Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-26
- Exxon, Dow, etc fined millions for underreporting greenhouse gas emissions in Scotland http://t.co/BHscVARi #climate #
- Wow, a 60 person chain!! RT @sushobhan: Lives Forever Linked Through Kidney Transplant Chain http://t.co/OSdoGJKk Heartwarming story. #
- Bonds Backed by Mortgages Regain Allure – @NYTimes http://t.co/a29ufade This time, everything will be all right #
- Enbridge May Reconsider Pipeline Route to Prince Rupert instead of Kitimat http://t.co/SSw9q80b #tarsands #oilsands @reuters #
- Should actually read The Alberta oil sands and climate by Swart and Weaver, media message too simplistic. http://t.co/B6TF3SgN #
- Not at all surprised that Weaver's last line: "avoiding commitments to new infrastructure
supporting fossil fuel dependence" not reported # - RT @alexhimelfarb: Free markets and the disappearing middle http://t.co/BoN7ASF8 #inequality #
- Waves. RT @rickmercer: Hello Victoria. Green grass. Saw people playing tennis on approach. Stunning as always. #yyj #
- On a side note, most will not read Swart and Weaver's really accessible and readable paper because it's behind a paywall. #
- RT @uvicsjs: Tomorrow 7:30pm! Conversations w/ Activists: @VIPIRG Community-Based Research as Community Organizing. http://t.co/uZCsoLVI #
- MT @mikedesouza: #Oilsands env. and energy impacts posing 'financial risk' to Alberta, says PCO: http://t.co/ZErS5lx4 #environment #cdnpoli #
- I am constantly in awe of @mikedesouza for finding secret memos, that's all. http://t.co/ZErS5lx4 #
- RT @Tzeporah: @billmckibben and Hansen respond to Weaver's coal is worse than #tarsands piece #cdnpoli http://t.co/8VwE8C97 via @350 #
- Neil Swart of the Swart and Weaver paper has a summary of the paper on his website. http://t.co/D5vN06IG #
- What Bill #C10 could mean for Canada’s native people – The Globe and Mail http://t.co/OOmhAKbX #indigenous #cdnpoli #
- .@acoyne Not so simple, read http://t.co/Tr9Ce8lg or http://t.co/sd7NFjC8 for context, and Weaver was on CBC this morning, fleshing it out. #
- RT @climatebrad: Santorum: "You let a forest take care of itself, what you'll have is decay and destruction" http://t.co/FpfualKo #
- Transparency FTW RT @mjeso: School board to record votes, after all http://t.co/3b5TqhB5 #yyj #
- Memories of Bhopal disaster derail Dow's Olympic sponsorship. http://t.co/z5TXspun Now, to help the thousands still affected. #
- Paying some company so they can "allow" hyperlinks RT @toriklassen More Canadian universities cave to Access Copyright. http://t.co/620Zm7dz #
- At #twtmoot I believe RT @wcelaw: #EcoMonday World's 1st Twitter Moot to discuss #envlaw #indigenous rights & caribou http://t.co/PUHNbMYi #
- EU vs. the world on carbon pricing. Airlines and tar sands proxy for bigger climate battles -@bbc http://t.co/PSISfpxp #
- <3 whale oil analogies "@camz99: 'Fossil fuels are the new whale oil', says environmentalist Amory Lovins http://t.co/tJFABXwz via @guardian #
- #Generic cancer drug shortage in US symptomatic of US FDA policies prioritising big pharma over generics. http://t.co/qWjnU7B7 #
- RT @andrew_leach: RT @carbonmeme: Andrew Weaver coauthor of the coal versus oil sands study writes in HuffPost: http://t.co/LyoGxTRZ #
- FWIW, the frame of comparing one industrial project's emissions with the emissions of all other fossil fuels ever is troublesome. #
- Hope peds come 1st RT @councillorprice: Peninsula News Review – Sidney plans for future Beacon Avenue interchange: http://t.co/I6bADYqa #yyj #
- Ha. RT @marcleeccpa: How bout this, CAPP: You can have KeystoneXL and N Gateway if we close down all coal and n. gas prod'n. Deal? #
- RT @petemyers: RT @bryanrwalsh: UCS Prez Kevin Knobloch on @PeterGleick and Heartland: http://t.co/0zaPJ6LR #HeartlandGate #climate #AGW #
- Difference between #climategate and #heartland gate: @PeterGleick's public apology and flogging vs crickets on the #climategate hackers #
- Good… MT @drgrist: Economics, not EPA rules, driving coal plants into retirement in the US: http://t.co/6OMaf2lv #
- RT @boraz: It’s Not Academic: How Publishers Are Squelching Science Communication http://t.co/IkZTJHqa by @SauropodMike #
- RT @UBC350: There's more to BC "carbon pipeline" than #NGP B.C. coal exports coming under GHG scrutiny http://t.co/8AtbMZR8 #BCNRG #bcpoli #
- .@ubc350 This excellent article by Barry Saxifrage last year is worth a read on BC coal and C tax exemptions http://t.co/Ku9Ak4zz #
- The @ccpa picks apart fuzzy and selective maths in the #drummond report, unquestioning acceptance http://t.co/rVhQStHX #
- X < Y doesn't mean X is small. RT @ubcic: Canada’s oil sands: Not so dirty after all http://t.co/Odsmi2rp #bcpoli #cdnpoli #tarsands #
- For a better example of how to accurately, and with nuance, report a scientific study, see this from @Mikedesouza http://t.co/CZ11iBjU #
- RT @cfax1070: BC Budget 2012: Making up the $706-mil deficit by selling public land, listen to @cfax1070 for details #bcpoli #
- This chart, via @ezraklein does not bode well for print media in its current ad-funded form. http://t.co/kY9zEG1d #
- Wow, intriguing… RT @omgubuntu: Watch Ubuntu for Android in Action http://t.co/KBCFliMn #ubuntu #android cc @thesarahmundy #
- RT @kevinsmcarthur: I wonder how @ElizabethMay and @denisesavoie feel about @SaanichPolice supporting #C30 in their districts? #yyj #
- BC to "review" future of carbon tax, Falcon claims that it hurts competitiveness http://t.co/OWAUO7XV #bcpoli #
- Wait, the BC #carbontax affects the food export sector? http://t.co/WQlJ9s53. 28.4% vegetable growth last FY http://t.co/TPWGN9WG #bcpoli #
- RT @marcleeccpa: 1/2 of BC budget deficit is just an accounting artifact for the repayment of fed HST @IglikaIvanova http://t.co/EnokE1Lr #
- RT @georgiastraitbc: RT @wildernews: BC budget alarmingly short-sighted in the age of climate change http://t.co/4RtMqq1T #bcpoli #
- Makes sense… RT @MarcLeeCCPA: Seniors home reno credit and kids sport/arts credit billed to carbon tax. #bcpoli #
- Nigerians 'too poor to sue over corporate environmental abuse' http://t.co/1ZAK72ld #
- Mandatory drug sentences 'colossal mistake', – Writer of US law. Senate, your call http://t.co/45YIUrd8 #cdnpoli #C10 #
- Okay 🙂 RT @noii_vancouver: @noii_vancouver closing down our twitter moving to @nooneisillegal #
- RT @milesgrant: Scientists who cross the line are outcasts, deniers who do get CNN contracts: http://t.co/CZFsgU8W #p2 #climate #
- RT @dgardner: As a flaky religious nut gets closer to control of nuclear weapons, Israel prepares to bomb Pennsylvania. http://t.co/LN68rujb #
- So, peer reviewers and editors, do you currently review articles for readability? http://t.co/KmusxjGd #
- Via @dougsaunders, it appears Santorum's come from behind story is drawing crowds in Cumming, Georgia. http://t.co/WPmCRvMS #
- Problem with carbon tax: Each sector always argues for exemption thanks to their importance and virtue http://t.co/aziuujMu #bcpoli #
- #WTO case law: Different production processes do not make similar products dissimilar. – http://t.co/Ze5v2DEL via @andrew_leach #oilsands #
- #WTO case law emblematic of the indifference to environmental and social concerns in these so called free trade arbiters. #
- The Falcon budget, or have the Liberals conceded defeat? Asks Paul Wilcocks from afar http://t.co/E1sdNUf3 #bcpoli #
- This pre-dates the current recession, BTW. RT @drgrist: Americans Drive Less, Keep Cars Longer http://t.co/ay26NluN #
- OTOH RT @climateprogress: Coal Consumption in China Rises at Fastest Rate Since 2005 http://t.co/w4QFCL76 #
- RT @sherwinarnott: Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Over Occupy Wall Street Protester Location Data sans Warrant https://t.co/ftdk2wPZ #
- This paper ($$) says env. effects due to carbon capture and sequestration mostly unavoidable http://t.co/s51R5nD2 Readable abstracts, pls! #
- RT @rivrchik: @pembina backgrounder explains proposed EU fuel-quality directive and implications for Canada http://t.co/G2NFBHfy #tarsands #
- Insane. RT @myopiclenses: Say NO to death for drugs in India http://t.co/dPFLlzk4 . @TheHindu #
- US government official takes apart a poorly researched anti-regulation screed from @theeconomist http://t.co/dvXAJyfj #
- New Environment Canada study ($$) shows high, rising emissions of air pollutants from #tarsands http://t.co/DSHiSG8e #oilsands #
- Pollution measurements of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides from #tarsands comparable to those from large coal plants. http://t.co/LHnJqZAA #
- Of course, emit enough SO2 into the atmosphere, and with aerosol formation, you start counteracting CO2 warming 🙂 #partoftheplan #
- #tarsands Tankers from the Northern Gateway pipeline also bound for Washington, Cali along BC coast past #yyj http://t.co/bc5knSj0 #
- So, we could see #tarsands tanker traffic from both the Gateway pipeline and Transmountain pipeline along #yyj #
- .@cbcsmart MSP more like $2.50 a day, or gasoline tax on 160L of gas, or about half my family's property taxes last year. #bcpoli #
- If someone's blog doesn't allow comments, would you bother commenting them on twitter? #
- RT @propublica: Should towns be allowed to ban #fracking NY state court says yes. http://t.co/Vh63qzRZ #
- Biggest Romney Super-PAC Donor Also Big Climate Hawk, donated >$40M to @EnvDefenseFund http://t.co/fPekpqK4 #smallworld #
- Opponents to European Airline Emissions Law Prepare Their Countermeasures http://t.co/9aJBzxhy Guessing these don't include carbon pricing #
- At what point in time will the "Industry just wants stable, simple carbon pricing" canard die? #
- Waiting to hear Cynthia Enloe on "the post war era" at #uvic #
- I don't think I would go to a talk about war usually. Enloe's perspectives is riveting to me #enloeuvic #
- War, women and inheritance law. Never thought about that… #enloeuvic #
- War widows thinking of themselves collectively in Iraq. The politicalization of widowhood goes against the grain… #enloeuvic #
- Enloe has numbers up on the board. Most are American or Canadian casualties. Interesting choice… #enloeuvic #
- Can a government convince women as mothers and wives to take care of the wounded without pay as a patriotic measure? #enloeuvic #
- Requiring this of women requires them to acquiesce, internalize image as "good wife" or "good mother" #enloeuvic #
- Sacrifice looks different in men and women. Women sacrifice, so we understate the real cost of war #enloeuvic #
- On war. Cynthia Enloe ends by saying "Ask feminist questions, be realistic" #
- On war. Cynthia Enloe ends by saying "Ask feminist questions, be realistic" #enloeuvic #
- Awesome sauce 🙂 RT @janniaragon: We were just serenaded by Dr. Cynthia Enloe. #UVIC #humblebrag #enloeuvic #
- B.C. health-premium hike draws broad criticism http://t.co/FXH8vqJF #bcpoli #
- B.C. First Nations’ lack of broadband Internet access called “ridiculous” http://t.co/vQhX3MTI #bcpoli #indigenous #
- EU stalls Canada’s #tarsands 'dirty' ranking. Countries with #oilsands investments 'abstained' http://t.co/GyO5lb4N #cdnpoli #
- Fraudulent Canadian #elxn41 election calls traced to an Edmonton firm with #cpc Tory links http://t.co/BeWNWXA9 #cdnpoli #
- UN slams Canada for First Nations treatment http://t.co/CPyTWxes #cdnpoli #indigenous #
- Uh Oh, watch out for sleep tweeter @chris4community 🙂 Saw you across the hall at policing poverty, couldn't find you later to say hi! #
- Canada not tracking prescription drug death statistics, provinces not coordinating http://t.co/XsxRIL59 #cdnpoli #cdnhealth #
- Occupy the consumer credit bureaus! http://t.co/tw3rPSOV @occupyCanada Any efforts on this front? credit transparency FTW #cdnpoli #
- Hmm?? RT @nosmartmetersbc: "At the root of the globalist movement is Agenda 21, ‘Sustainable Development….’' UN #bcpoli #cdnpoli #quebec #
- In protest against sale of "crown" land RT @dean_murdock: Local Councillors quit PCC: http://t.co/1jpcibBi #cfax #yyj #saanich #bcpoli #
- The irony of Albertans saying that #tarsands are "better than coal" while going all in on coal. http://t.co/Q30U89ml #cdnpoli #
- RT @308dotcom: ThreeHundredEight [new post]: Double-digit lead for B.C. New Democrats. #bcpoli http://t.co/Q90Ka95y #
- RT @farandwide: Look people, everyone knows the Conservatives would never sanction erroneous calls to voters http://t.co/1tIxRq86 #robocalls #
- RT @inklesspw: Here's the guy conscripted to make phoney trade-war threats to the EU over #ethicaloil http://t.co/MN4t57CS #cdnpoli #
- Why we don’t eat our vegetables http://t.co/UuEOeEaJ Apparently because it's a pain to cook… #
- .@dgardner See @Mikedesouza on how to report scientific studies correctly, http://t.co/CZ11iBjU or see mine http://t.co/VHai88hM #
- Talk Canada being a bad climate actor gives Obama a free pass, working with Saudi Arabia to kill EU Carbon rules. http://t.co/fYfWHiKe #
- When journalists call an emissions trading system a carbon tax, they're just disinterested observers http://t.co/kC29F1NU #
- +1 RT @MarcLeeCCPA: A really well-articulated piece from @nathancullen: An Economy for Canadians, Not the Oil Patch http://t.co/sSAkcev7 #
- We, robots. @susandelacourt on the #CPC election scandal #Roboscam and #vikileaks http://t.co/ZxG8TZJU #cdnpoli #
- Relevant in Canada too? RT @ezraklein: Tax spending is much worse than government spending: http://t.co/UbSJSzCN #cdnpoli #
- Windows that make power. “Invisible” Solar Panels are on the Way http://t.co/0O2CHwWo via @cleantechnica #
- Homosexuality in India: A Literary History http://t.co/yn0H0rEH #gender #
- Our healthcare's more efficient RT @nspector4: David Brooks in NYT: US spends more than Canada on social programs http://t.co/LhX1z1bX #
- "@iglikaivanova Canada will never prosper if it doesn’t confront rising income #inequality & persistently high #poverty http://t.co/ELoAJDya #
- Table 1 is awesome. RT @ghoberg: Great summary on #climatescience consensus from Get Energy Smart Now http://t.co/ZBpL16AN #
- Hmm…RT @drgrist: Finally, a smoking gun connecting livestock antibiotics and superbugs http://t.co/aqpsxLPR #
- RT @robwipond: Andrew Weaver is unfortunately skewing his own facts from his oil sands report http://t.co/LghtLneJ #
- RT @mattyglesias: Rich people agree: environmentalists are out of touch with the working class! http://t.co/yET8tgi6 #
- Environmental and Health Impacts of Canada’s Bitumen Industry: In Search of Answers http://t.co/sGWydenx #tarsands #oilsands #
- est you thought Bill McKibben was only against the #tarsands here he takes #fracking http://t.co/VkNJIO53 #
- Peter MacKay runs from questions over 'stupid' military dirt digging on Liberals http://t.co/unRLh869 #cdnpoli #scandalweek #
- RT @leadnowca: The #robocall scapegoat strategy is ridiculous. #canadiansarenotstupid #cdnpoli Demand consequences – http://t.co/wk2pWg6g #
- RT @andrew_leach: Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act going by the wayside. RT @dougtingey: Kent to repeal #KPIA http://t.co/dQVcviwK #
- +1 RT @sherwinarnott: People remember the #robocall fraud in Saanich-Gulf Islands in 2008 that favoured #CPC MP Gary Lunn, right? #cdnpoli #
- More on #cpc Gary Lunn Election #robocalls in 2008 http://t.co/96VGoNUg This isn't new, thanks @sherwinarnott for reminding #cdnpoli #
- RT @mikedesouza: Scientists spar over #oilsands impacts report as #RSC agrees to review critique http://t.co/DZaqhpUv #
- Glad to hear this! RT @lisahelps: I'm helping @leadnowca (re)generate our democracy! Join me #yourcnda #cdnpoli http://t.co/lnYMld5K #yyj #
- Might be more sympathetic to regressive consumption taxes if the same people also didn't make arguments to cut spending http://t.co/ykWWgqoo #
- Cannot keep up with these #CPC phone frauds, second one this week, this time harassing phone calls http://t.co/Anoziq2d #
- It would do the @BCNDP a lot of good to detail how they're going to fix BC's liquor licence mess http://t.co/g9LSJB7d #bcpoli #
- Apple makes $30 for every dollar it pays a manufacturing worker, Ford – $2, would make $8/car if it paid Foxconn wages http://t.co/DIF5C3vp #
- Americans say they want smaller homes. So why do they keep buying bigger ones? @bradplumer http://t.co/UD3DhsCm #
- The Great Natural Gas Footrace: Where Have We Seen This Before? http://t.co/alC4qpOg Nice article from Ben Parfitt of the @ccpa #
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