From: http://business.financialpost.com/o...head-scratchers-for-canadian-voters-to-ponder
With energy and the environment playing an important role in the fall election, Canadians face starkly different policy positions from political parties, together with a bewildering array of information and disinformation. Here is my rather eclectic list of little-known facts, head-scratching paradoxes and utter hypocrisy.
On June 17, the House of Commons passed a motion declaring a National Climate Emergency.
Firstly, there is no such thing as a “national” climate emergency. Climate change is global, not national, and Canada’s contribution to global CO2 emissions is a minuscule 1.6 per cent. Here are the answers to some questions that will help you assess whether there’s really a “climate emergency.”
Apocalyptic projections of rapid sea level rises are driving municipal and provincial governments on both our east and west coasts to implement “sea level rise plans” that include sterilizing waterfront from development, building sea barriers and even buying out and destroying homes that are deemed vulnerable. So just how fast are sea levels rising? Here again the NOAA provides the answer. Despite all the calamitous rhetoric, the NOAA states that sea levels “continue to rise at the rate of about one-eighth of an inch (3.2 mm) per year.” At that rate, a house built 10 feet above sea level today would still be 9 feet 7 inches above sea level 40 years from now.
South Africa, India, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan and China, all signatories to the Paris climate accord, are building a combined 1,800 new coal-fired power plants. Coal plants emit twice as much CO2 as natural gas plants. Meanwhile, international environmental groups campaign against sending Canadian LNG to those countries. And here at home, the Trudeau Liberals have just introduced a tax specifically designed to discourage the building of new cleaner-burning gas-fired power plants as they continue to pursue the fantasy that wind and solar will keep the lights on. Good luck with that. After hundreds of billions of dollars invested, wind and solar contribute just two per cent of global energy supply. And that’s only when the wind is blowing, and the sun is shining.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would have us believe that fossil fuel emissions are the sole reason for climate change. But what about urbanization and deforestation? A study by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs states that the urban population rose from 750 million in 1950 to 4.2 billion in 2018. We don’t need the IPCC’s hugely complex computer models to know that cities are hotter. All we have to do is walk from a paved sun-heated street lined with concrete buildings to a grassy park. Rather than reflecting the sun’s rays back to outer space, all that concrete and pavement absorbs the sun rays, creating a giant heat sink. Likewise, deforestation is turning vast tracts of cool African and South American jungles into heat-absorbing barrens. The U.S. EPA summarizes the combined effect, “Processes such as deforestation and urbanization … contribute to changes in climate.” Trying to deal with any problem without considering all possible causes is both a foolish and dangerous strategy.
The Liberal government’s proposed “national clean fuel standard” requires increased biofuel content in motor fuels. Government mandated biofuel content requirements in North America and the EU have driven the burning of critically important jungle habitat to make way for palm oil plantations. On the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, over 50,000 Orangutans have died because of palm oil deforestation.
Several municipal Councils, including Toronto and Victoria, are looking to sue fossil-fuel producers for causing climate change, but 70 per cent of emissions come from their own constituents. And imagine their outcry if fuel producers failed to deliver!
B.C. Premier Horgan, a champion of carbon taxes, called an enquiry to investigate high gasoline prices, but prohibited the enquiry panel from considering the price impact of provincial taxes. He also wants Alberta to build a new refinery to supply his province, but he’s against the pipeline that’s needed to carry it.
The Trudeau government implemented a tanker ban prohibiting movement of Canadian oil on the northern B.C. coast. Meanwhile, hundreds of tankers churn through the delicate and much more enclosed St. Lawrence estuaries carrying oil from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, Iraq, Nigeria, Angola and Algeria. And while ship/whale collisions are virtually unheard-of on BC’s northern coast, those foreign oil tankers move through waters where a critically endangered Northern Right Whale was killed in a ship collision just last month.
Gerald Butts, former personal secretary to the prime minister, is back to help the Liberals win re-election. Before joining the Prime Minster’s Office (PMO), Butts was CEO of World Wildlife Canada (WWF), an organization dedicated to “landlocking” the oilsands by stopping new pipelines. In his role as head honcho of the PMO, he was the mastermind behind policies that could cripple our country’s oil industry. Gerald Butts has admitted via his Twitter account to receiving $361,642 from WWF during his first two years at the PMO. He claims it was severance, but how many Canadians have ever received severance for quitting their job?
More than 25 years ago ......................................................
newly retired New Brunswick university professor S. D. Cameron...........................................
wrote a fascinating book called "The Living Beach" ...........................................
in which he examined various aspects of beach ecology!!
Quoting various scientific papers, Cameron established that most east coast beach erosion.....................
IS DUE TO CONTINENTAL DRIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The west coast is building up- due to continental drift ......................................
hence the San Andreas fault and the potential.................................
for a HUGE west coast earthquake.......................................
while the east cost is simply falling SLOWLY into the sea........................................
because of continental drift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But such simple logic DOES NOT STOP LIE-berals from LYING about sea levels...........................
because LIE-berals see PROFIT if they can get the public to swallow their climate hysteria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cameron also explains how govt policy is actually driving the flood damage on the east coast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As the east coast sinks into the sea naturally due to continental drift..................................
houses closest to the shore get washed away.....................................
with shameless vote buying LIE-berals handing out "emergency funding"....................................
so that people can REBUILD on land that has already been PROVEN .............................
to be dangerously exposed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There IS A REASON so many people CANNOT GET FLOOD damage insurance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And yet bankrupt govts are BORROWING MONEY to give to flood "victims".....................................
so they can get rebuilt in the same place in time for the NEXT FLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even more ridiculous- smaller and older buildings are often replaced..........................
by LARGER AND MORE COSTLY ONES..................................
the increasing the "flood damage"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for increased "flood damage" inland in places like Ontari-owe.............................
WE KNOW that the speed and volume of rainwater runoff IS INCREASED.............................
as we cut down trees for development.................................
and pave over forests and fields!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE KNOW that always hungry for gravy LIE-berals have NEGLECTED ALL of our infrastructure.................................
for many decades...............................................
and that storm water drains are being over loaded with huge new flows of rain water.....................................
washing off all the new buildings and pavements.......................................
at speeds and in volumes the old city planners NEVER EXPECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet again LIE-berals see gravy in persuading us the floods that now plague our city....................................
are the result of global warming ....................................
rather than being nothing more than unregulated run off from pavement and buildings........................................
runoff that in previous decades would have settled into the ground or been released slowly from wet lands etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE KNOW that such flooding CAN BE ELIMINATED if LIE-berals would build more flood control ponds....................
to MIMIC the natural release of rain water from swamps and wetlands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But such flood mitigation methods require that LIE-berals spend GRAVY that they wish to HOG UP for themselves!!!!!!
It is much easier for LIE-berals simply to DENY their responsibility and culpability ......................................
and to scorn flood victims and SAVE THEIR GRAVY............................
The general public is actually suffering from LIE-beral NEGLECT and contempt..................................
and NOT from global warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
