POSTED BY: Gordon McBean, Ph.D., FRSC Professor and climate scientist,

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There’s no conspiracy
Regarding the column Hot and bothered over climate (July 14).
Peter Worthington’s column is so full of misinformation that a full rebuttal is not possible – but 1934 was not the hottest year of the past century and we know a lot about the climate.
Lawrence Solomon, Lorrie Goldstein and Worthington like to believe [...]

Drive-through dustup begins

Drive-through dustup begins
Tue, July 15, 2008

By JENNIFER O”BRIEN , SUN MEDIA

Hundreds of Londoners packed Centennial Hall today for a public hearing on proposed restrictions on fast-food drive-throughs in the city.
An overwhelming majority of the crowd, most of them fast-food workersm, sported blue campaign t-shirts distributed by [...]

Review: Urban ecosystems and the North American carbon cycle

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Abstract
Approximately 75–80% of the population of North America currently lives in urban areas
as defined by national census bureaus, and urbanization is continuing to increase. Future
trajectories of fossil fuel emissions are associated with a high degree of uncertainty;
however, if the activities of urban residents and the rate of urban land conversion can be
captured in urban systems [...]

Support from Executive Director, Greenpeace in Canada

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FOUNDED IN CANADA, 1971 / FONDÉ AU CANADA, 1971

July 15, 2008

Councilor Judy Bryant
Chair, London Planning Committee
300 Dufferin Avenue.
London, ON
N6B 1Z2

Dear Madam Chair,

I am writing to urge you and the London planning committee to support a temporary moratorium on further “drive through” business operations in London.

While there has been much [...]