Wednesday-Night

Frank Kinnelly writes: Here’s a link to the candidates’ responses to a series of questions on science policy.  Note that you can click on a link giving the responses side-by-side.  Note that Obama’s goals for reducing GHG are far more ambitious than McCain’s.
The world’s poor deserve better US leadership
The US election has implications for science […]

See also Global Monitoring Report 2008
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Sub-Saharan Africa is a highly complex Region of 47 countries with 7 distinctly different colonial histories. It is also highly diverse, with more than 700 million people of at least 1,000 different ethnic groups. The Region is a critical development priority—it has some of the world’s poorest countries […]

We are delighted to hear from former (because they moved to Toronto) Wednesday Nighters Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu about the book they have just published. We look forward to reading it.
Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the Food Mile Perspective
Hiroko Shimizu, […]

 
Note from Bill Copp: 79 years today since the crash of ‘29. Just a mean thought, not a serious one, to help start your day
Julius Grey promises to be with us this week and having said that, we can all look forward to intriguing and challenging conversation – just for starters a […]

(FP Morning Brief) The world’s oilfields are declining faster than expected, according to a landmark IEA study leaked to the Financial Times.
24 October
(FP Morning Brief) OPEC, meeting today in Vienna, agreed to cut oil production by at least 1.5 million barrels per day in the hopes of arresting a downward trend that has seen […]

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Nuclear Power May Be in Early Stages of a Revival
(NYT) WASHINGTON — After three decades without starting a single new plant, the American nuclear power industry is getting ready to build again.
When the industry first said several years ago that it would resume building plants, deep skepticism greeted the claim. Not since […]

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Lagacé-Dowson’s orange revolution not over yet  
Dowson thinks the NDP could capitalize and take some left wing votes in Quebec whenever Gilles Duceppe decides to stand down as Bloc Quebecois leader. “Quebecers have shown that they are comfortable with the government assisting the population. This flies in the face of […]

There was a time – until quite recently – when we aspired each week to fulfilling our mission “to entertain, inform and occasionally comment on a wide range of subjects of interest to us and to the many participants in and contributors to the Wednesday Night Salon”. However, the entertain part is becoming increasingly difficult […]

 Despite environmental concerns, China plans dams
Arguing that hydroelectric power provides the easiest route to energy for people living in Tibet, officials in Lhasa say that China has begun scouting sites for potential dams. Although China has sought to reassure people that the dams would not harm biodiversity, critics argue that China […]

An interesting morning

The good Krugman
Bill Watson in the National Post
Despite his political views, free-market economists find it hard to quarrel with a Nobel for Paul Krugman
You don’t get the Nobel Prize in Economics for writing newspaper columns (as I’ve been trying to explain to my mother the last couple of days). So the prize awarded […]