tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post9160280232071208473..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Carbon Taxes are Fine But They Won't Protect YouThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19723803461475066892018-10-16T10:31:22.325-07:002018-10-16T10:31:22.325-07:00I really like Peter Lowry's blog Babel-on-The-...I really like Peter Lowry's blog Babel-on-The-Bay .. Georgian Bay, Collingwood area. Its one of those 'always reads' He caught this wondrous 'fail' re bitumin reportage plus a bonus boo boo - http://babelonthebay.com/2018/10/16/bloomberg-boo-boos-big/the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-11222261935937697552018-10-16T10:08:58.774-07:002018-10-16T10:08:58.774-07:00-------- below per your request ----------
------...<br />-------- below per your request ---------- <br />-------- can delete after copying - at your discretion ------<br /><br />https://thedespatch.wordpress.com/ This is a research blog regarding one of Canada's least known heroes, Ann Harvey. It represents my efforts to pull together the known facts of her actions.. as well as known facts regarding those that she along with her father, her younger brother and their Newfoundland dog rescued<br /><br />https://tod.aminus3.com/image/2016-01-04.html This link plops you into the middle of my personal photo blog. Yes, there are the odd commercial images scattered among some 450 plus shots, but primarily this is personal, informal documentary of the experience of 'Being Canadian' and the sense of being immersed in Mother Nature & the natural world of the Canadian Environment. Also a number of images from Turks & Caicos, Mexico, Dubai, San Fran, London etc - Upper right are controls - Home takes one to the last entry I uploaded & you can proceed via 'Next' or 'Previous' etc - Archive takes one to a small clickable collection - Portfolio shows all in postage stamp & are clickable to regular size 72 DPI - Community leads to thousands of serious amateur members around the world - the main Aminus site is free to join. Any image of mine you visit is also clickable for its detailed caption re location or species etc - the provided link starts you on a photo with such a caption - do this by clicking the minimal title underneath the photo - use the 'back button' a lot to get back to previous etc - use Portfolio to browse<br /><br />Currently online is a fiction novel, though not a final draft <br />Diamond Walker' https://diamondwalker.wordpress.com (damn ! They put advertising on Wordpress now ? Be sure to skip the modem ad and go to 'full page' where the Chapter Index is on right side<br />Its set in beautiful British Columbia, primarily on Vancouver Island and in Vancouver. I sent that to you several years back - but you were pretty aggro'd at Stephen Harper et al at the time & threatening to ride off on the BMW for a while.. I have a sequel 'Hunter Walker' underway that starts in Afghanistan & rapidly moves to Banff, Alberta<br /><br />As always tod1951@hotmail is my general backchannel contact - though I am textable - tweetable @salamanderhorde - messenger capable etcthe salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-2024255922221718822018-10-15T17:38:56.280-07:002018-10-15T17:38:56.280-07:00
Owen, exposing the public to private-sector infra...<br />Owen, exposing the public to private-sector infrastructure plans is to leave us all entirely vulnerable to vulture capitalism.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-1936416232925715552018-10-15T17:37:45.654-07:002018-10-15T17:37:45.654-07:00
Toby, ending bitumen subsidies (that might just i...<br />Toby, ending bitumen subsidies (that might just include the Trudeau memorial pipeline) and charging the industry for its waste and consumption of natural capital (i.e. water) would shut down the whole of Athabasca. The contortions Ottawa and Edmonton go through to make bitumen appear a profitable resource are ridiculous. At the end of the day the significance of dilbit is political, not economic, but the risks of that bubble bursting are truly economic. The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-53736809230508709542018-10-15T17:34:57.489-07:002018-10-15T17:34:57.489-07:00Jay, that's an impressive "to do" li...<br />Jay, that's an impressive "to do" list. Now, consider how furious so many of our fellow citizens become at the suggestion of another four cents a litre at the pump and then multiply that by your list. Not particularly encouraging, eh?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-2182194097993330502018-10-15T14:52:37.070-07:002018-10-15T14:52:37.070-07:00Our infractructure is crumbling. Yet we want the p...Our infractructure is crumbling. Yet we want the private sector to rebuild it. Only government can do the job -- if it chooses to.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-70534950194573911742018-10-15T12:54:25.326-07:002018-10-15T12:54:25.326-07:00Cheryl, at Balloon Juice has started a new feature...Cheryl, at Balloon Juice has started a new feature, covering AGW,<br /><br />An initial list of "things to do/discuss" has been identified. The short list is:<br /><br />Climate Models<br /><br />Where is the tipping point?<br />We have enough data now that we can move past the models into doing time series analysis and estimation. The economist time series guy who helped the climate scientists on that is Peter Phillips of Yale. (Disentangling greenhouse warming and aerosol cooling to reveal Earth’s climate sensitivity)<br />Electrical Generation<br /><br />Modernization of the grid – Smart grid<br />Solar<br />Wind<br />Nuclear<br />Regulation<br />Transportation<br /><br />Air travel<br />Mass transit<br />Eliminate the internal combustion engine<br />Shipping<br />Agriculture<br /><br />High metabolism plants to soak up all the CO2?<br />BBC – Would you give up beef to save the planet?<br />Forestry for carbon sequestration<br />Ocean fertilization<br />Soil for carbon sequestration<br />Indoor farming<br />Livestock production<br />Mining<br /><br />Fracking<br />Cement manufacture, substitution<br />Economy<br /><br />Jobs created and saved<br />Economic opportunity for women<br />Fossil fuel divestment<br />Balancing economic development for poor countries against energy usage<br />Transition – natural gas as a transitional fuel<br />Occupational transitions<br />Governmental Actions<br /><br /><br />VOTE DEMOCRATIC<br />Carbon tax<br />Carbon trading<br />Importance of collective action rather than consumer choices<br />Funding for research<br />California as model (links here and here and here)<br />Establishing virtuous outcomes through regulation, positive feedback loops<br />Updates on currently proposed legislation, at the federal or state level, and why it’s important for the climate. Push to call congresspeople.<br />What we can call on our individual cities to do. What policies should we be talking to our city councilors about? What has worked well in other places? How do we help people realize that these changes can be cost effective?<br />Changing code requirements for more efficient buildings<br />Could there be an environmental equivalent of ActBlue?<br />Mitigation<br /><br />Coastal infrastructure<br />Displaced persons<br />Population growth<br />Denser cities<br />Wood as construction material<br />Have one less child if you’re planning to have more.<br />Switch to a plant based diet (or mostly plant based)<br />Banning all 2-stroke engines<br />Suggestions for good climate change fighting organizations to donate to or volunteer for.<br />How to make individual changes easier, or how to get more people involved in doing them.<br />Communicating the Issues<br /><br />Effective viral methods like the Parkland students, the Beto campaign, and how the annoying Avenatti gets headlines.<br />Effective storytelling<br />Fox News as a problem<br />Coastline maps projecting sea-level rise<br />Some sort of recognition and memorialization of each island as it disappears. They should not be consigned to the dustbin of history.<br />A graphic that breaks down how Americans consume energy<br />Downsides of global warming – local and regional impacts, crop yields and food, ocean acidification<br />Resources<br /><br />William Nordhaus, who just won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics<br />Weitzman and Stern<br />“Chasing Ice”<br />Reddit has a subsection titled “ELI5”. Explain Like I’m 5. (Example and example)<br />Marvel Avengers<br />Drawdown<br />Michael Coney’s novel “Rax”<br /><br />Jay Farquharsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03335226520940843630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-54664081465364185132018-10-15T11:07:38.583-07:002018-10-15T11:07:38.583-07:00The subsidies issue is important. It accomplishes...The subsidies issue is important. It accomplishes nothing to tax consumers at the pump for carbon when the money is used to subsidize the oil and gas companies as is done in BC. My impression is that ending the direct and indirect subsidies would put many carbon companies out of business and the others would have to raise their prices thus causing much the same pressure as a tax. <br />Tobynoreply@blogger.com