tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post7805286273506828239..comments2024-03-29T04:56:02.252-07:00Comments on Paying attention: Putting a price on greenhouse gas cutsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-66616830142228754892009-11-06T12:35:00.100-08:002009-11-06T12:35:00.100-08:00Jaccard has no political agenda? What hogwash!!!
...Jaccard has no political agenda? What hogwash!!!<br /><br />The report was written by Jaccard's associates for a high priest of the new age "renewable" religion, David Suzuki and a notorious Gordo supporter. Weren't the two of them spewing Gordo's Green Tax nonsense trashing the NDP's cap n'trade at every opportunity on every MSM outlet possible. I note that not one local outlet, has published Nobel Prize winner in economics Paul Krugman's series of articles in the New York Times trashing Jaccard's Green Tax, thoroughly discrediting the Chicago school theories expounded in the Suzuki paper.<br /><br />The reports rejection of nuclear power using nonsensical argument is typical of these type of biased reports, several all similar which have come out in the last few weeks.<br /><br />Ironically, it's DaGucci associate James Hoggan's book exposing Big Oil's finance of the Denialist campaign, that shows the tactics Big Oil uses on its anti nuke campaign. One of their favorites is the no nukes fake study like this one released to compliant editors and pundits (Willcocks) in the mainstream media. These studies all emanating from Big Oil funded astroturfers like DaGucci, quote each others bull as fact, use the same tired arguments, and come to the usual conclusion.<br /><br />This critique of a Big Oil funded turfer article on the front page of a massively Big Oil funded magazine fits DaGucc's article almost perfectly.<br /><br />http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/11/03/wws-2030-critique/<br /><br />Here's a debunking of another similar report from the WWF.<br /><br />http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/10/wwf-funds-another-biased-climate-change.html<br /><br />Where DaGucci deviates from the normal is his wholehearted embrace of clean coal a deadly and toxic method of generating power with hundreds of millions of people worldwide now sickened and dead from its radioactive dust, mercury, and arsenic wastes. This discredited and foolish waste of money is just a politicians way of keeping donations rollin' in.<br /><br />http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/09/23/carbon-capture-study.html<br /><br />He also uses a 20 cent a kwh figure for nuclear when costs are veering to less than 1 cents for new mass produced nukes. Areva's recent Ontario bid was $24 billion for 60 years of 3.3 gigawatts in nukes all costs considered which works out to 1.5 cents a kwh.<br /><br />http://www.thestar.com/article/668157<br /><br />The Areva reactor cost of $4 billion each is double the predicted $1000 a kw for mass produced nukes and recent costs coming in from new Indian nuclear plants.<br /><br />Germany has already wasted 10 years and $100 billion dollars on DaGucci's wind power and has not reduced its greenhouse emissions one iota. To help with its new found addiction to Russian gas, it is planning a massive build of dirty coal plants to meet its baseload power requirements.<br /><br />The Canadian nuclear industry with a $150 billion investment in mass produced nuclear power brought in over a few years and paid for by quickly weaning us off the $100 billion the we spend annually on fossil fuels could with a World War Two scale effort here eliminate fossil fuel use - a two year payback period. <br /><br />Old generation nuclear waste is used as fuel for Gen IV reactors eliminating the waste problem.<br /><br />The conversion from fossil fuel to nuclear is cheap and with the current recession the industrial capacity is there. It eliminates our air pollution, creates a huge employment boosting domestic and export industry, and makes our economy far more competitive than the renewable crippled US and Europe. Even the deniers here would go for it. We can do this.<br /><br />Whether it was making sure George Bush got elected by supporting Green Leader Ralph Nader, reelecting Canwest/Gordo and Harpo, or driving us right over that as little as ten years civilization ending Climate/Peak oil crisis with their silly "renewable" religion, by supporting Big Coal/Oil's fight against nuclear power, the new age “renewable” priests like DaGucc seem bound and determined to kill lots of folks in very big ways.sethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-89489845250545531622009-11-04T08:58:29.466-08:002009-11-04T08:58:29.466-08:00Lower income taxes and higher carbon taxes will in...Lower income taxes and higher carbon taxes will increase inequality. At a time when we should be worried about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer we're going to change our tax system to make it even more regressive.<br /><br />That will in the end cause our society more pain than global warming.Franknoreply@blogger.com