h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Canada pulls out of the Kyoto Protocol as CO2 emissions continues to increase world wide http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16151310
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/29/carbon-emissions-nuclearpower

The [d]astards!



Oh, wait. This is just formalizing what has been the actual since Canada ratified it.

Not really a *news* story.

Disappointing, certainly, but not news.

and now, some perspective:


"In 1997, the industrialized world — save for Bill Clinton's America — promised to roll back climate-changing, GHG emissions to pre-1990 levels by 2012, and these countries have pretty much met that goal.

Indeed, according to detailed study in September by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the 37 main Kyoto nations plus the U.S. (which has still never ratified the treaty) have emitted 7.5 per cent less CO2 into the atmosphere in 2010 than in 1990.

What's more, as a group, they are poised to meet the collective Kyoto target of 5.2 per cent less than 1990 by 2012, when the agreement was to kick over to a more stringent second stage, which is what the Durban conference was supposed to be about. . . .

For its part, it can be said that Kyoto raised public awareness about climate change, which in turn helped those countries that made specific commitments meet their targets, with some notable exceptions: Australia, Spain and Canada, which saw a 20 per cent increase in overall CO2 emissions between 1990 and 2010.

Still, over that same 20-year period, global emissions rose 45 per cent, largely as a result of the phenomenally rapid industrializing of China, India, Brazil and others in the developing world."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/12/11/f-vp-sheppard-analysis-durban-kyoto.html

Canada's certainly dominating world news -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16153511

Toronto's so-called gay penguins, Buddy and Pedro, have officially split, say zoo keepers, after one of them found a female mate.

Not even fluffy ickl aminals are safe from the heteronormative lie peddled to us day in day out.

O' well to continue on with the Canadian theme - "Canada bans veils at citizenship oath ceremony". I suppose rather than a backlash this could be called a veil-lash. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16152122

"rather than a backlash this could be called a veil-lash"

Lame.

Burqa-lash, surely?

Buddy is clearly bi.

PP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16162789

the design, for a new apartment complex in South Korea, has sparked a furious response from critics who say it resembles the collapse of New York's World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks

Humans: seeing hidden symbolism in simulacra since 100,000 BC.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/15/jacques-chirac-guilty-corruption

"Former French president Jacques Chirac has been handed a two-year suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of embezzling public funds to illegally finance the conservative party he led.

Chirac, a savvy world diplomat and part of France's political establishment for decades...But the 79-year-old former leader did not take part in the trial after doctors determined that he suffers from severe memory lapses"

Isn't it amazing how former state leaders and politicians suddenly get health problems diagnosed just before they go on trial...

Isn't it amazing that the Grauniad felt it was important to say the party he led was "conservative"?

A work of art on display in a Liverpudlian gallery - Cardinal Sin by Banksy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16184773

"The Quebec government is introducing a cap-and-trade system in an effort to reduce carbon emissions in the province."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/12/15/quebec-cap-and-trade.html

Something that critics of Canada's Federal Government's Kyoto Protocol thing should probably be aware of is that Canada's Constitution places policy concerning non-renewable natural resources, forestry resources and electrical energy within the purview of Provincial Governments. The Federal Government is prevented by the Constitution from making legislation concerning the very things involved in causing and controlling climate change.

>> The Federal Government is prevented by the Constitution
from making legislation concerning the very things involved
in causing and controlling climate change. <<

Yes the BNA (British North America Act) clearly delineates
areas of responsibility between the Feds and the Provinces.

The Feds could not legally agree to Kyoto when the Provinces
have control of so many areas involving environmental issues.

Specifically including, but not limited to:
Education
Motor Vehicle Registration/Licensing
Electrical Generation
Fisheries
Forestry
Mining
Oil Exploration and Drilling
Transportation
Highways construction and maintenance
Industrial Development
Manufacturing
Health Care
Tourism

Say, what does the Fed actually do besides taxes, the military
and screwing the aboriginals out of their land?


~jwf~

"Say, what does the Fed actually do besides taxes, the military
and screwing the aboriginals out of their land? "




A few years ago we were heading across the river and for some reason I pointed out Canada Place (sometimes referred to as the Ministry of Truthhttp://reginaurbanecology.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/wedding-trip-march-26-029.jpg ) My daughter asked what people do there, and . . . .





I was stumped.

They used to protect us from American Consumerism.
https://www.buytvhatnow.com/
But ya cant legislate taste indefinitely.


~jwf~

Transfer payments!


There's something good!



and mysterious.




Seriously, the Federal Government has the unenviable responsibility of signing and ratifying international treaties which it must then politely ask the Provinces to implement.


And immigration. Except in Quebec.

And, of course, Quebec never agreed to be party to the latest parts of the Constitution.

Just in case someone thought the TV Hat site
was a spoof, here's their TV ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SJsk1L2RUg

~jwf~

I want one!