… the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) announced on Oct. 21 that it will be ending carbon trading – the only purpose for which it was founded – this year.
Send a memo to your favourite public broadcaster. Apparently no one’s told them yet.
h/t Ward
The Sound Of Settled Science
A new Canadian-led study, testing the math used to estimate the greenhouse gas (GHG) output from belching, farting dairy cows, shows the current models either overshoot or undershoot the mark.
[…]
For example, the authors said, the “widely used” IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) equation, which predicts methane production based on energy intake of the cow, can’t distinguish the effect of a higher energy intake on methane due to a rise in feed intake level, from that due to a rise in dietary fat content at the same feed intake level.
“A higher feed intake will increase methane production. A rise in dietary fat content will decrease methane production,” said Ellis, now doing her post-doctorate study at Wageningen.
“There is a lot of concern right now about the impact of farming and human life in general on the environment. The prediction accuracy of these equations is small, and the equations are not suitable to quantify methane production of cows.”
(*Random Media Vocabulary Note: Not via Canadian Cattlefarmers)
The Politics Of PotashCorp
One of our long time SDA readers writes;
As a long time advocate and supporter of the party I believe the core Reform message on this BHP matter is not being told. Non renewable resources are of Provincial jurisdiction (see section 92A of the BNA act below).
When a duly elected Premier of a province is leading his/her province on an issue that is of the provinces sole jurisdiction Canada should respect same. Example where this has been done was bill 101 in Quebec. The Liberals when in power have trampled over provincial rights for the last 40 years. I thought from the beginning that we would have a better stronger Canada when sections 91 and 92 of the BNA act are respected.
Canada has crept into the exclusive powers of the Provinces particularly, Quebec and that simply leads to separation sentiments. Another clear example is the NEP in Alberta. Nothing good ever happens when Canada tramples on anyones rights.
The investment Act of Canada should be amended to respect the BNA act.
Relevant excerpts from the BNA are posted in the extended entry. That ought to jump start* the week.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
Update: Looks like he got the mercy sentence.
“Agent Orange of monetary policies”
More on QE2, at American Thinker;
The Keynesians finally got their wish. The Federal Reserve plans to inject $600 billion of the most caustic debt imaginable into the economy. […] In the hope of generating inflation, the central bank is going to enable deficit spending by buying treasury bonds. You read that correctly: the primary goal is to erode the value of the dollar, and we get to watch our currency and wealth literally dissolve before our eyes.
International fallout…
h/t Maz2
Reader Tips
Tonight, the superb Carmina Quartet (L-R Mathias Enderle, Wendy Champney, Susanne Frank, and Stephan Goerner) plays Luigi Boccherini’s Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D, and the 4th movement of Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 73/4.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Y2Kyoto: The Never-Ending Story
Heating up the Heat Island:
It never ends, does it? The corruption involved in the basic science of Global Warming is stunning … it gets to where nothing, no utterance that comes from the IPCC or its handful of key “scientists” can be trusted.
Y2Kyoto: I’m A Denier
h/t Bart and a half dozen others…
Reader Tips
Tonight we get to watch some hardworking border collies doing their level best to get it right. Hosted by Radio Scotland presenter Robbie Shepherd – don’t forget to roll those R‘s when you say his name – here’s the second semifinal from the Grampian Sheepdog Trials held at the Balcairn Farm in Aberdeenshire.
Herd those Reader Tips into the comments.
What A Race
Zenyatta and Blame battle for the wire.
Also recommended: Goldikova’s three-peat and next years’ leading Kentucky Derby prospect Uncle Mo, in the Juvenile.
“I love Ricky Bobby too. Shake and bake!”
Shattering the Absurdities/Second Record
Yes … that Chappaquiddick:
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“As a 20-something unknown, my first weekly column (at the Toronto Star) had paid $200. Having since written a book and developed a national profile I’d replied that I couldn’t accept less money a decade later. Advised that Quebecor was unable to afford my counteroffer of $500, I’d smiled and said ‘thanks, but no thanks.’
Looking uncomfortable, Kory assured me that those were the bad old days. Matters were different now.
I told him I’d think about it.“
h/t Fred
Hockey’s Most Decorated
h/t Bill W.
May I Ask You A Personal Question?
(If you don’t get this, that’s ok. You probably still have liquid assets.)
Reader Tips
From 10 am to 1 pm, day after day, the sound of Beethoven’s music being beautifully played on an upright piano can be heard coming from suite #6 in a north London apartment building. From director Malcolm Clarke’s short documentary film Alice Dancing Under The Gallows, here’s a look at the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, the ineffably beautiful Alice Herz-Sommer.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
An Interview With Thomas Sowell
I Went Out To A Horse Race
And a hockey game broke out. The first day of the Breeders Cup begins with jockey fistfight after the first race. Game on!
(Webcast at the link, cable coverage on TSN and ESPN.)
By request, the Calvin Borel fight video.
Deep Impact
Politico – MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay after POLITICO reported that he made three campaign contributions to Democratic candidates.
Envy From Across the Pond
God I wish I were an American now:
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