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| They're Changing our Five Dollar Bill; "Mon pays, c’est l’hiver" | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 4 2013, 01:49 AM (356 Views) | |
| Brewster | Mar 4 2013, 01:49 AM Post #1 |
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The Republican political consultant Frank Luntz met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2006 and advised him: “If there is some way to link hockey to all you do, I would try to do it” (Montreal Gazette). Harper has spent many years during his time as Prime Minister working on a book on the history of hockey, which is reportedly to be published in 2013. Hockey (never Ice Hockey) in Canada is more than a sport, it is a nationally unifying cultural activity like no other. It is popular throughout the country: in both English and French-speaking regions; among recent immigrants and in aboriginal communities; as a professional spectacle and as an amateur sport on small-town rinks, frozen ponds and in backyards. A study by researchers in Quebec published in Environmental Research Letters in 2012, demonstrated that the outdoor skating season has decreased statistically significantly in many regions of the country, particularly in SW Canada. They conclude:
The Nunatsiaqonline reports that, because of climate change, the community of Cape Dorset on Baffin Island can no longer rely on cold weather to keep its indoor rink frozen for the hockey season. It has purchased an ice-making system called eco-glace from a Quebec company. It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and climate change has at least now made it possible for enterprising southerners to sell ice to the Inuit. And So the Five Dollar Bill must be Changed ![]() The back of the current Canadian five-dollar bill. The quotations in small print are in French and English, from Roch Carrier’s story The Hockey Sweater: “The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places—the school, the church and the skating rink—but our real life was on the skating rink”. All Canadian banknotes are being redesigned and the new five-dollar bill will have an image of the Canadian-built robotic arms used in space exploration. Great care goes onto the selection of the images. Using the Access to Information Act, The Canadian Press obtained heavily censored documents that record the deliberations of the team reviewing the banknote image options for the Bank of Canada. Among the comments were, incredibly: •Pictures of wind turbines and solar panels were rejected because “clean energy is a controversial concept.” •Images that included snow “may become more controversial should global warming progress,” and are best avoided, said some. Denial of the science of climate change—the rebutting of which is the main goal of Skeptical Science—is undoubtedly an obstacle to progress. But as Kari Norgaard has shown, even people who accept the science and care deeply about the environment find ways to justify continuing to live as if their lifestyles were not part of the problem. Developed, progressive countries with economies dependent on large fossil fuel resources, like Norway and Canada show the clearest examples of implicatory denial of climate change. But by no means do these societies have a monopoly on it. Wealthy people in all countries have been slow to change their lifestyles, including even those who are the most informed. In Canada and elsewhere, many of us who are alarmed about climate change nevertheless continue to act, as if we were repeating some version of St Augustine's famous prayer: Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Liberally borrowed from Skeptical Science, then edited for content and brevity.) Edited by Brewster, Mar 4 2013, 01:52 AM.
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| Pat | Mar 4 2013, 03:26 AM Post #2 |
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It seems to me like the sport is nothing more than a game of stick ball, that morphed to compensate for the fact that the ground is covered in ice and snow for months on end. And then spread to more moderate climates out west. Stick ball like soccer in their basic forms, is a poor mans team sport. You can equip yourself for penny's. Now of course the uniforms and equipment are cutting edge and near bankrupt the parents as Jr takes to the rink. |
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| Brewster | Mar 4 2013, 04:54 AM Post #3 |
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Them's fightin' words. pardner! |
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| Deleted User | Mar 4 2013, 09:23 AM Post #4 |
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How long till we are stuck with sand dune skiing? |
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