Well, I looked through the 43 references to “climate pollution” in the Vancouver Observer article and saw NO definition of “climate pollution.” However, in the text of the article, Mr. Saxifrage shows his calculation of “tonnes of CO2″: “Result = extra 52 tCO2 to keep driving average car.”
Despite what the U.S. EPA might say, or the IPCC, or the discredited Phil Jones, Michael Mann, et al, there is NO evidence linking manmade CO2 to global warming, merely associations that do not correlate to existing temperature records, not even to those generated out of the models powering the IPCC “recommendations.”
Please have a listen to Dr. Plimer’s informative discussion on the subject, with special attention to the bit about the ocean, limestone, and other CO2-absorbing components of our ecosphere, and certainly not forgetting the PLANTS that cover our Earth, for which CO2 is FOOD (cf. Dark Cycle in any good plant physiology or biochemistry textbook).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rLRObEhC4I
This discussion assumes facts not in evidence. Of course every generation of vehicles has been cleaner than the last; that is also true of manufacturing plants, as management and their employees have to live near them. What I object to is the vilification of technology and, specifically, the automobile and the gasoline that powers it, as some unmitigated evil, to be remedied by using only solar and wind power, while, at the same time, proposing a massive new load on the consumption of electric power, which can only be adequately generated by oil, coal, or nuclear energy, all of which are unacceptable to the epistemologically retarded greens.
360 Degrees Out of Phase 