Lesson Learned?

Vincent J. Curtis

12 Oct 24

RE: Councillors resign from Red Hill board amid rising tensions. News Itme The Hamilton Spectator 11 Oct 24.

I suppose it had to be created and entertained for a while, in the interests of “reconciliation” and all, but this Red Hill valley “board” was a farce from the beginning, and now it should be obvious, even to Council.

The City of Hamilton did not sign a treaty with any band of Indians, and is not responsible for upholding or enforcing the terms of any such treaty.  The so-called representative of the so-called Haudensosaunee call themselves the “hereditary chiefs’, meaning they are not democratically elected, and represent no one but themselves and whoever chooses to support them. Their word is not binding on anyone. (And we have no proof of their alleged hereditary status as “chiefs” by tradition.)

No doubt they rely for their land claim on the fraudulent 1702 “Nanfan Treaty”, in which the Mohawks surrendered title to land they did not possess to the Acting Governor of the Province of New York in exchange for the British to muscle the Mississaugas out of present-day Niagara Peninsula and south-western Ontario. (This was after the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Treaty with the Mississaguas of 1701!). Red Hill Valley and the environs of Hamilton – the Land Between the Lakes - was purchased from the Mississaugas in 1792.  The Mississaugas have no land claim over the Red Hill Valley, so why should the Mohawks?

This committee is merely an effort by a few Mohawks to mess with the white man, and are playing upon his conscience to gain the necessary leverage. Why else would studies and input from experts be vetoed except to mess with something? Why is Aaron Deltor pretending like he has veto power over the white man’s actions except to mess with him?

Wake up and smell the coffee, white man. The Mohawks have been playing duplicitous games like this for over three hundred years.

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Could owe trillions?

Vincent J. Curtis

30 Sept 24

RE: We’re not asking to break Canada. News item The Hamilton Spectator 28 Sept 24

Those who, over the years, have followed closely the land disputes raised by members of the Six Nations, the attacks in bad faith on two different property developments in Caledonia, and have researched deeply the so-called Nanfan Treaty know that there is no merit whatsoever in the land claim now before the courts and reported on in the Spectator article.

But this is not the place to discuss why. At no cost to themselves, Six Nations can throw this lawsuit and then another at Canada, for this reason or that, and Canada cannot afford to lose even once. Any court judge, for reasons having nothing to do with the law, can decide that he, in his superior virtue, thinks that Canada ought to give the Indians even more money.

For all the spaghetti Six Nations is throwing at the wall, they might well be Italian.

Canada has to figure out a way of dealing with bad faith litigation by Indians who have nothing to lose and trillions to gain. A price needs to be paid by the Indians if they lose.

Canada’s national debt stands are $1.2 trillion; the decision as to whether the Indian litigants are owed multiple trillions surely cannot be left in the hands of any old Ontario judge.

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The Rise and Fall of Hurricane Helene

Vincent J. Curtis

27 Sept 24

RE: Florida braces for hurricane. AP story. The Hamilton Spectator 27 Sept 24

In view of the undoubted cries of “climate change”! it is worthwhile to review the progress of Hurricane Helene.

Hurricane Helene began as a tropical storm on the south side of the Gulf of Mexico.  As it headed northward towards Florida, it intensified into a Category 4 hurricane, but dropped to a Category 3 when it landed.  It will lose intensity and finally peter out as it heads northward across the landmass of southern United States.

Helene intensified not because of the injection of carbon dioxide into the storm, but by the absorption of warm water as it crossed the Gulf.  It lost intensity not because its supply of carbon dioxide was cut off, but as its supply of warm Gulf water was cut off.  Carbon dioxide plays no role in the intensity of storms.

Likewise, hurricanes form over the Atlantic ocean not because of the massive supply of carbon dioxide over the ocean, but because warm water is able to be absorbed by wind patterns off the Sahara desert that together get organized into a self-perpetuating cyclonic pattern. Carbon dioxide plays no role in the organization of tropical storms.

The climate-change mafia forecasted 33 named storms this year over the Atlantic, but we’ll actually get less than half that many.  Helene demonstrates that CO2 plays no role in the formation or intensification of storms, and failure of the climate-change mafia’s forecast demonstrates that their theories are incorrect.

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It dares not

Vincent J. Curtis

24 Sept 24

RE: What will replace the carbon tax? Hamilton Spectator editorial 24 September 2024

The question the benighted Spectator dare not allow to be asked on its pages is: why bother?  The fact that the Spectator dare not allow to be stated on its pages is: that Canada accounts for only 1.5 percent of world CO2 emissions.

Asia, which includes India and China, are responsible for over 60 percent of global CO2 emissions, and India and China aren’t playing the CO2 reduction game. Canada’s contribution is insignificant; we’re not the problem and aren’t the solution.

America, China, India, Germany, and Australia are a few trading partners that have no carbon tax.  By having one, we disadvantage our producers and exporters.  Canada’s carbon tax represents nothing but a stage for moral posturing; it has no effect whatsoever on weather, climate, or the growth of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Canada’s carbon tax can, with the safety of world in mind, be scrapped without replacement.

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Beware the use of rhetoric

Vincent J. Curtis

19 Sept 24

RE: Beware the power of rhetoric. Op-ed by Ronald Evans. The Hamilton Spectator 19 Sept 24

Aristotle wrote the book on rhetoric; he called it, oddly enough, the Art of Rhetoric.  Nowadays, we would call rhetoric “persuasive speech”, or more bluntly, “selling.” Ronald Evans defines rhetoric as “an emotional tool that can inspire audiences to right wrongs and to strive for a better world.”

One would hope that a retired school teacher could do a better job with his definitions, and would be solicitous of philosophical accuracy if he was going to hang an article on one.

As a work of rhetoric, his article, cautioning us of the power of rhetoric, was a failure. It was unpersuasive, and not, in fact, about rhetoric at all.  After its prefatory remarks, it slid into another tiresome, and tedious, “I hate Trump” diatribe.

Speaking of the power of rhetoric, the extreme rhetoric used against Trump, that he’s a racist, sexist, fascist, lying threat to democracy; by the Left might be in part responsible for the two attempts on his life, and perhaps the Left ought to tone it down.

Trump’s going to be the next President of the United States, and the Left can feel it coming.

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Critics are failing the science test.

Vincent J. Curtis

17 Sept 24

RE: Government are failing the climate test. Guest editorial by Robert Evans. The Hamilton Spectator 17 Sept 24

The problem with activist editorial writers is that all they know about “the science” is what they read in the funny papers. And they have developed a facility for ignoring inconvenient political facts.

Robert Hicks writes that heat pumps are a “renewable energy solution.” No, they’re not; they run off electricity, however generated. They’re very poor for heating homes in Canadian winters, especially the winter cold that is experienced in Canada’s prairie provinces.

The claim that rising CO2 will cause global temperature to rise by 1.5C is also false. Global temperature may well rise above 1.5, but it won’t be due to CO2. This is the physics: if CO2 is doubled from 400 to 800 ppm, it will increase “greenhouse forcing” by 3.7 W/m2, which results in a temperature increase of 0.7C. These are IPCC’s own figures. To get to 1.5C, greenhouse forcing has to rise by 9 W/m2, which is impossible by CO2.

Lastly, politics. Asia accounts for 60 percent of global CO2 emissions; Canada, only 1.5 percent. Canada isn’t the problem, and can’t be the solution.  Asian countries aren’t playing the CO2 reduction game, so if you think rising CO2 will bring about global doom, prepare yourself accordingly: there is, apparently, no place to hide.

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Warmed over Malthus, again

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Sept 24

RE: Has earth’s carrying capacity been reached? Spectator editorial by Wayne Poole. 16 Sept 24.

The thesis that Wayne Poole offers is called Malthusianism, after economist Thomas Malthus who, in 1798, said that the earth’s carrying capacity was within sight.  Even Poole, inter alia, admits the falsity of his claim when he says that the earth’s population is expected to increase by 36 percent, from 7.6 billion to 10.4 billion.  How can such a staggering increase be possible if carrying capacity has been reached?

There is also something profoundly racist in Poole’s thesis. Where the earth’s population is growing is in Africa, India, and China. If you’re going to cut out human population, logically, those are the places to start. But if Poole’s future must tolerate those numbers, those population must at least remain poor, for by electrification and industrialization, the world emissions of CO2 will increase.

I have noted that people who talk about “sustainability” have only the vaguest idea of what they mean. No part of the life-cycle of an insect is “sustainable”, yet insects have been around for over 100 million years!

The more extreme holders of Poole’s view maintain that the human population must drop by 75%, to 2 billion, by the end of the century for the planet to survive. A genocide of humanity is where Poole’s logic takes you.

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