Algore and his list

Vincent J. Curtis

10 Nov 22

RE: Gore announces fossil fuel inventory.  An AP sotry by Samy Magdy.  The Hamilton Spectator 10 Nov 22.

As even his friends like Richard Branson and the Emir of Qatar know, when you’re dealing with Al Gore, check your wallet.  His Academy Award winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was inconveniently declared by British judiciary to be devoid of truth and full of falsehood.  At his 2007 Nobel Prize lecture, Gore predicted that the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free by 2014.  We’re still waiting.  Now, he’s claiming to have identified the top 14 top greenhouse gas emitters.  Strangely, they are all “gas and oilfields and their associated facilities,” whatever that means.

Why top 14?  It goes unsaid, but that number was likely selected to exclude inconvenient things, like having to mention India and China.  What’s also strange is that if you google “top CO2 emitters” the results all come back by country.  There’s not a steel making facility or a coal-fired power plant on the list.  It’s all by country, meaning that Gore’s alleged list is based on proprietary data that can’t - and won’t - be cross-checked.  The list is too convenient.

The “Just Stop Oil” campaign is big right now, and by identifying oil and gas fields as the 14 largest emitters of greenhouse gases, it folds nicely into the latest and most energetic group of left-wing extremists.  Gore is nothing if not a keen searcher of a parade to jump in front of.

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Gore has also claimed to have invented the internet, and for this Google put him on its Board after he lost the 2000 presidential election.

Gore was the first to take an electoral challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court, in Bush v. Gore disputing the electoral count in Florida.  That gave Democrats the excuse to claim that Bush was “chosen, not elected” president, and to deny that Bush was “their president.”  Election denying began with Gore.

McKenna lectures banks over greenwashing.

Rules for Radicals Applied

Vincent J. Curtis

9 Nov 22

RE: Report calls out empty climate promises.  A CP story by Ian Bickis.  The Hamilton Spectator 9 Nov 22.

Catherine McKenna, once Canada’s Minister of the Environment and a notorious climate change nag, has found new employment.  She now hectors the world on its shortcomings with the authority of Chair of some UN “expert” group on the net zero question.  She delivered her lecture from the podium of the COP27 conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

McKenna demonstrated the application of four of Saul D. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.  The target of McKenna’s lecturing were investment institutions and banks.  How a bank contributes to CO2 emissions is kind of a mystery.  They own buildings that are heated and air conditioned, and they have employees that expel CO2 as they breathe, but they don’t operate major truck fleets, and you don’t associate banks with smokestacks.  With enough indecent hectoring, the banks signed on to “net-zero.”  It should be easy, since they’re as close to zero as a thing can be and still be alive.

Having secured their adhesion to net-zero ideology by indecent means, whining, screaming, and slandering, they are then accused by McKenna of not living up to their commitments, called “greenwashing.”  This exhibits three of Alinsky’s Rules:

3.      Go outside the expertise of the enemy. (the alleged science of climate change.)

4.      Make the enemy live up to its own book rules. (decency, politeness)

8.      Keep the pressure on.  (by constant hectoring.)

Keen observers will notice that the term enemy also fits the description of innocent, middle class and working class people.

The banks were not supposed to lend money to the oil and gas industry.

“We have set very clear red lines on greenwashing,” lectured McKenna as she wagged her finger.  “You cannot claim to be net zero by continuing to build or invest in new fossil fuel supply.”

Logic is not McKenna’s long suit.  Nor is it the long suit of practically all professional and semi-professional climate alarmists.  A bank itself can make its already small carbon footprint even smaller, plant some trees and strive to be net zero itself.  But as a public institution, it has to do business with public as it is.  It cannot by law discriminate.  It has to do business with the oil man, the farmer, and the forestry company each according to the same set of rules.  In its war against carbon, the climate alarmists don’t count the lending to the farmer, who grows crops, or the forestry company, that plants trees and fixes carbon, as “net-zero offsets” to lending to the oil man.  Why they can’t is never explained.

The climate alarmists indecently exploit the decency of ordinary people who just want to go about their business unmolested.  All in accordance with Alinsky’s Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

What could better describe the action of thirty four years of carbon hatred?

The disinvestment strategy has been employed before, against South Africa and, to this day, Israel.  The oil, gas, and coal businesses are the latest to get the disinvestment treatment.  Except it doesn’t work against China, which last year minded three million tons of its own coal.  It also is Russia’s newest biggest customer for oil and gas that used to go to Western Europe.

Climate alarmism is, and always has been, targeted at western civilization. Extinction Rebellion exists and operates in the West and not in Saudi Arabia or China.  Aramco is the largest oil company in the world, but because it’s owned by Saudi Arabia it never gets included among the dastardly oil companies that make so much money.  (Never mind Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or Google, they’re our friends!)

Climate alarmism has become an anti-west religion, and McKenna has become one of its harridan high priestesses.  Her job, at which she is well qualified, is to hector and nag others for their climate shortcomings, which has come to called “greenwashing.”  Saul D. Alinsky is smiling in hell.

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Climate collapse

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Nov 22

 

The new buzzword among climate alarmists is “climate collapse.”  You see on Twitter and will soon be hearing it at the COP27 Conference.  The expression “climate collapse” is a poetical metaphor intended to scare people.  There is no physical reality to it.

Climate exists in the earth’s atmosphere.  Climate is a condition of the earth’s atmosphere.  Nobody is saying the earth’s atmosphere is going to collapse, or describes what that collapse would even look like.  Similarly, no one is describing what a climate “collapse” would look like.  If a house painted red were repainted brown, no one would say that the house had collapsed.  No one would say the color had collapsed.  Likewise, it makes no sense to say that the earth’s climate (again, a vague notion since the earth has many climates) collapsed because it changed.

Forewarned is forearmed.  If a speaker does wax poetic about climate collapse, you have to wonder if they actually know what they are saying, or if they are merely trying to scare you into something.  And if they’re trying to scare you, why is fear a necessary motivator since fear tends to shut down rational thought?

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He let the cat out of the bag

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Nov 22

RE: Climate woes bad and getting worse faster, says UN report.  An AP story by Seth Borenstein.  The Hamilton Spectator 7 Nov 22.

“The only reason the globe hasn’t broken annual temperature records in the past few years is a rare, three-year La Nina weather phenomenon,” said World Meteorological Organization chief Petteri Taalas at the COP27 conference being held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.  The WMO just admitted that a natural phenomenon, a La Nina event, produces powerful, long term climate modifications that suppress global warming.

That drought and those forest fires in the western U.S. and Canada were due to La Nina, not CO2 emitted by man.  All that bewailing we heard of these weather events being proof of man-caused global warming turned out to be crapola.  But don’t expect to hear apologies from the alleged experts any time soon.  Don’t expect to hear, “we got it wrong.”

There is also the El Nino event, which is warm Pacific water rising to the surface with its effects of warming and putting humidity into the atmosphere.  The Atlantic Ocean experiences the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation, in which water from the depths rises to the surface with warming or cooling effects on the atmosphere above.  But you never hear about these things that profoundly affect climate.  Why?

Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama (Huntsville) explains, “The modelling community is a global marching army whose careers depend on funding of climate model.”  It’s a racket to scare people to keep getting money.  “There are legions of scientists trying to get money out of Congress…and money is given in proportion to the public interest.”

It doesn’t pay a climate scientist to say there’s nothing to worry about, and the community is big enough that lots of money is needed to keep it sustained.  It pays to keep the scare in people, and to keep climate disaster in the headlines.

Spencer also explained that models are tweeked to produce results that seem reasonable to the modeller.

Numerous climate skeptics have had papers published in peer-reviewed climate journals and the conclusions are simply ignored.  They aren’t challenged or rebutted; just ignored because it doesn’t pay to call attention to disputes about how disastrous the future will be.

I expect a blizzard of unchallenged lies to fall in the Sinai desert over the COP27 conference.

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Emergencies Act hearings

 Vincent J. Curtis

5 Nov 22

The Emergencies Act hearings this week heard from the principals who emerged as leaders of the Freedom Convoy:  Chris Barber, Tamara Lich, Tom Marazzo, and Daniel Bulford.  The overwhelming impression is that the Convoy attracted a lot of talent after it was formed.  The message of the Convoy resonated with a lot of people, as the reception the Convoy received across Canada and the tremendous financial support it so quickly received show.

The Convoy was formed by serious working people, people in their thirties through fifties, owner/operators most of them.  These people run million dollar businesses and have paid taxes, lots of taxes, their entire working lives.  They were lionized as essential workers through most of the pandemic.  Until Trudeau’s dictatorial style pushed them too far.  The vaccine mandates were obviously useless, for the alleged “vaccines” didn’t work.  Trudeau himself became the poster boy of vaccine uselessness.  Double vaxxed and boosted, he came down with COVID, conveniently, just before the Convoy arrived in Ottawa.

As early as January 24^th, the Trudeau government began information operations to discredit the Convoy, leaking false information to its court eunuchs in the media.  Every sparrow that fell in Canada while the Convoy was in Ottawa was laid at the feet of the Convoy.  When, after two weeks, the Convoy astonishingly remained resolute, Trudeau came out of hiding to denounce these working people as “extremists, racists, misogynists, those of unacceptable views, who don’t believe in science, and who take up space.”  Meanwhile, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson claimed the truckers were “lacking in respect.”

The CBC and the Toronto Star were, and remain, especially notorious in class snobbery towards those hard working Canadians who only wanted the government to leave them alone.

The Convoy wanted its grievances redressed, but no government official would even talk to them.  Finally, the government declared war on them through the Emergencies Act, invented new laws, and froze bank accounts across Canada.  It tried to seize the money raised to support the Convoy.  It arrested and charged Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, who has spent more time incarcerated than a convicted offender.  All because Justin Trudeau didn’t want to look weak by compromising, by saying “we’ll find another way.”

It is Mr. Trudeau who has created a pool of hatred and anger in this country that will take decades to go away.

Class snobbery and contempt are terrible weapons to use against hard-working, tax-paying, salt-of-the-earth Canadians.

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Against a rising tide of immigration

Vincent J. Curtis

2 Nov 22

RE: Critics say Ontario aims to pave wetlands, sell conservation lands.  By Matthew van Dongen.  The Hamilton Spectator 2 Nov 22.

RE: Ottawa to welcome 500,000 immigrants per year.  CP story by Lee Berthiaume.

You have to shake your head at the protestations of Hamilton’s ecowarriors, climate crazies, and urban boundary fanatics.  Their favorite government, the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau just announced that it plans to increase immigrations levels to 500,000 per year.  This, despite twenty-three percent of Canada’s entire population being non-citizens.

Half a million new bodies a year adds ten million tons per year to Canada’s CO2 emissions.  Ottawa funded the construction of 17,000 new homes to deal with the existing housing crisis; that’s a ratio of 29 persons per home built by Ottawa..  In three years, the Trudeau Liberals will have brought in the equivalent in population of the city of Ottawa and the city of Hamilton combined.  Those people need space!

If you don’t want to expand Hamilton’s urban boundary, you can’t hold your position with immigration levels that high.  If you think Canada must do its share to fight climate change, the country can’t meet its net zero emission goals when immigration is pushing emissions up at the rate of ten million tons per year.  If you want to protect the wetlands around Hamilton, you won’t be able to - having to settle so many newcomers, who will have to be fed out of Canada’s domestic food supply for the most part.  Even if people don’t settle on wetlands, those lands will be needed for crops and pasture.

Ecowarriors can’t think one dimensionally any more.

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Doug Ford causes tooth decay

 Vincent J. Curtis

1 Nov 22

RE: Ford is gambling with our future.  Op-ed by Kim Perrotta and Mili Roy.  Kim Perrotta MHSS is an environmental health specialist and the author of the 2002 report Beyond Coal: Power, Public Health and the Environment.  Dr. Mili Roy is a practicing physician and medical editor and assistant professor with the department of ophthalmology, faculty of medicine, University of Toronto.  She serves as Ontario regional chair of the Canadian Physicians for the Environment.  The Hamilton Spectator 1 Nov 22.

“As dental professionals we believe that climate change is responsible for tooth decay, and Doug Ford is responsible.”

“As proof that the climate is changing we offer the droughts, floods, heat waves, storms and forest fires that happen around the world.  These shouldn’t be happening, or happening with this intensity and frequency.”

"The cause of climate change is the burning of low-cost, reliable fossil fuels.  Doug Ford plans to increase the amount of natural gas fired electrical power generation in Ontario, which will contribute to climate change.”

“Relying on our authority as dental professional, we say that climate change causes tooth decay.  Since he is going to increase climate change, Doug Ford is responsible for tooth decay in your children.”

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