Cabinet yesterday said it will withdraw billions invested in oil, coal and natural gas projects abroad but did not explain how or at what cost. The Department of Environment made the announcement at a United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow: “I have every confidence in Canada’s ability to blaze a trail.”
And blaze it will!:
This in itself is not a surprise. What should make the ears of Canadians perk up is one of the proposed restrictions to accomplish the goal. Among other considerations in the Liberal government’s proposal, we discover the following, as reported by the Calgary Sun on November 8th, 2021.“Limit personal consumption of hydrocarbons by individual Canadians, in terms of allowable miles travelled by motor vehicle, train or air.”
Wait until the "majority" can't go to their cottages this summer.
I'll believe it when I see it, Moe:
Saskatchewan needs to be a nation within a nation.
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) November 9, 2021
When the federal government implements policies that are detrimental to our province, our government will continue to stand up for Saskatchewan people. pic.twitter.com/zysN0oOe5w
American efforts to keep Albertan oil in the ground:
The U.S.-based Tides Foundation was identified as one of two “re-granters,” (the other being the New Venture Fund) in the anti-Alberta energy campaign, meaning it receives monies from donors and then re-grants them to other groups. Tides is known for providing anonymity to donors who request it while allowing them to direct their funds to the cause of their choice.
Allan determined that the Tides Foundation made 125 grants amounting to over C$10 million to various organizations with a “stated purpose seeking to delay or hinder the development of Alberta’s oil and gas resources.”
The Tides Foundation operated an “exchange fund” program with Tides Canada—consisting of the Tides Canada Foundation and Tides Canada Initiative Society—from 2001 to 2016, which allowed donors in Canada or the United States to make donations in the other country without money ever crossing the border, while still receiving charity donation receipts.
Just to remind everyone, the state of Maine burned Quebec but good.
Common sense is just not allowed:
And it certainly doesn’t help when environmentalists come out against low- or no-carbon technologies for ideological reasons. “If you really believe the end of the world is coming, why aren’t environmentalists committing to the only solution plausible right now, which is nuclear power?” Lomborg asked. “It’s clean and safe and solves the problem.”
Lomborg also disputes common claims, such as the idea that global warming leads to a large increase in natural disasters.
“We have data on global deaths from all climate-related weather disasters such as floods, droughts, storms, and fire from the International Disaster Database. In the 1920s, these disasters killed almost half a million people on average each year. The current climate narrative would suggest that natural disasters are ever deadlier, but that isn’t true. Over the past century, climate-related deaths have dropped to fewer than 20,000, on average, each year, even though the global population has quadrupled since 1920,” he said.
He suggested that politicians like to blame natural disasters, in order to deflect from the reality that damage is often the result of lack of preparedness, inadequate warning systems, insufficient drainage capacity, human or political stupidity, people living where they shouldn’t or failed disaster responses.
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“In Norway, there are more EVs per person than anywhere in the world and studies show that people have two cars — a (subsidized) EV car to go `virtue signalling’ and the real car for use for real stuff,” said Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus think tank and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, in an interview with the Financial Post. “Norwegians use the gasoline car a lot more and drive less in a green car. A new study from a select group showed they only drove 5,000 miles a year, on average. This estimate was based on their electricity usage.”
That’s because, while EVs are fuel efficient, they are not always practical. “The main problem is that they have to pay more to buy it, then sit around and wait 40 minutes when recharging it,” he said. “It’s great if you have a house and can get a high voltage hookup, but 40 per cent or more people live in apartment blocks.”
Antarctica had forest fires at some point:
Between 66 to 100 million years ago, Earth experienced one of its warmest periods. This meant there was plenty of room for vegetation to flourish. Forest fires resulted as a result of this. And it was during this time that the gigantic dinosaurs ruled the world ecology.
In Antarctica, scientists discovered indications of a forest fire. A multinational team of researchers led by the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil discovered fossils from huge forest fires that occurred in the ancient past.
The team spent 2015-16 on Antarctica’s James Ross Island, where they discovered fossils with charcoal-like residue, indicating forest fires.
Six years ago, a proposal was proposed that Antarctica had periodic forest fires. A piece of support for this notion was the discovery of fossils containing charcoal residue.
What caused the wildfires to erupt?
Scientists proposed another surprise rationale. They believe that, among other things, volcanic activity (on Antarctica!) is likewise to blame for the regular forest fires.
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