Articles by John McGrath
John McGrath is an intinerant student and sometimes reporter currently living in Toronto, Canada. He mainly writes about Canadian and International Politics from an energy and climate perspective
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Not well
The Fraser Institute, the Canadian version of ... I dunno, maybe the Heritage Institute, or a low-budget Cato, has had its response to the upcoming IPCC report leaked. Desmogblog has the details.
Apparently, the scientific consensus is "political." Stephen Colbert is right: the facts have a liberal bias.
Of course, I'd like to know how I, a mere dirty hippie, have provoked this response from big business.
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Expressing energy in terms of oil is misleading
Pardon my smugness -- it comes from being raised in a land that uses the metric system. So this idea that's been making the rounds -- expressing energy content in "cubic miles of oil" -- don't impress me much. Why not cubic cubits?
Fortunately, someone's done the heavy lifting of criticizing this idea a bit more thoroughly:
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How’s things up in Canada, eh?
From the fascinating world of Canadian politics: Stéphane Dion gave his first major policy speech as Liberal leader yesterday. How'd it go?
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A lifelong conservative questions his hatred of hippies
Via Glenn Greenwald, conservative and National Review contributor Rod Dreher's commentary on NPR is a must-hear (oral essay) on his disillusionment under the Bush Administration. Regarding Dave's hippie-bashing bashing lately, this part is especially relevant:
