Global Warming: still the ‘Greatest Scam in History’
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Aussie is still burning and summer hasn't started.
"Revealed: 'monumental' NSW bushfires have burnt 20% of Blue Mountains world heritage area
More than 10% of forest in NSW national parks destroyed by fire this season, with the damage to Gondwana rainforest a ‘global tragedy".
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...urnt-20-of-blue-mountains-world-heritage-area
I think if it gets hot in one part of the world, its gotta balance by getting cold in the other opposite.
Swings and balances, but getting more extreme.
Swings and balances, but getting more extreme.
Oh? More extreme than? What is your basis to be extreme from? Did you witness them too?
More extreme than what? The last 10,000yrs have been extremely stable compared to much of the earths history. We're currently in one of the coldest points in the last 10,000yrs, strangely enough. Thank God we had the warm stretches that we've had in the last 10,000yrs so that civilization could develop.
As bushfires rage across vast stretches of New South Wales, southern areas of the state could sink to their lowest December temperatures for almost 60 years.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/...r/news-story/63329a7e8a807ae1601f219b5355c389
There is your "offset . Lol
Love the blue hair, Cliffy is blends so well with the plastic bottles and green grass. :lol:
Terence Corcoran: Why the left loves a climate crisis
We had major breaking news Tuesday out of the United Nations’ 25th Conference of the Parties (COP 25) climate change summit in Madrid: Greta, the self-described “angry kid,” had landed. Her boat docked in Lisbon, just as the World Meteorological Organization reported that 2019 had been a cold year for Canadians.
The Greta news drowned out the WMO report, which also found 2019 produced record levels of frigidity in many parts of North America, including “the coldest February on record for several regions in Western Canada, including the city of Vancouver. It was also a rather cold first half of the year in parts of Eastern Canada. There were further outbreaks of unseasonable cold and early-season snowfall in the western and central interior of North America in late September and late October.”
But forget about Canada. Who cares? The WMO reports that 2019 was hotter on average in other parts of the world, which is why Greta Thunberg and an army of young and not-so-young leftists with radical agendas are mounting a global campaign to bulldoze market capitalism and build a new socialist democratic paradise.
Since nobody wants to overthrow capitalism for the usual trumped-up reasons — inequality, worker oppression, racism, fascism, rising corporate control, globalization, middle-class decline, greedy bankers, private property —the scientific claim of a climate crisis offers a new justification.
From Greta’s Extinction Rebellion to Green New Deal advocates in the United States to the champions of socialism in Europe, the left is using climate change to push an another agenda. In a recent commentary, Greta and two other young global activists — Luisa Neubauer from Germany and Angela Valenzuela from Chile — made it clear their objectives transcend climate change. They want climate action that is “powerful and wide-ranging.” After all, they say, “the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fuelled it. We need to dismantle them all.”
In their reading of the economic world, carbon emissions are the product of market capitalism that needs to be replaced by a government-controlled system that will forcibly eliminate fossil fuels.
In the United States, Green New Deal advocates talk about a green economy, but what they have in mind is a state-directed economic system whose primary official objective is to achieve “net-zero carbon emissions.” The same objectives dominate the Green New Deal advocates in Europe.
One of those net-zero eurogreens is Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister who is in Toronto this week to participate in a Munk Debate on the future of capitalism. In case you are wondering, his aim is to tear down market systems.
Varoufakis is a superstar of the democratic socialist left and a collaborator with Canadian radical Naomi Klein and others in the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). The objectives of DiEM25 include blending Europe’s “diverse political traditions — Green, radical left, liberal — in order to repair the EU.” By repairing Europe they mean expanding the role of government via vague notions of “democratic government.”
According to Varoufakis, a key part of the new socialist plan for Europe “will require recreating European institutions and a political economy that includes a massive Green New Deal or similar strategy.” Varoufakis said in a recent interview that he aims to “create a vision of a liberal, socialist society that is not based on private property but does use money as a vehicle for exchange and markets as co-ordinating devices.”
Well, at least we get to keep a system based on money.
How far the left will be able to ride climate change as a sort of autonomous electric vehicle on the road to socialism will depend on how soon a broader population of workers and middle-class voters realize they are being taken for a ride.
Accepting that climate change is a real global problem to be solved does not mean abandoning the benefits of market capitalism.
Arthur C. Brooks (who will debate Varoufakis in the Munk Debate on Wednesday) argues that Green New Deal socialism will never happen, at least not in the United States. “There’s no evidence that any government is remotely capable of governing on the scale that they’re talking about. The result would be unimaginable levels of unnecessary secondary consequences.”
Brooks may be right about the U.S. and maybe Canada. Among the people who do not want a Green New Deal is Canadian union leader Leo Gerard, the long-time head of the United Steelworkers of America. In a recent interview with CBC radio, Gerard brought a little common sense to the climate crisis. “The reality is that you’re going to need fossil fuels for at least the next hundred years. What we need to do is, do it in a way that’s going to reduce emissions, capture carbon and be healthy to the environment.”
Gerard said that proposals to ban the mining industry, as occurred during the past U.S. election, demonstrate a lack of economic knowledge and understanding. “You can’t build a wind turbine without one to two tons of copper and cement to hold it down. You can’t do solar panels without aluminum and glass, which is made with sand. You have to mine sand.’
The vast majority of people — in North America and the world — are unlikely to embrace the idea of eliminating fossil fuels from the economy, especially if they realize going fossil-fuel free means embracing radical leftists’ visions.
business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-why-the-left-loves-a-climate-crisis
The Greta news drowned out the WMO report, which also found 2019 produced record levels of frigidity in many parts of North America, including “the coldest February on record for several regions in Western Canada, including the city of Vancouver. It was also a rather cold first half of the year in parts of Eastern Canada. There were further outbreaks of unseasonable cold and early-season snowfall in the western and central interior of North America in late September and late October.”
But forget about Canada. Who cares? The WMO reports that 2019 was hotter on average in other parts of the world, which is why Greta Thunberg and an army of young and not-so-young leftists with radical agendas are mounting a global campaign to bulldoze market capitalism and build a new socialist democratic paradise.
Since nobody wants to overthrow capitalism for the usual trumped-up reasons — inequality, worker oppression, racism, fascism, rising corporate control, globalization, middle-class decline, greedy bankers, private property —the scientific claim of a climate crisis offers a new justification.
From Greta’s Extinction Rebellion to Green New Deal advocates in the United States to the champions of socialism in Europe, the left is using climate change to push an another agenda. In a recent commentary, Greta and two other young global activists — Luisa Neubauer from Germany and Angela Valenzuela from Chile — made it clear their objectives transcend climate change. They want climate action that is “powerful and wide-ranging.” After all, they say, “the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fuelled it. We need to dismantle them all.”
In their reading of the economic world, carbon emissions are the product of market capitalism that needs to be replaced by a government-controlled system that will forcibly eliminate fossil fuels.
In the United States, Green New Deal advocates talk about a green economy, but what they have in mind is a state-directed economic system whose primary official objective is to achieve “net-zero carbon emissions.” The same objectives dominate the Green New Deal advocates in Europe.
One of those net-zero eurogreens is Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister who is in Toronto this week to participate in a Munk Debate on the future of capitalism. In case you are wondering, his aim is to tear down market systems.
Varoufakis is a superstar of the democratic socialist left and a collaborator with Canadian radical Naomi Klein and others in the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). The objectives of DiEM25 include blending Europe’s “diverse political traditions — Green, radical left, liberal — in order to repair the EU.” By repairing Europe they mean expanding the role of government via vague notions of “democratic government.”
According to Varoufakis, a key part of the new socialist plan for Europe “will require recreating European institutions and a political economy that includes a massive Green New Deal or similar strategy.” Varoufakis said in a recent interview that he aims to “create a vision of a liberal, socialist society that is not based on private property but does use money as a vehicle for exchange and markets as co-ordinating devices.”
Well, at least we get to keep a system based on money.
How far the left will be able to ride climate change as a sort of autonomous electric vehicle on the road to socialism will depend on how soon a broader population of workers and middle-class voters realize they are being taken for a ride.
Accepting that climate change is a real global problem to be solved does not mean abandoning the benefits of market capitalism.
Arthur C. Brooks (who will debate Varoufakis in the Munk Debate on Wednesday) argues that Green New Deal socialism will never happen, at least not in the United States. “There’s no evidence that any government is remotely capable of governing on the scale that they’re talking about. The result would be unimaginable levels of unnecessary secondary consequences.”
Brooks may be right about the U.S. and maybe Canada. Among the people who do not want a Green New Deal is Canadian union leader Leo Gerard, the long-time head of the United Steelworkers of America. In a recent interview with CBC radio, Gerard brought a little common sense to the climate crisis. “The reality is that you’re going to need fossil fuels for at least the next hundred years. What we need to do is, do it in a way that’s going to reduce emissions, capture carbon and be healthy to the environment.”
Gerard said that proposals to ban the mining industry, as occurred during the past U.S. election, demonstrate a lack of economic knowledge and understanding. “You can’t build a wind turbine without one to two tons of copper and cement to hold it down. You can’t do solar panels without aluminum and glass, which is made with sand. You have to mine sand.’
The vast majority of people — in North America and the world — are unlikely to embrace the idea of eliminating fossil fuels from the economy, especially if they realize going fossil-fuel free means embracing radical leftists’ visions.
business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-why-the-left-loves-a-climate-crisis
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How about 'fukking twit'?Clog-wearing granola eater? Intellectually challenged climate hysteric?:lol:
Do you believe her planting a flower will do more than if she started picking the bottles?
Canada's hottest summer ever? Fake news, says Environment Canada | Sheila Gunn Reid
Rebel News
http://bit.ly/34VVzMX
Sheila Gunn Reid of Rebel News reports: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s own messaging shows that our country isn’t burning to the ground!
Rebel News
http://bit.ly/34VVzMX
Sheila Gunn Reid of Rebel News reports: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s own messaging shows that our country isn’t burning to the ground!
How big were the subsidies for "big oil" to become "big renewable energy"?
Suncor Energy is significantly expanding its position in Canadian wind power, announcing on Monday it will go ahead with a the first phase of a major new wind farm in Southern Alberta.
The project, called Forty Mile, is located on approximately 50,000 acres of private land, south and east of the town of Bow Island, the company says.
The first $300-million phase will have 200 MW of generating capacity, and is expected to be in commercial service in December 2021.
Suncor and its partners have approximately 100 MW of existing wind power generating capacity in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Free capital spending, drilling & production forecasts - 2019 Guidance with the Daily Oil Bulletin.
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Suncor says that once built, the first phase of Forty Mile will consist of 45 4.5 MW wind turbines, a meteorological tower, an electrical collection system, turbine access roads, and temporary construction facilities, delivering renewable electricity to the gird via the Granlea substation, which will connect to the existing 240-kiloVolt transmission line within the project area.
“This unique investment approach in renewable energy is expected to generate double-digit, sustainable economic returns through power generation and retaining the generated carbon credits for utilization in the core business,” the company said.
“This project is part of Suncor’s sustainability strategy, making meaningful progress toward the greenhouse gas intensity reduction target of 30 percent by 2030.”
Forty Mile is also planned with a second 200-MW phase which is targeted for completion in December 2022.
Suncor Energy is significantly expanding its position in Canadian wind power, announcing on Monday it will go ahead with a the first phase of a major new wind farm in Southern Alberta.
The project, called Forty Mile, is located on approximately 50,000 acres of private land, south and east of the town of Bow Island, the company says.
The first $300-million phase will have 200 MW of generating capacity, and is expected to be in commercial service in December 2021.
Suncor and its partners have approximately 100 MW of existing wind power generating capacity in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Free capital spending, drilling & production forecasts - 2019 Guidance with the Daily Oil Bulletin.
TAKE A FREE 14-DAY TRIAL
Suncor says that once built, the first phase of Forty Mile will consist of 45 4.5 MW wind turbines, a meteorological tower, an electrical collection system, turbine access roads, and temporary construction facilities, delivering renewable electricity to the gird via the Granlea substation, which will connect to the existing 240-kiloVolt transmission line within the project area.
“This unique investment approach in renewable energy is expected to generate double-digit, sustainable economic returns through power generation and retaining the generated carbon credits for utilization in the core business,” the company said.
“This project is part of Suncor’s sustainability strategy, making meaningful progress toward the greenhouse gas intensity reduction target of 30 percent by 2030.”
Forty Mile is also planned with a second 200-MW phase which is targeted for completion in December 2022.
Yep, like it was said the Gov. is investing into Energy companies Green projects to create Carbon credits to offset their Carbon release from their Oil production, wild eh Hoid, Cryin Canadian, Cliffy?
And the subsidy is...
Action on Emerging Renewable Power
The Emerging Renewable Power Program (ERPP) provides up to $200 million to expand the portfolio of commercially viable renewable energy sources available to provinces and territories as they work to reduce GHG emissions from their electricity sectors.
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/climate-change/green-infrastructure-programs/emerging-renewable-power/20502
Action on Emerging Renewable Power
The Emerging Renewable Power Program (ERPP) provides up to $200 million to expand the portfolio of commercially viable renewable energy sources available to provinces and territories as they work to reduce GHG emissions from their electricity sectors.
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/climate-change/green-infrastructure-programs/emerging-renewable-power/20502
Environment Canada says 2019 ranked at number 25 since 1951 when "the record" starts.
30s and 40s were by far hotter but not included in "the record".
30s and 40s were by far hotter but not included in "the record".