Posts Made By: Robert Pasken

Sorry Jim the troll score was meant for David Wagner not you. Sorry I posted in reply to you rather than Wagner

No a progressive and a liberal are the same thing. They are just another attempt by foolish faux conservatives to divide and conquer. Scientists call it Global Warming, faux conservatives try to divide by calling climate change.

I do the same thing every Halloween when it's clear

I wonder why the data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows a graph than what Watts has?

Is this what neo-cons call damage control

Andreas not only deforestation a source of CO2 emissions, but you are also removing a sink for CO2, so deforestation is doubly dangerous

Interesting that all us academics are clueless elitists who hate the world and the common man, UNTIL you find some off-the-wall horse excrement from an elitist academic that lines up with your twisted hate filled view of the world and then suddenly we are no longer clueless elitist but fonts of wisdom. Grow up

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's environmental record is among the worst in the industrialized world, due in part to its poor performance fighting global warming, according to a report from the Conference Board of Canada on Monday.

Canada placed 15th among 17 peers, beating only Australia and the United States. Greenhouse gas emissions, high garbage production, and rampant overuse of fresh water were its biggest environmental problems.

"Without serious attention to environmental sustainability, Canada puts its society and its quality of life at risk," the independent research organization said in the report.

Canada's government has been widely criticized for being soft on greenhouse gas emissions, which have been on the rise, partly due to booming development of the Alberta oil sands.

Canada's per capita garbage production, meanwhile, is significantly higher than of any other OECD nation and its per capita water usage is second only to the United States, according to the report.

"We are among the world leaders in managing our forests, our air quality is good overall, and we have made progress using energy efficiently," said Len Coad, a director at the Conference Board. "But we generate far too much waste, we still use water as though we have an unlimited supply, and our past record on greenhouse gas emissions is terrible."

It seems that this is very new technology. Not bad just it has been delivered yet and it was just (October 24,2008) announced as a commercial product. All in all an interesting product. The only thing that disturbs me is the statement on Hyperion's web site

Hyperion power modules are buried far underground and guarded by a security detail.

Andreas while I agree that the most productive meetings are those when you meet with people who you don't normally talk with over dinner/lunch, I have limited my travel to meeting to only those that I am forced to go to. I would normally go to the December AGU meeting, but have stopped going. The problem is not the time or cost, but the harassment by TSA. I have had the zippers ripped off my suitcase by a TSA agent trying to zip the suitcase closed, I have been detained because I told the TSA screener in advance that I was carrying dropsondes which APPEAR to be weapons and laptops destroyed by deliberate mishandling. In each case I was the criminal because I complained or asked to be reimbursed for the damage done by TSA I was being unpatriotic >