More from the Linney Bin & other stories

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Nov 23

RE: Students to take part in climate rally. Op-ed by Grant Linney, who boasts of being trained by Al Gore in 2010 and having given over 200 presentations on climate. The Hamilton Spectator 14 Nov 23.

If there’s anything good about students out protesting over climate, it’s that they won’t be in class having their heads stuffed with nonsense about climate change.  Grant Linney worries over the psychological harm coming to students because of this “existential crisis on young people,” which amount to nothing more than his propaganda.

What is “climate” anyway? Climate is an opinion of what the weather should be based on the previous 30 years. The planet is still warming from the Little Ice Age, and some experts believe still warming from the last (Pliocene) ice age.  There is no correlation between rising CO2 and temperature, as there have been period of falling and long periods of stable global temperature despite continuously rising CO2.

The business of 1.5 or 2.0 was pulled out of a hat, for no one know what the best climate possible is; perhaps the Holocene Climatic Optimum, from 9,500 to 5,500 years ago when temperatures were much higher than today.  Nevertheless, the latest climate physics shows that a doubling of CO2 from 400 to 800 ppm will result in a temperature rise of only 0.72℃.  Nothing to worry about.

If there was a prison for spreading climate misinformation, Linney belongs in it next to his pal, Al Gore.

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Waddle the plank

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Nov 23

RE: HCA Climate plan doesn’t match threat, director says. Story by Richard Leitner.  The Hamilton Spectator 14 Nov 23

Some of the climate crazies on the HCA board are worse than others.  Brian McHattie, for instance, thinks that the HCA, by its own heroic actions, save the planet, or at least the HCA lands, from “climate change” by its own heroic efforts.  In the grip of some fever or other, McHattie was heard to expostulate about a need for “extraordinary responses”

HCA Climate Director Fionnula Wade tried to soothe the feverish McHattie with comforting words about having spent scads of thousands on an EV SUV, and will now spend near four-score thousand more on multiple places to plug it in - and receive a grant of 5k for it!  In addition, near three-score thousands were spent on a building, and reduced its carbon footprint by 22 tons per year – the equivalent of five gas-powered vehicles off the road, she gushed.

The average carbon footprint of a Canadian is 20 tons per year.  The HCA could have saved all the money and still cut its CO2 emissions if Brian McHattie quit the board and the place left unfilled. The amount could be doubled if Wade’s position were deemed redundant.

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Nothing to offer

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Nov 23

RE: Advocates call on Council to reform Board of health. Story by Teviah Moro. The Hamilton Spectator 14 Nov 23

These “advocates” want a Board that reflects the city’s diversity. What they mean by diversity is unclear: is it racial diversity, sexual diversity, diversity in professional competence, or these and more?

Nothing could be more democratic, representative, professional, as well as responsible than the current organiztion of the Board, which consists of 16 city councillors who are informed by public health staff.  These ‘advocates’ want something, on the grounds of diversity, that isn’t representative, is less professional, and, most importantly, isn’t responsible.  The bad, new idea would be of a Board that is “fully separate from council” and have “final decision making power” – and here’s the funny part – with powers shared between the city’s elected representatives and ‘”community representatives.”

These advocates need lessons on civics before they can seize control of the Board of Health; the city council are the community’s representatives, by law not self-appointment.

The first question Councillors should ask the advocates is, “where are you going to get the money?” and the second is, “who is going to enforce your ‘final’ decisions?”

The genius of the British-Canadian constitutional principle of political fusion is found in the current structure of the Board; change will only result in inefficiency.

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