Can’t take the heat

Vincent J. Curtis

31 Aug 22

RE: Going backwards on energy policy.  O-ed by Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 31 Aug 22.

Climate change advocacy is becoming too stupid for words.  You might as well discuss the matter with a tape recorder.  Angela Bischoff is a climate change sound truck by profession.

By bringing 400,000 immigrants into Canada last year, Justin Trudeau added 8 Megatonnes of CO2 equivalent to Canada’s carbon footprint.  Bischoff wants Ontario to pay more attention to insulation. (Never mind the housing crisis!)

She thinks it bad that Ontario plans to extend natural gas pipeline service to heat homes in rural communities, saying heat pumps are better.  But where do you get the electricity to run a heat pump?  By burning natural gas in an electrical generator, you say?  Right.  Windmills don’t turn under Arctic highs, so when it’s coldest outside, that heat pump isn’t working. (Not that they’re much effective anyway when the temperature outside is negative 30℃.)

It gets worse.  Decades of stupidity is coming home to roost in Europe as they face enormous energy shortages as winter comes.  Germans are cutting down trees, and Poles are buying coal in anticipation.

“We need a plan to lower our climate damage,” says Bischoff.  Climate damage?  What hard data have you got on that?  Don’t give me models, give me data.  What are the units of measurement of “climate damage?”  Don’t know?  That would explain why you have no data.

Climate change is so weak, so full of holes, and so nonsensical that the Spectator dare not run an extended critique of it lest the scales fall from people’s eyes and the curtain hiding the Wizard of Oz be torn away.

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