Talk of rising sea levels always sounds so far away, Al Gore-ishly distant.
But in the last few months, it’s come right to home for people all around the province as they’re coming to terms with new provincial guidelines that now set projected future levels significantly higher than past projections did.
My story on what the City of Vancouver, City of Richmond, Concord Pacific, and ParkLane Homes are doing about this, among others.
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1 gman // Dec 16, 2011 at 3:55 pm
MB if you look at the graph you may wonder why 450 million yrs. ago c02 was 20 to 25 times higher yet it did not cause enough warming to stop the ice age at that time. http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c011572409552970b-pi
2 MB // Dec 20, 2011 at 11:30 am
“It may be that the ideal of freedom to choose ends without claiming eternal validity for them,
and the pluralism of values connected with this, is only the late fruit of our declining capitalist
civilisation: an ideal which remote ages and primitive societies have not recognised, and one which posterity will regard with curiosity, even sympathy, but little comprehension. This may be so; but no skeptical conclusions seem to me to follow. Principles are not less sacred because their duration cannot be guaranteed. Indeed, the very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ‘To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions’, said an admirable writer of our time, ‘and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a
barbarian.’60 To demand more than this is perhaps a deep and incurable metaphysical need; but to allow it to determine one’s practice is a symptom of an equally deep, and more dangerous, moral and political immaturity.”
Isaiah Berlin, ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, 1958.
3 gman // Dec 20, 2011 at 2:47 pm
“Socialism works fine until you run out of other peoples money” Margret Thatcher.
4 MB // Dec 22, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Gman, it was hardly necessary to identify which deity you worship, misspelling and all. We guessed it at about #32.
5 Bill // Dec 22, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Margaret Thatcher not only turned Britain around when their situation looked hopeless, but she, along with Ronald Reagan, were key in breaking up the Communist block and as a result there are millions of people in Eastern Europe enjoying economic and political freedom today. History will remember her as one of the great leaders of the last half of the 20th century.
6 gman // Dec 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm
MB you seem to have no idea how the real world works,the U.N. has their nose in every aspect of our lives. http://www.takingliberty.us/Narrations/usa/usa/player.html
7 MB // Dec 23, 2011 at 9:23 am
Bill, you do not understand the UK economy or its recent history.
Mrs. Thatcher would not have had such a radical program of cuts to the social end of the ledger if they weren’t financed by royalties from North Sea oil. North Sea oil production peaked then entered a steep decline during her tenure. Now Britain underwrites the cost of importing oil by several billion pounds a year.
Moreover, the cost of undoing the damage Thatcher did to the economy has filled history books. She has been widely discredited.
Further, you cite Thatcher and Reagan for breaking up totalitarian communism. Your interpretation of history and amatuerish attempt to rewrite it by purposely ignoring the vital role of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is very reveiling.
Thatcher and Reagan amount to nothing without oil and Gorbachev.
If this was my blog I would’ve locked you and gman into the troll bin about 100 comments ago for a plethora of reasons, distorting the historical record would be only one of them.
8 gman // Dec 23, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Comrade MB,looks like you just blew your cover. LOL
9 Bill // Dec 23, 2011 at 3:29 pm
“If this was my blog I would’ve locked you and gman into the troll bin ”
And if you ran the Farm there is no doubt you would send us to the re-education camp. But then what would you expect from someone who reads Monbiot and the Guardian for information instead of for amusement.
10 MB // Jan 13, 2012 at 9:48 am
Gman + Bill, you’re a pair alright. But my intention is not to call you names or make it personal. Only to draw attention to your wilful lack of understanding about history and science. By “lack of understandnig” I mean brushoff, cavalier rejection, and demeaning well-referenced sources without providing adequate references of your own.
You place the collapse of the soviet union at the feet of Thatcher and Reagan, which is pure idealogical conjecture without regard for the record. Have either of you received a post secondary education? Have you read any political science analysis of the soviet union (or just sci fi)? Obviously you’ve never heard about Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa or Vaclav Havel, three individuals who did all the heavy lifting to erode the soviet block from the inside. All Thatcher and Reagan did was take the credit while watching the real action through a telescope.
Moreover, all three of these men did it while risking their lives or going to jail to bring democracy and independence to their respecetive countries, and all three became top leaders in their own right.
It’s truly sad when someone taints science with extremist ideological politics, cowardly refuses to address criticism to the individuals and works they are critisizing (blogs are notorius for anonymous backstabbing and name calling, and that seems to be the only forum you chose), and selectively rewrites history by ignoring salient facts an events.
Go ahead, make my day. Give refuting science and history your best shot one last time.