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from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  Trying to stop the Swindle

Scientists are lobbying UK regulators to prevent the DVD distribution of a documentary that claims global warming is hoax. One of the scientists who is featured in the documentary now says the film is “as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War II.” Again: The guy who said ...   more »

View Article  Attention Catholics: Pope says get green!

I’m an Anglican but this Pope guy sounds like he’s got a plan

The Vatican yesterday added its voice to a rising chorus of warnings from churches around the world that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God's will, and that the one billion-strong Catholic church ...   more »

View Article  The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle

This evening, on another network’s national newscast, the contents of a British documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle”  were reported. Many readers of this blog have brought this film to my attention and, as it has been widely available from time to time on YouTube and elsewhere on the Web, I often open my mail client ...   more »

View Article  Waiting for a Green Plan

Just touched down in Toronto for the media lockup with Environment Minister John Baird. At that lockup Baird will detail the industrial regulations his government will  ring in in order to lower Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 and halve emissions of other pollutants. This is ...   more »

View Article  Baird on CTV's Question Period
On CTV's Question Period today, co-host Craig Oliver asked Environment Minister John Baird about his doom-and-gloom forecast if Canada commits to meeting its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol:
Oliver: Canadians can be forgiven if they don't know exactly who to believe on this issue. Disaster, if we do, disaster ...   more »
View Article  Montreal paper asks if it's green enough

Neat idea in The Montreal Gazette this morning. The newspaper looks at its own operation and grades itself on its own sustainability footprint. Reporter Marian Scott has a long piece inside the paper about her own paper and the newspaper business generally:

…we looked at every aspect of our business: ...   more »

View Article  Snowmobiling: Do it now ...

… cuz those trail networks are slowly going to disappear. So says the latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report will be released Friday but I (like tons of reporters around the world) got look at a final draft.

Here’s the story I wrote...   more »


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