Why there's a doctor shortage

Stick to your knitting

Vincent J. Curtis

5 June 23

RE: 400 doctors stand against fossil fuel expansion.  Op-ed by Dr. Samantha Green.  She is president-elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.  The Hamilton Spectator 5 June 23.

There’s a doctor shortage in Ontario.  If you want to know why, look no further than this article.  Here are 400 doctors who have time to engage in moral narcissism, and time to say stupid things about matters they know nothing about.

Climate change presents threats to health?  Let’s disregard that climate change is a hoax, but given the numbers of climates around the world, from Arctic to Equatorial, mankind faces and overcomes all sorts of different climates.  That “air pollution causes one in sever premature deaths in Canada” is a canard that I refuted when the “pre-mature deaths” business was first floated by the OMA twenty years ago.  (1500 “pre-mature” deaths per year or some such were allegedly caused by the Nanticoke and Lambton coal fired power plants, and the OMA wanted them closed early.)

Natural gas is a fantastic source of energy for electrical generation: it’s clean burning, cheap, abundant, rich in hydrogen, and the generators can be fast cycled to meet rapid changes in demand.  The Chinese unreliables, wind and solar, couldn’t be used without natural gas power generation to back them up.  Guess what the doctors prescribe.

The doctors also swallowed the nonsense about wind and solar being less expensive than natural gas generation.  Never mind the accounting chicanery in the assumptions, when they can’t produce power, the Chinese unreliables are highly expensive, and useless, white elephants.

The doctors should never mind the climate change nonsense.  Fix something in their bailiwick, like wait times, or cancer.

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