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September 18, 2008

A Carbonzero campaign

Posted by Dominique Jarry-Shore at 01:18 PM ET

NDP candidate Nicolas Thibodeau with his bike
PHOTO DOMINIQUE JARRY-SHORE

While the party leaders have all (except for Stephen Harper) made very public efforts to run a carbon neutral election campaign, it's safe to bet the hundreds of lesser-known candidates running in ridings across the country have not.

Running a campaign office and getting to and from events represents a significant portion of a campaign's carbon emissions. In fact Kate Holloway, the CEO of Carbonzero, estimates that 50% of a party's total greenhouse gas emissions comes from the activities of candidates.

(You may recall that Carbonzero is the company offsetting the carbon emissions of Stephane Dion's campaign -- and they must be raking in the dough considering the plane he's flying.)

Carbonzero recently launched an online calculator for candidates to tally their carbon emissions. According to Holloway's numbers, each candidate produces about 5 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. At $22 per tonne, the campaign can be offset for a mere $110.

But Nicolas Thibodeau, the NDP candidate for Mount Royal here in Montreal, won't be paying any money to offset his campaign. He rides his bike to and from party events and says he already has a carbon zero campaign. You can check out his blog here.

So, what about your local candidates?

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Reader comments:

I do not think I have ever been sadder. There is no longer any doubt thast we have been lied to by experts in flim flam and the Left has fallen for a fraud.
All indicators are that not only did the warming stop in 1998, it started getting cooler in 2002 in spite of increasing levels of CO2. One only has to compare the CBC produced "Global Warming - Doomsday Called Off" in 5 parts, with their present disinformation to get an idea of the magnitude of this biggest of Big Lies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr5O1HsTVgA

"Since just January 2007, the world has cooled so much that ALL the global warming over the past three decades has disappeared! This is confirmed by a plot of actual global average temperatures from the best available source, weather satellite data that shows there has been NO net global warming since the satellites were first launched in 1979."
"Is This The Beginning of Global Cooling"

Then the news comes that Gore is on Lehman Bros. Board, and they were invested heavily in carbon trading schemes. "Lehman Brothers Close Ties to Gore, Hansen and Carbon Trading"
See http://www.icecap.us/ for both stories

Posted by: Judy Cross at September 18, 2008 09:04 PM

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Even if what you posit is true, don't you think it's a good idea anyway for us to start thinking about mitigating the damage we're doing to the earth with pollution?

Posted by: dan at September 18, 2008 09:28 PM

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Pollution yes,but CO2 isn't pollution. That's the scam.
What good does taxation do the Earth if the thing being taxed is actually beneficial. CO2 is necessary for all life to exist. It's plant food and the Earth gained 6.2% more green matter in the last 20 years according to a NASA study published in 2004.
The warming was beneficial. Cooling will decrease crops yields, and it looks like we are heading into 30 years of cooling.

Are we seeing the beginning of a natural cooling cycle? YES. Further cooling, with upward and downward variability, is expected because the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has returned to its cool phase, as announced by NASA this year.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18012

It is going to be really tricky dismantling the scam since so many people are emotionally invested in it.There have been billions spent on dodgy "climate science". The hoped for profits the Montreal Climate Exchange expects to see will also be dificult for the speculators to see set aside.

Posted by: Judy Cross at September 19, 2008 01:42 AM

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