Will global warming help make our Northern neighbor into a superpower?
by Will on September 8, 2010
Will global warming help make our Northern neighbor into a superpower?
Tagged as: Canada, global warming
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Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
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If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 6 comments)
A Little Side Project of Mine
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Regulatory Capture
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( 2 comments)
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After all the tropics as we all know are completely uninhabitable.
Somebody recently suggested to me that the one thing likely to bring Michigan out of its perpetual state of recession is global warming. With its geographic position and access to water (with the Great Lakes being protected by treaty from being drained to water the U.S. south) and warmer winters, it would likely be a lot more attractive.
Meanwhile, expect Canada to continue to try to protect its claim of sovereignty over the Northwest Passage.
Well if the worlds current superpowers continue to mismanage themselves and their finances Canada may end up a superpower by default.
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