A sudden outbreak of sanity seems to have taken hold Canada. Firstly the idea of a carbon tax appears to have been killed off for good:
Conservatives kill carbon tax
Conservatives have kiboshed a carbon tax, Environment Minister Peter Kent confirmed Thursday.
“It’s off the table,” he told reporters Thursday after accepting an award from World Wildlife Fund International on behalf of Parks Canada.
“There’s no expectation of cap-and-trade continentally in the near or medium future.”
…and then this:
Government delays pulling plug on old-fashioned light bulbs
Tories propose pushing deadline to 2014 over lack of alternatives to incandescents
The Conservative government wants to postpone pulling the plug on incandescent light bulbs, saying it needs more time to allow for technological innovations and to deal with concerns about compact fluorescent lamps.
(H/T to Ross McKitrick, who offers to send a real estate guide, and to Bishop-Hill, where this post was pinched from, but good news needs sharing)
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“but I’ve spent time in Canada, and it’s a little too chilly for my blood most of the year.”
Haven’t you heard? with global warming Canada will be the new Mexico. forget Cancun. next big tourist hot spot wil be Tuktuyaaqtuuq. ice in drinks outlawed in California starting in 2015. cold beer will soon be a thing of the past.
“climate sanity”
It has a nice ring to it.
Tom Moriarty
http://climatesanity.wordpress.com/
Yeah! Some sanity here in the Great White North. 🙂 But I have to wonder… Hasn’t the manufacture of standard incandescent bulbs been phased out? I don’t think any incandescent bulbs are made in Canada anymore.
The Canadian dollar may be stronger but we have a lot more of ours. Anyway, will Customs allow me to pack one suitcase full of bulbs and another full of OTC meds?
On November 17th 2010 the Canadian Senate killed the Climate Change Accountability Act. Today, the government simply uttered a forgone conclusion. Climate Change (Global Warming) or whatever euphemism you want to call socialism-by-way-of-green-religion, is no longer a credible pursuit amongst thinking people…. and the Canadian public agreed.. and gave Prime Minster Harper a majority 3 weeks ago. He has wasted no time in stabbing that zombie corpse religion in its brain.
Thank you Harper. Now watch the dominoes fall.
Paul H asked about Canadian incandescents.
My bulbs are marked Made in China, a few are from USA, don’t think Canada has had indigenous bulbs for a few years. But I will keep stockpileing.
Skeptic says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:16 pm
There is something worst than that… The MSM will put up Liz May everywhere and we will hear from her all the time now that she has a seat in the Commons. Good thing I got rid of cable.
Bob Tisdale says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
‘I dislike compact flourescents, so do the fixtures in this house, but I’ve spent time in Canada, and it’s a little too chilly for my blood most of the year. I guess I’ll tough it out here with the CFLs here in the U.S.’
Bob, you may be interested in knowing that we are now offering tourist junkets to our warm Arctic region. The best package offers complimentary iced drinks and a comfortable chaise lounge overlooking a scenic narrows in the North West Passage. From this vantage point tourists can watch the last of our polar bears dining on chilled snorkelers.
Yes! After the decimation of the Liberal party and the Conservative win with majority, we all knew it was bound to happen, but not that quickly.
Our Prime Minister Harper is the quintessential “speak softly, but carry a big stick” man (Roosevelt’s quote?). He has been deferential to your President …in a manner of someone tiptoeing around a volatie madman with a hatchet… smiling, not stirring the waters, but doing his thing quietly, such as not taking your admin’s economic advice (thank goodness, we are weathering things nicely), quietly but solidly backing Israel just as Obama was trying to put the screws on it, and totally ignoring the enviro nuttiness of the ageing hipsters in your current government.
Hang on, Yanks and Aussies, the craziness will be over for you soon too. As for you, my Brit brothers, looks like you got a long haul ahead …but you folks are always welcome up here in Canada!
It would be also good for the Quebec Prime minister to change is mind on the Carbon tax. In Quebec we have a carbon tax, its not a cap and trade but they tax many stuff for there carbon footprint to finance public transportation that cost us a fortune because there are lots of money being spend in useless ways.
The old minority gov’t has put off the end of 75w / 100w incandescents.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/decision-canada/Government+delays+turning+lights+incandescent+bulbs/4805533/story.html
Maybe the new majority government will rescind the ban completely.
Bob Tisdale says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
‘I dislike compact flourescents, so do the fixtures in this house, but I’ve spent time in Canada, and it’s a little too chilly for my blood most of the year. I guess I’ll tough it out here with the CFLs here in the U.S.’
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Just come in July or August: at times in southern Ontario our temperatures are indistinguishable from NYC or Philly, not noted for their cool outdoor comfort in the summer. If that’s not warm enough for you, Toronto has a substantial UHI away from the lake.
In the meantime, we still have a small matter of getting rid of the ‘green’-obsessed Liberals in the Ontario provincial legislature, who are promising more of the same if re-elected – higher taxes, higher energy rates, and more expensive ‘green’ energy. Even when (not if) they are voted out this fall, the damage they have inflicted to our energy economy will linger for many years.
I wish Ross McKitrick would consider a foray into politics. His National Post article was a masterpiece of sanity and elucidation. We need more truly science-literate politicians with good numeracy skills.
James Sexton says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Great, now I gotta go get my light bulbs from Canada……
What’s wrong with a trip to Canada? We’ve got lots of good beer here and many good people to drink it with. 🙂
If only we could see that kind of reason in Australia. We have a government who has signed an economic suicide pact with the dangerously naive and ideological greens who are led by a man who is certain there is a media conspiracy theory against him.
Now we just need the Obama administration to approve the Keystone XL pipeline so we can start moving another 350,000 barrels per day into the U.S. . The Canadian side of the project has been complete for about a year and a half! Also, Go Canucks!
Further to Ross McKitrick’s post and his article in the Financial Post, it seems the US is providing a 1.3 billion dollar load guarantee to decimate 30 square miles of Oregon in order to produce power for Southern California. Oregon continues to get Californxxxated. Nameplate capacity – 845 megawatts, US$ 2 billion estimated cost, 1.3 billion in government guarantees and GE gets a 1.4 billion turbine contract.
http://www.climatespectator.com.au/news/us-awards-us13bn-loan-guarantee-wind-project
Canada is so far gone, I’m not sure a little sanity can save her. Still a chance for US, but a slim one.
R. Shearer says:
May 19, 2011 at 4:01 pm
The Canadian dollar may be stronger but we have a lot more of ours.
Don’t you mean China has your money!? /sarc
I never mourned the loss of the 100w incandescent in and of itself. I’ve never used them. I mourned the loss of the freedom to use them. This is from the EUSSR!
DaveE.
Kev-in-UK,
The place for you is Alberta but only if you’re willing to work for a paltry $200k – $250k per year. Enginoodles are highly sought after as are technical trades. Suggest you peruse the careers section at http://www.rigzone.com
i was so thankful that they got elected with a majority too, now we can also get rid of that stupid gun law that made criminals out of many by just owning a gun.
BC, time to drop your tax now too! export Suzuki out into the pacific while your at it…
Paul Coppin says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Bob Tisdale says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I dislike compact flourescents, so do the fixtures in this house, but I’ve spent time in Canada, and it’s a little too chilly for my blood most of the year. I guess I’ll tough it out here with the CFLs here in the U.S.
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Wuss. 🙂
You beat me to it, but why stop here? I was gonna say “Wussypants” but who’s nit picking. I think Bob is skeered of the light bulb cops….
As I gaze at the weird Kurdish morning haze, I realize I’m about to burn a whack of jet fuel back to Calgary to find my Conservative MP and give her a big kiss (figuratively, of course!). Dr. Fruit Fly is having a cow right now. Maurice Strong is rolling over and looking ever more like a bicycle rack. Let’s hope that Tim Ball gets a breath of fresh air; in fact, I’ll be writing Mr Harper.
@James Baldwin “Now I have to get my light bulbs in Canada.”
Don’t worry, I’ll mail them to you.
As a Canadian I am in a very happy place today.
““It’s off the table,” he told reporters Thursday after accepting an award from World Wildlife Fund International on behalf of Parks Canada.”
Howta rub it in the WWF’s mug. OMG!
I had a sober wake-up call yesterday on the importance of smashing this carbon hysteria. I had a heart attack.
One of the main things they gave me was supplemental oxygen. As a physiologist who has done a carbon dioxide literature search in the last year, I know that carbon dioxide is the main stimulus for breathing, not just oxygen. I know that chickens and rodents thrive better with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide than ambient. And I know that preemies are helped to thrive with up to 7% CO2 in their air. Chances are, I should have had 1% to 5% CO2 in that supplemental oxygen.
The carbon hysteria almost totally prevents the kind of research needed to determine the optimal content of CO2 in medical oxygen. If I am right, then that blindness kills millions of Americans, and Canadians, and Europeans every year.