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Emissions and the Tar Sands

By ⋅ April 12, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

I’ve been a little baffled by the tar sands’ villainization in the climate literature for some time. While a few photographs can clearly show that the tar sands have dire impacts on the local environment (as a recent National Geographic special showed), I haven’t really understood why the tar sands have been singled out for [...]

Canada in last place

By ⋅ June 5, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

I was startled to see the figure on the right in a recent Economist article. Canada is not only going in the wrong direction when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it’s actually doing worse than the rest of the G8, including the United States. One interesting aspect of Kyoto is that it isn’t [...]

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