I’m in Cairns, Australia, in mid-winter on a balmy mid 20oC, somewhat overcast day. The local tourist economy seems a bit depressed, a product of the depressed world economy and the rising cost of an Australian vacation, but the Great… Read More »Climate change, Carbon taxes, and Responsible government
May 21st 2012. It’s sometimes nice to see your arguments vindicated, sometimes not so nice. In a post on 4th March, I pointed to the high environmental costs of Canada’s tar sands mining operations, and raised the question of why… Read More »Tar Sands Oil: Environmentally and Economically a Bad Deal for Canada. Meanwhile the Government strips away our capacity to know what is happening to our environment.
[Two hours after I posted this, I saw an article in the New Scientist. If anyone doubts that Canada’s government has a problem with environmental science, go read this article.] I was worried about the current Canadian meaning of ‘ethical’… Read More »Ethical oil, ethical government. What does ‘ethical’ mean and what does this have to do with ocean acidification?