Millions of Canadians have been fed a bunch of B.S. by those whose responsibility it is to prevent, contain and explain such public health disasters. Full story here.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Report Blames Pesticides for Illnesses
San Francisco Chronicle
Pesticides pervade the environment, from the air we breathe to the food we eat, and they are making children sicker than they were a generation ago, a new report warns. Details here.
Please also read: "Field of Nightmares" exploring the dark side of Roundup.
Pesticides pervade the environment, from the air we breathe to the food we eat, and they are making children sicker than they were a generation ago, a new report warns. Details here.
Please also read: "Field of Nightmares" exploring the dark side of Roundup.
Crop-duster in western Manitoba, CA. PLT photo
Monday, October 8, 2012
So You Don't Think Climate Change is Worth Fighting? Read on.
•Climate change and the carbon economy as estimated here are responsible for 5 million deaths each year today and cause illness in tens of million people globally comparable to the third leading cause of preventable death with a similar societal impact as tobacco use (see: Health Impact Climate/Carbon)
• The carbon economy claims the largest share of this impact, in particular
due to toxic air pollution, at over 4.5 million deaths a year today
• Climate change is estimated to be responsible for 400,000 deaths
each year, particularly due to hunger and communicable diseases in the
lowest-income countries
Arsenic in Our Food
Consumer Reports magazine: November 2012.
Our findings show a real need for federal standards for this toxin. Full story here.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Scientists: Climate Change Could Cause Coral Reef Extinction
Common Dreams.
Photo credit: Quicksilver
Dwindling fish size and stock may lead to food insecurity. Details here.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Why Lake Winnipeg's Degredation is a Prairie-Wide Environmental Calamity
by Jim Harding
Industrial-agricultural contaminants and Regina’s poorly treated sewage are degrading the Qu’Appelle Valley lake chain. This is a microcosm of a much larger…Full story here.
Please also read, Lake Winnipeg Predicament a Human Creation, (a letter to the editor by John Fefchak).
THE END OF GROWTH – first in a series
by Jim Harding
In 1972 the book Limits to Growth was published. This year, forty years later, the book The End of Growth came out. Full story here.
In 1972 the book Limits to Growth was published. This year, forty years later, the book The End of Growth came out. Full story here.
At Last. Someone Gets to the "Bottom" of Climate Change!
by Danny Dimwit
ROBLIN, MB:
Wow! Sure has been windy lately, huh?
We
had two big trees blow down right beside our own house near Roblin late one night back in July. The top 8 or 10 feet of 6 others were ripped off and came crashing down at the same time.
I even had a heart attack after cleaning up the mess in my yard. (Needed open-heart surgery - bypasses, the whole 9 yards!)
(Later, I talked to a lady who had a bit of a heart attack, too, while cleaning up a campground near Portage, further to the east. She said a big wind kind of like a tornado had passed through!)
The storm at our place (I think they called it a plow wind), damaged our sun porch, buckled our garage door and damaged our car. Cost a couple of thou to fix.
I even had a heart attack after cleaning up the mess in my yard. (Needed open-heart surgery - bypasses, the whole 9 yards!)
(Later, I talked to a lady who had a bit of a heart attack, too, while cleaning up a campground near Portage, further to the east. She said a big wind kind of like a tornado had passed through!)
The storm at our place (I think they called it a plow wind), damaged our sun porch, buckled our garage door and damaged our car. Cost a couple of thou to fix.
As bad as it was, other poor souls in our neck of the woods also
suffered damage from the wind which could have been even worse. We saw
trees down everywhere, including some on top of houses and trailers in Roblin.
Did you?
Word
is, folks were even taking food to the dump because their power was out for so
long, it spoiled.
Lately,
those damn grassfires whipped by the wind, have even been burning houses and forcing
folks out of their homes south of the Peg. They've been without power for days now!
A
couple of years ago, and last year, too, I guess, we sure did have a lot of
flooding. Our farmers couldn't grow crops on millions of acres because of it,
apparently. Now, this year, it's drought. Yields weren't what they'd hoped for
earlier. Apparently crop diseases that are usually rare, were more common 'kuz of
the lack of rain.
I've
heard that some folks who lived along the lakes still aren't even back home, yet. Bummer!
But
this is nothing new, is it? We get bad weather all the time, don't we?
And
those people who call themselves "experts," with the government and
the universities, telling us that we, you and me, are behind this "athro
por jenik," or whatever, change in our weather! What a bunch of
pointy-heads!
I
only got my high school, but I talk to folks in the coffee shop! They may not have
fancy degrees, but they know things! And they say this weird weather is natural. It's just part of natural shifts in weather patterns, sun flares, the
tilt of the earth, 'n such...things we got no control over. Apparently there even used to be a big lake
covering a lot of the province. So there! That proves it!
And that
fella, Tim Ball, he knows. He was a professor once. And he goes around telling
farmers they better hope for more global warming! The pointy-heads claim they
get their information from satellites, weather stations,
models they make using computers, observatories on mountains, tree rings and
ice-cores. Not sure where Tim gets his from. But I just know he's out there in
the arctic and in the deserts, gathering the proof he needs for what he says!
And
those pictures you see in the news of polar bears swimming up north and all the
ice melting….that's just those pointy-heads, doctoring the photos so they can get more research money. They must be doing
something crooked, kuz Tim says the planet is actually cooling down, not
heating up!
They
try to tell us the bad storms are worse and happening more than they used to.
What a crock!
I
remember, when I was a kid, back in the 40s and 50s.....well, OK, I don't remember almost
getting killed in my house, or houses burning, or so many crops being wiped
out, or floods destroying so many cabins, communities being evacuated or
highways caving in quite like this.
OK, maybe not.
OK, maybe not.
But
the warm weather! Hey, so what if it is getting hotter out there! Those warnings from the pointy-heads
that our kids may face a planet unfit to live in when they grow up, is just more blather! After all, you can always
crank up the A/C in your car. That's what I do!
I
say, if this is global warming, bring it on!
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PLT: The facts of this tale, we know to be true, unlike the name we have ascribed to the "author." The scarey part is, the conclusions Danny draws are disturbingly similar to real opinions one hears all too often on the street! Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Wildfires Prompt Manitoba to Clamp Travel Restrictions on Southeastern Area
Government of Manitoba News Release.

For latest conditions, check here.
Firefighters battle a raging brush fire that is threatening
homes in Winnipeg. WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)
FIRE UPDATE
New Travel Restrictions Introduced
The Office of the Fire Commissioner, Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship, and the Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization continue to support municipalities and fire departments with fires in southeast Manitoba.
Hot, dry conditions and high winds are driving grass and brush fires in several areas including fires near the communities of St. Malo, Richer, Milner Ridge and Vita. Non-essential personnel are asked to avoid these areas as conditions are changing quickly.
Municipal and provincial staff are also working with the municipalities of Grahamdale and St. Laurent to address fires.
The community of Vita issued an evacuation order earlier today. Area residents are being directed to a reception centre in Steinbach. The bridge west of the community has burned and there is no access from the west on PR 201.
Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship is providing three water bombers to address the fires near Vita and Richer. Two water bombers from Ontario are also providing assistance.
The department is also introducing backcountry travel restrictions in the eastern region effective immediately. This includes the area east of PR 302 to the Ontario border and south of the TransCanada Highway to the U.S. border. Backcountry travel is now allowed by permit only.
Monday, October 1, 2012
2012 US Drought: Pick Your Poison
By Brian Bienkowski The Daily Climate
As harvest season gets underway, farmers find drought-stressed crops are susceptible to toxins and contaminants, further reducing yields. Details here.
As harvest season gets underway, farmers find drought-stressed crops are susceptible to toxins and contaminants, further reducing yields. Details here.
By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON
Global Fisheries Approaching Collapse
Planetsave
A new report by the Sustainable Fisheries Group (SFG) has confirmed the suspicions held by many researchers that the thousands of fisheries that there isn’t much data on, that’s nearly 80 percent of the world’s fisheries, are in steep decline but could potentially recover to a degree if they are properly managed. Full story here.
Photo credit: Ecology Action Centre.
A new report by the Sustainable Fisheries Group (SFG) has confirmed the suspicions held by many researchers that the thousands of fisheries that there isn’t much data on, that’s nearly 80 percent of the world’s fisheries, are in steep decline but could potentially recover to a degree if they are properly managed. Full story here.
Photo credit: Ecology Action Centre.
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