Boring white dude in a bad suit: Morning File, Thursday, September 4, 2014

News

1. Gulf of Maine warming at alarming rates

我在星期六就讨论了，但现在美国国家海洋和大气管理局is affirming that gulf watersare “heating up faster than 99 per cent of the world’s oceans.” NOAA views things from a US perspective, but the same issues hold in Nova Scotia:

Ironically, the warmer water has created ideal conditions for lobsters and contributed to an overabundance in recent years, causing prices to tumble to their lowest point in nearly two decades in Maine. But continued warming could force to them to move north or die off, [University of Maine prof Bob] Steneck said.

Puffin chicks have starved and died because of a lack of the herring and hake they need to grow and fledge. Seemingly overnight, longfin squid — normally found in warmer, more southerly waters — appeared, [Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences researcher Nick] Record said.

Scallops, also an important economic element in the Gulf, are vulnerable to ocean acidification, which scientists say is another effect of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The changes threaten a three-state industry valued at more than $1 billion in 2012, a year in which fishermen caught more than 550 million pounds, NOAA statistics say.

We should be making all our decisions around energy consumption and use with consideration of the effects of climate change. That’s why I put this item first on today’s list—the next item, on fracking, is very important, but nothing at all is more important than what we’re doing to the Earth’s climate.

开采更多的煤炭和压裂以增加天然气，只会使海洋局势恶化，破坏了新斯科舍省的五十亿美元龙虾行业。

2.禁止压裂

正如预期的那样，能源部长安德鲁·杨（Andrew Younger）昨天宣布了计划，计划在新斯科舍省禁止压裂，但我将等待观看实际的立法，因为似乎在禁令的边缘有些对冲。“这既不是永久性的，也不是时间限制的禁令。”Younger said, and the ban applies only to “high-volume” fracking, whatever that means. Moreover, “we’re prepared to open this up if a community approaches us and is prepared to look at this,”年轻人告诉加拿大广播公司。

3. Steele resigned over union offer

Former finance minister Graham Steele’s book comes out today, but the Chronicle Herald got a sneak preview yesterday. In his book,What I Learned About Politics: Inside the Rise — and Collapse – of Nova Scotia’s NDP Government之前后,斯蒂尔表明他离开政府mier Darrell Dexter reversed a cabinet decision to hold the line on pay increases for the Nova Scotia Government & General Employees Union.Writes reporter Michael Gorman：

在几个小时之内，立法被取消，斯蒂尔和他的其他核心小组同事得知德克斯特同意与联盟达成更丰富的协议，联盟（包括斯蒂尔在内）在先前的谈判中被拒绝。斯蒂尔说，德克斯特在没有咨询核心小组或财政委员会的情况下做出了决定。

经过两年的股份增长，面对医疗保健罢工的德克斯特（Dexter）同意与工会达成更丰富的协议。

“The boys in the Premier’s Office had gone to work on Darrell, and they didn’t care what anybody else thought,” writes Steele. “Once the offer was made to the union, it couldn’t be pulled back. And the premier had told his boys to make the offer.”

我很高兴斯蒂尔（Steele）写了这样的坦率，但我希望有更多有关费用的详细信息。也许书中有，而高曼（Gorman）只是没有介绍细节。

斯蒂尔当然是一个财务家伙，金融家伙倾向于以狭窄的方式看数字。我只能说，我们可以负担得起我们想要负担的东西。同样的新民主党政府有能力向亿万富翁欧文一家捐款3亿美元，因此我将“我们负担不起付钱给工人支付更多”的货物。

Still, Steele’s resignation is important for what it says about how our political system works. We’re supposedly a democracy, and yet decision-making rests with one person, the premier or the prime minister. The political parties are not democratic organizations, but rather cheerleading squads, indistinguishable from the Chinese Communist party rallying around the Dear Leader. There is no room for disagreement, no tolerance for varied opinions.

That’s perhaps a bit unfair—to the Chinese Communists, who appear to tolerate more dissent than do Nova Scotian political parties.

无论如何，单人规则系统不健康。

3.监狱人手不足

A guardspeaks to Metroabout conditions in the Dartmouth jail.

4.哈利法克斯委员会返回工作

我讨论four big issues facing Halifax council this fall。This article is behind the pay wall and so is available only to paid subscribers. To purchase a subscription,click here。

5.保存开伯尔

Friends of the Khyber今晚晚上7点在哥廷根街的北纪念图书馆开会。

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Views

1. Yeah, Armageddon!

The Chronicle Herald disapproves of the ban on fracking. It’s a “very disappointing decision,” saysthe paper’s main editorial, which doesn’t mention climate change. “Could we please find more things to say no to?”嗅探马里拉·史蒂芬森（Marilla Stephenson）, who doesn’t mention climate change.

当然，加拿大将全力以赴，以利用焦油砂计划，而新斯科舍省本身也在继续努力训练离岸，这些操作也应反对，但是每次我们开放一个新的机会来开采化石燃料的新机会, we’re that much closer to irreversible climate change. Denying the opportunity to burn still more fossil fuels isn’t “saying no”; it’s saying yes to caring about the future.

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Government

City

Point Pleasant Park Advisory Committee(4:30pm,Office and Maintenance Building at the park)—the committee will discuss a proposed Mi’kmaq Warrior Memorial,among other issues。

Province

Standing Committee on Economic Development(9:30am, Johnston Building)—The only thing on the agenda is讨论议程本身。

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On Campus

Dalhousie

The women’s basketball team is去德国。

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注意到

Some people won’t take climate change seriously until some boring white dude in a bad suit talks about it, so here’s the UK government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, talking about it, at the 39:00 minute mark.

他总结说：“我真的很沮丧。”

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在港口

（单击船只名称以获取图片以及有关船舶的更多信息）

到达

Veendam，邮轮，夏洛特敦到20号码头
Toreador，英格兰南安普敦的车辆载体自动
Reykjafoss, container ship, Argentia to Pier 42
Mainport Pine，BP探索25码头
Carnival Splendor, cruise ship, Saint John to Pier 22
Zhuang Yuan Ao，沥青油轮，圣让 - 港口joil，魁北克
沥青之星, asphalt tanker, Gibraltar to anchor
沥青水手，沥青油轮，圣约翰与沥青星旁锚定

Departures

Toreadorto Manzanillo, Dominican Republic
Reykjafossto Portland
Veendamto sea
Carnival Splendorto sea
Zhuang Yuan Aoto New York

Of Note

沥青之星and Sailor will be conducting a transfer operation in the Bedford Basin. This was done once before earlier this year.

狂欢节辉煌（Carnival Splendor）在哈利法克斯（Halifax）的第一站对我的[Peter Ziobrowski]知识。她是一艘臭名昭著的船。首先，她是Costa Concordia的姐妹，该哥斯达黎加（Costa Concordia）在意大利淹没，但在建筑过程中被转移到母公司狂欢节。她还在机房中遭受了2010年的大火，导致电力损失，需要拖回圣地亚哥。美国海军为她提供了为期四天的无能为力的港口的供应。

HMCS St John’s is due out of the graving dock and moving to the machine shop wharf at the shipyard.

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Footnotes

I’m about 200 emails behind, so no, I’m not ignoring you specifically.