But not like I hate seals.

h/t Brent Weston

Finally!

Police make arrest in Canadian pipeline bombings
Police arrested a man Friday in connection with a series of oil and gas pipeline bombings in northeastern British Columbia.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector Tim Shields said a man in his 50s or 60s was taken into custody on a farm in the western Alberta town of Hythe. Police did not release the suspect’s name pending the filing of formal charges.
About a dozen officers conducted a search of the farm, Shield said.

Oh, why it’s Wiebo Ludwig, again.
Ford owners can follow developments here.
h/t Dave H.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do? Amid rejoicing at the NYT;

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing a Bush-era limit that ran counter to scientific recommendations.
The new limits — which are presented as a range — will likely put hundreds more counties nationwide in violation, a designation that will require them to find additional ways to clamp down on pollution or face government sanctions, most likely the loss of federal highway dollars.
The tighter standards will cost tens of billions of dollars to implement, but will ultimately save billions in avoided emergency room visits, premature deaths, and missed work and school days, the EPA said.
[…]
While smog has been a long-term problem in parts of Texas, California, and along the northeast Coast, the new standards could affect counties in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, the Dakotas, Kansas, Minnesota and Iowa for the first time based on EPA data.

Yes, those Dakotas.

Or, maybe not.

h/t Tim Blair, who has more.

Dear Britain,
Now you know.
Yours truly,
Saskatchewan

(bumped)
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Times, Jan 3, 2010 – “The UK has 259 onshore wind farms, of which 108 are in England, 91 in Scotland, 33 in Wales and 27 in Northern Ireland. Planning permission has been granted for a further 222 and there are plans for another 270 after that.”
Express, Jan.5, 2010 – “SHIVERING Britain faces the prospect of gas supply shortages as the worst cold spell in 30 years keeps a stranglehold on the country.”
(Of course, we coulda warned ’em that the wind don’t blow when it’s cold, but what would a bunch of prairie hicks know about the reliability of wind power, anyway?)
Update: More…

First shipment of unsold Al Gore books leaves dock in British relief effort… developing …..

More at Boing Boing.
Related: Strangers On My Flight
(h/t Jim)

SDA gets results!

Our goal is to entertain and engage the imagination of children with our stuffed animals, our store environment, and online. Our intention with the Polar Bear story was to inspire children, through the voices of our animal characters, to make a difference in their own individual ways. We did not intend to politicize the topic of global climate change or offend anyone in any way. The webisodes concluded this week with Santa successfully leaving on his journey to deliver gifts around the world. The webisodes will no longer be available on the site.

I get the sense that, for as important as it is to yell at elected representatives who endorse policies that damage our interests, it’s the negative feedback directed towards AGW promoting corporations that may produce the most results per complaint over the long run.
Unlike their counterparts in mass media, most sensible retailers understand that the consumer can, and will, reject a product tainted by political agenda. A few angry letters can alert an executive that the global warming “consensus” ain’t what she used to be.
An update from Ed Driscoll, in the comments. “For what it’s worth, the three Build-A-Bear videos that Hot Air linked to are all still up on YouTube, where any kid can, and will stumble across them.”

Not just antonyms anymore!

Carbon prices plunged yesterday in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, dealing a blow to the credibility of the European Union’s carbon-trading scheme.
[…]
Carbon traders blamed the price fall on the Copenhagen conference, which produced an accord among the world’s biggest developed and developing countries to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, but omitted details on what those limits would be. Governments now have a month to submit formal pledges on how far they will reduce their carbon output.
“This [accord] is a very disappointing outcome,” said Trevor Sikorski, director at Barclays Capital. “I see nothing here that should drive investment in low-carbon technology.” He said that it was “bearish for the market and bearish for the world”.

SDA gets results!

“Block heaters”.

The grass was green,
The oceans riz,
I wonder where the islanders is.*

“Carbon trading” and “fraud” – not just synonyms anymore!

Denmark is the centre of a comprehensive tax scam involving CO2 quotas, in which the cheats exploit a so-called ‘VAT carrousel’, reports Ekstra Bladet newspaper.
Police and authorities in several European countries are investigating scams worth billions of kroner, which all originate in the Danish quota register. The CO2 quotas are traded in other EU countries.
Denmark’s quota register, which the Energy Agency within the Climate and Energy Ministry administers, is the largest in the world in terms of personal quota registrations. It is much easier to register here than in other countries, where it can take up to three months to be approved.

Critics often compare today’s carbon trade to the tulip bubble of the 1600’s. I disagree, for the two differ in a fundamental way. When a trader placed a tulip on the auction block, he actually had a tulip to sell.

In other news, polar bears are eating their young., topped with Beluga caviar and a Coca Cola chaser.
Overpopulation is an ugly thing.
[1] – Not making that up.

Before the College of Physicians and Surgeons have a chance to get their pants on;

The investigator discovered, instead, that Dr. O’Connor’s public statements about the health of Fort Chipewyan’s residents contained “mistruths, inaccuracies and unconfirmed information.”
He had reported five cases of a rare bile duct cancer called cholangiocarcinoma in the community of 1,200. There were two. The doctor had told reporters of a man who had died of colon cancer at the young age of 33. It was fiction. “No patient died at age 33 from colon cancer as reported by Dr. O’Connor,” says the report.
“These weren’t misdiagnoses; they were diagnoses that never occurred,” says Hakique Virani, one of the three Health Canada physicians who lodged the original complaint with the college. “Our concern was, this is a guy who is saying there are a huge number — five in a community that small is a huge number — of rare cancers and there were outward associations being drawn between environmental concerns and cancers.
“Basically you’re telling a group of people that you’re likely to get these rare cancers and there’s nothing you can do about it because of the place you live, the water that you drink and the food that you eat. If it’s true, you’re darn-straight to advocate. If not, you’re really abusing the trust of an entire community.”

CPSA Investigation Report (pdf)
h/t Mario

I’d be happier featuring video of current world leadership in prevention. Outside of Vaclav Klaus, though, I can’t think of any.

Deniers of the ‘Nation unite! A bit of fun to go with your morning coffee. (The survey will take a few minutes).
h/t Scott.

“Andrew Richmond at reikman@gmail.com writes…”

Daily Mail – A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination.
Skynews – Four months ago another UN worker also believed to be British fell from a similar height in the same building, it has been reported.”

“Thailand. Happiness on Earth.”
“Ireland. The Island of Memories…”
“Switzerland. The Undiscovered Country.”