By Daryl on 3/26/2008 1:24 PM

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh go the wind turbines that are popping up slowly across the world's wind corridors, with demand growing for them new production facilities are being created, with all the green jobs that environmental lobbyists promised. The transition into the new green economy has began and the promise that we will all be stronger for it especially economically. So lets look at where the wind turbines are currently being constructed now , how long they have been operating, and where expansion plans are for the major European and North American players. For several years I have been hearing from environmental groups, policy think tanks and politicians that a green economy will be a stronger economy and the employment opportunities will skyrocket as a result. It has been seven years since I started researching this topic and I seem to be still waiting for all the green economy benefits, especially as I watch the world's biggest economy fall into recession and drag ... Read More »

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By Daryl on 3/20/2008 8:31 PM

We have had a long cold winter here in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere and that has got me to thinking, what if the world cools off and returns to the temperatures of our great grandfathers or even worse we start sliding even lower? Just as a hypothetical exercise, I am not saying there is any basis for this other than my own curiosity as to the effects. I just could not help thinking what would happen if the temperatures start trending lower and we move into a prolonged cooling period. We are still going to have a changed climate, just not the changes we expected. So I am wondering how that would impact us and what does it would mean to our society.

If the entire underlying motive for all the actions taken to date in the arena of global warming mitigation vanishes over the next five years we will be confronted with a whole set of legacy problems to deal with. What will the main effects be, given the current state of the situation in regards to mitigation to stop global warm ... Read More »

By Daryl on 3/20/2008 8:28 PM

My home province of Beautiful British Columbia just, on February 19, 2008, made history in North America by implementing the first Carbon Tax on fossil fuels this week. This tax is on all fossil fuels, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, propane and diesel. This budget has been met with great enthusiasm by environmental groups, been rejected on the Federal level and sparked outrage in northern communities. So lets take a look at the budget and see what this is really all about and what we can expect in the coming years as the budget runs until 2012.

First lets take a look at the reasoning behind the tax. Carole Taylor, the Finance Minister said "The principle is simple, Tax carbon-emitting fuels to discourage their use, and give the money back to people, back to businesses, so they have control. They can make their own choices about how the tax affects them."

I am not really sure that this is as simple ... Read More »

By Daryl on 3/19/2008 11:21 AM

A group of three environmental groups has launched a frivolous and money draining lawsuit against the United States Government about the missing of deadlines to place the Polar Bear (Ursus Martimus) on the endangered species list. The plaintiffs; the National Resources Defence Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and Greenpeace. The basis for the claim that polar bears are endangered supported by their own "scientific research" ... Read More »

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