Green-Scam

These green traffic schemes are making life miserable for ordinary people.

Could this finally be the end of the Low Traffic Neighbourhood? Over the past three years, so-called LTNs, which are designed to decrease traffic on residential streets, have sprung up across the UK. Prime minister Rishi Sunak announced a review into LTNs over the weekend, while speaking to the Sunday Telegraph. Sunak’s comments followed transport secretary Mark Harper’s announcement that central government would no longer fund new LTNs in England.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair is the quintessential Davos man. In the sixteen years since he left office, he has criss-crossed the globe, giving speeches and advising sometimes unsavory clients. And yet this week he has delivered a dissenting comment on the issue that his fellow conference-hoppers spend a lot of time worrying about.

Blair has caused a bit of ruckus in the UK this week thanks to an interview with center-left magazine the New Statesman in which the former Labour Party leader questions the wisdom of unilateral action on climate change. Blair called climate change “the single biggest global challenge” before saying of UK efforts to cut carbon emissions: “Don’t ask us to do a huge amount when, frankly, whatever we do in Britain is not really going to [affect] climate change.

Time and again we are told that in pursuit of a cleaner planet, we all have to be miserable

There are few things better in life than taking a hot shower at the end of a long day, crawling into a freshly made bed and passing out into the deepest sleep ever. There are also few things that ruin this uniquely cozy experience more quickly than stepping into a shower with dinky water pressure.

If Ottawa can’t get the small stuff right, why should Canadians trust the federal government with the big things? This is what comes to mind as Ottawa’s ban on single-use plastic checkout bags settles in on Calgary.

In December, plastic checkout bags – along with plastic cutlery, foodservice ware, stir sticks and (most) straws – will be banned for sale. Caught up in the impending prohibition are Calgary Co-op stores, a grocery chain focused on local and western Canadian products that sells compostable bags at the till for 15 cents each.

SINGAPORE – Canada will likely publish the final regulations of a plan to cap and cut greenhouse gases from the oil and gas sector by mid-2024, its environment minister told Reuters on Thursday.

The government will table draft regulations on the plan by October and expects to publish the final regulations by mid-2024 after consultations with provinces, indigenous groups, civil society and industry, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told Reuters.

The Washington Post has released a story headlined “Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt.”  Highlights of the article include seals finding waters too hot, there is a radical change in climatic conditions, temperatures are rising in the arctic, and glaciers are disappearing.  Same old story, and I do mean an old story — this particular item appeared in 1922.

Many years ago, I was at a San Francisco Bay Area science exhibit with the kids. One wall was covered with a single wall-sized bar chart showing how much the San Francisco Bay would rise in the future thanks to climate change. Panicked parents around me were warning their children about this deathly future. I was the only one who noticed that the chart was a huge blow-up of an image originally done on a scale using millimeters. If you dig deep, a lot of “climate science” plays those games—and today, it’s The Lancet that created a chart that plays games with the scale.

At this time, the attack on fossil fuels, particularly coal, is at a crescendo. In North America with the dishonestly named Inflation Reduction Act and the European Union with its Green Deal, key government institutions are doubling their efforts to subsidise renewable energy and force the closure of coal.