Hitting it shortly. This is my Son at his place this morning. It’s a bit wet & heavy.
It's Climate Change I tell'ya!! IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE!!
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Meanwhile it SHOULD be cold here.
Instead, 17 and feels warmer.
It's cool overnight but still not where it should be.
Ugh…wet heavy shit.
Just shovelled our end of the block. Like trying to throw 5 gallon pails of water on the end of a stick....feeling guilty I didn’t hit the other side of the street (selectively) but enough for one round.
Just shovelled our end of the block. Like trying to throw 5 gallon pails of water on the end of a stick....feeling guilty I didn’t hit the other side of the street (selectively) but enough for one round.
Heart attack snow.
Heavy, wet snow is often called “heart attack snow,” because the great effort required to move it can increase your risk of having a heart attack. Repeatedly lifting a shovel full of heavy snow can be more strenuous than running on a treadmill.
Heavy, wet snow is often called “heart attack snow,” because the great effort required to move it can increase your risk of having a heart attack. Repeatedly lifting a shovel full of heavy snow can be more strenuous than running on a treadmill.
Heart Attack Snow: 6 Tips to Preve…
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….& Kahlúa in your coffee to warm you up & thin your blood simultaneously, for medical reasons of coarse. 
Which is just what was needed, the ground's nice and wet now so when the heavy stuff comes it'll soak in more and won't just run off the surface. Hopefully this next week will see enough to put an end to the forest fire season.
Well, we’re coming up on COP27. Sounds like Trudeau will sit this one out & send in the underlings.
apple.news
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -Delegates from nearly 200 countries kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming, placing the controversial topic on the agenda for the first time since climate talks began decades ago.
The agreement set a constructive tone for the COP27 summit in the seaside resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, where governments hope to keep alive a goal to avert the worst impacts of planetary warming even as a slew of crises - from a land war in Europe to rampant inflation -DISTRACT the international focus
www.thestar.com
Climate guru Greta Thunberg isn’t going. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t either.
“The COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of greenwashing,” said Thunberg. “(They) are not really meant to change the whole system.”
Yet an estimated 35,000 people from government, Indigenous nations, climate groups and fossil-fuel multinationals will be getting on planes to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in the hopes of hastening (or hindering) the global movement to net zero.
The Star reached out to activists and academics, green capitalists and researchers and found that while many were opting out this year, few were willing to go on the record to explain why, not wanting to be seen as impeding the global talks.
financialpost.com
SHARM EL-SHEIKH — Delegates from nearly 200 countries kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming, placing the controversial topic on the agenda for the first time since climate talks began decades ago.
Despite increased momentum to address loss and damage due to a rise in climate change-fueled disasters, COP27 faces headwinds to raising cash – with western governments’ budgets depleted from huge spending to shield their citizens from the economic fallout of the war in Ukraine.
www.nationalobserver.com
As world leaders prepare to descend on the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for this year’s United Nations climate conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has decided to sit this one out.
Instead, leading Canada’s delegation will be Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault, flanked by Canada’s top two ranking climate diplomats (?) Catherine Stewart and Steven Kuhn, the climate change ambassador (?) and chief negotiator for climate change (?), respectively.
Egyptian authorities have arrested at least 118 people in the past two weeks for calling for protests during the Cop27 UN climate conference against the spiralling cost of living.
Since 25 October, at least 118 Egyptians have been charged by Egypt's public prosecution after being arrested at make-shift checkpoints or taken from their homes, Amnesty International's Egypt researcher Hussein Bayoumi told Middle East Eye.
Bayoumi told MEE that the real number of detainees might be higher and that several people were arrested based solely on a photo or a post they shared on social media.
He said that the authorities had referred the detainees to the State Security Prosecution, which is responsible for grave offences such as terrorism.
Civilians have been harassed, shops asked to close, and residents without proper IDs told to return after next month's conference.
www.reuters.com
Even before delegates arrive for this latest COP (number 27), a spat has kicked off around Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the event. Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein tweeted sarcastically that it was “Super fun to have a climate summit in a police state sponsored by Coca-Cola”, while the environmental campaign group Greenpeace said it was baffling for COP27 to choose the “world’s biggest plastic polluter” as a sponsor, given that “99% of plastics are made from fossil fuels”.
COP27 kicks off with deal to discuss climate compensation — Reuters Canada
Delegates from nearly 200 countries kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming, placing the controversial topic on the agenda for the first time since climate talks...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -Delegates from nearly 200 countries kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming, placing the controversial topic on the agenda for the first time since climate talks began decades ago.
The agreement set a constructive tone for the COP27 summit in the seaside resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, where governments hope to keep alive a goal to avert the worst impacts of planetary warming even as a slew of crises - from a land war in Europe to rampant inflation -DISTRACT the international focus
Justin Trudeau won’t be at COP27 — and he’s not alone. Has the heyday for global climate conferences come and gone?
Past COP gatherings aren’t seen as having delivered much when it comes to implementing climate programs. Still, even some critics see value in attending.
“The COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of greenwashing,” said Thunberg. “(They) are not really meant to change the whole system.”
Yet an estimated 35,000 people from government, Indigenous nations, climate groups and fossil-fuel multinationals will be getting on planes to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in the hopes of hastening (or hindering) the global movement to net zero.
The Star reached out to activists and academics, green capitalists and researchers and found that while many were opting out this year, few were willing to go on the record to explain why, not wanting to be seen as impeding the global talks.
COP27 kicks off with deal to discuss climate compensation
SHARM EL-SHEIKH — Delegates from nearly 200 countries kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations f…
Despite increased momentum to address loss and damage due to a rise in climate change-fueled disasters, COP27 faces headwinds to raising cash – with western governments’ budgets depleted from huge spending to shield their citizens from the economic fallout of the war in Ukraine.
Trudeau staying on sidelines of COP27
Despite other world leaders going, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sitting out of the UN climate conference in Egypt.
Instead, leading Canada’s delegation will be Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault, flanked by Canada’s top two ranking climate diplomats (?) Catherine Stewart and Steven Kuhn, the climate change ambassador (?) and chief negotiator for climate change (?), respectively.
Egyptian authorities have arrested at least 118 people in the past two weeks for calling for protests during the Cop27 UN climate conference against the spiralling cost of living.
Since 25 October, at least 118 Egyptians have been charged by Egypt's public prosecution after being arrested at make-shift checkpoints or taken from their homes, Amnesty International's Egypt researcher Hussein Bayoumi told Middle East Eye.
Bayoumi told MEE that the real number of detainees might be higher and that several people were arrested based solely on a photo or a post they shared on social media.
He said that the authorities had referred the detainees to the State Security Prosecution, which is responsible for grave offences such as terrorism.
Civilians have been harassed, shops asked to close, and residents without proper IDs told to return after next month's conference.
Brand Watch: Things go badly with Coke, as activists attack COP27 sponsor over plastics waste
The United Nations’ annual 12-day climate summit, soon to kick off in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik, is pitched as an opportunity for heads of state to take stock of climate progress and (hopefully) accelerate action.
She can see CO2. She can't tie her penis in a knot or pile thorny roses up her ass like the gurus I saw on YouTube but seeing CO2 is still pretty special.
Well, in an odd (and unintended, I'm sure) way, exactly that.
A guru is a spiritual or religious teacher/advisor. Given that for all the hardcores, their version of environmentalism shows all the characteristics of a religion, I'm willing to call it a religion. So that'd make Thunberg a religious teacher/advisor.
Ergo, guru.
Or maybe gurette.
Or guretita.
Annnd THERE'S his problem
He doesn't want to be seen explaining how he's messed up the economy to the point where he can't afford to pay to address climate change at this point. Now - if you want a pipeline shut down or something free, he can help you there
While we seldom agree with 19-year-old global climate change activist Greta Thunberg, we’re hard-pressed to fault her condemnation of the United Nations’ latest global gabfest on climate change as “people in power … greenwashing, lying and cheating.”
Thunberg also said she’s boycotting the UN’s 27th annual Conference of the Parties on climate change from Nov. 6 to 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt because it’s being “held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights.”
Canada, on the other hand, will send a delegation headed by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault to this annual, massive UN conference, colloquially known as COP 27.
COP 1 was held in Berlin, Germany in 1995 and since then everywhere from Paris to Bali, Copenhagen to Cancun, Doha to Marrakech and Buenos Aires to Madrid.
Never has it convened in a place where the energy that powers modern civilization is actually produced — for example Fort McMurray in Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands.
These massive UN meetings, attended by tens of thousands of politicians, protesters, special interest groups and UN and government bureaucrats descending on the world’s vacation hotspots, was appropriately mocked by British musician Matt Bellamy in 2007 as “Private Jets for Climate Change”.
EDITORIAL: Greta Thunberg is right, for once — Toronto Sun
While we seldom agree with 19-year-old global climate change activist Greta Thunberg, we’re hard-pressed to fault her condemnation of the United Nations’ latest global gabfest on climate change as “people in power … greenwashing, lying and cheating.” Thunberg also said she’s boycotting the UN’s...
That’s because of the annual fly-ins by attention seeking celebrities these outdated events attract, who are oblivious to the massive carbon footprints they leave in their wake.
Nothing meaningful will be achieved as long as the UN continues its blatant hypocrisy of demanding everyone drastically reduce their carbon footprint, except the UN.
Its approach to addressing climate change has failed. It should be scrapped.
The UN can start by cancelling these ridiculous meetings and using video conferencing.