Only in Canada would an Eastern politician refer to two billion dollars of Albertans’ hard-earned money as “chump change.”
Year: 2012
Mitigation focus of UN climate meetings an albatross around the neck of poor countries seeking adaptation funding
Developing countries must insist that adaptation negotiations, and the agreements that eventually ensue, be totally separated from the so far fruitless mitigation wars. Not only will this greatly simplify discussions, but the chances of significant climate adaptation agreements will be much enhanced.
Alberta Fast Tracking Highway 63 Expansion
The Government of Alberta has announced that it will expedite plans to compete the twinning of Highway 63.
Climate change activist pollsters at it again
New public opinion survey “intellectual baby talk”
On Thursday, October 18, 2012 a new report was released entitled “Climate Change in the American mind – Americans’ Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in September 2012”. The report and the public opinion survey it discussed were produced by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. These are the same people who produced the bias-riddled October 9, 2012 Climate Change in the American Mind report about another of their recent polls, that one concerning U.S. public opinion about the connection between extreme weather and global warming. I wrote about the problems with that survey for PJMedia out of Los Angeles here.
As was the case with the October 9th survey, climate change campaigners and their allies in mainstream media quickly reported uncritically on the October 18th report:
“Poll: Growing Majority Of Americans Understand The Earth Is Warming And Humans Are The Cause” proclaimed the alarmist site “Think Progress”.
“Americans increasingly believe in global warming, Yale report says”, blared the Los Angeles Times.
“70% of Americans say global warming is real” exclaimed the Detroit Free Press.
But the new Yale/George Mason study is a seriously flawed report describing yet another biased and meaningless public opinion survey. Like practically all other polls on the subject, they failed to ask respondents the only questions that actually matter from a public policy perspective, questions like the following (which must be asked in this order):
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Don’t be Distracted by Sketchy Statistics
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The Green Thing
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
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Real Road Danger: Discreet Texting
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The Energy Revolution Part One: The Biggest Losers
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Media Release – Distracted Driving Legislation Failing to Make the Roads Safer
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