Good as far as it goes but lets not forget the Left in the US and Canadian commitment to shut down the fossil fuel industry. That sent fuel prices rocketing well before the Russian invasion.
Of course they are shutting down fossil. Biden and many Dem govs are committed to a solar switch by 2030. California has already outlawed some gasoline engines. And what is "renewable" about windmills. They kill 30 million critters per year vs 0 for fracking.
More people die from cold than global warming each year on planet earth. With Germany, Canada, U.S and other woke countries restricting supply of fossil fuels, while providing insufficient amounts of green substitutes - millions more will freeze to death in the coming years. The woke politicians however will be toasty warm.
Geneva, 18 May 2022 (WMO) - Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021. This is yet another clear sign that human activities are causing planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere, with harmful and long-lasting ramifications for sustainable development and ecosystems, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Extreme weather – the day-to-day “face” of climate change – led to hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses and wreaked a heavy toll on human lives and well-being and triggered shocks for food and water security and displacement that have accentuated in 2022.
The WMO is a group within the UN and they do zero primary research. The website talks much about "facilititating" the work of other groups with real scientists. The WMO does make broad brushed statements that support the UN agenda to transfer wealth from Western countries to other countries. The beneficiaries could care less about destroying the environment if it puts that cash in their pockets. There are no biographies so going by the looks of things, it looks like a lot of English major interns. https://public.wmo.int/en/about-us/who-we-are
Dont even start with this "change" thing. Of course it changes. It changes with solar activity, it changes with night, it changes with ocean current cycles. But as a matter of fact, for the past hundreds of millions of years, global temps are plus/minus a few degrees despite the fact that CO2 has plummeted. In short, there is nothing that people do that makes for any weather change. This whole Green House/CO2 thing is a huge fraud designed by the Kremlin and Peking (and others) to stunt Western civilization while the commies burn anything and everything to skyrocket their own growth. https://www.ctrmcenter.com/blog/just-exactly-what-does-climate-denier-mean/
Quite right ! if we keep going down the Solar and windmill path . . . All components coming from China . . . the next thing we know China wil Rule the west . . . with No fossil fuels to back us up.
OH . . . PS . . . to build solar panels and wind turbines . . . It takes more fossil fuels to produce them - in China - than they will ever replace in their productive lifetimes . . .
Actually the turbines will make up more than enough power to pay for its own construction but it does so inefficiently vs modern Cogen plants or even coal plants with state of art emissions scrubbers. Wind is so inefficient, it must be subsidized just like electric cars. If they really were that good, they would be able to compete without tax payer support.
Great reporting again. I believe PM Justin Trudeau MUST change his commitment towards Climate Change. World wide, oil and gas is required in so many ways, we must continue to exploit our resources in a climate friendly manner. Our economy needs that industry and we must promote LNG projects. Canada should not be importing any oil and gas from foreign countries. If Provinces choose to do so, then tax their imported oil and gas accordingly.
OK . . . During may and June . . . China imported More Russian Oil than ever before . . . freeing up oil from other countries to sell to the west. India too is buying Russian oil . . . Again freeing up oil from other countries to sell to Europeans. Global Oil supplies are a Big Balance . . . Stop buying from me . . . I will sell to someone else ! That is why this week oil prices in the West dropped . . .
The REAL problem with fossil Fuels is what is attached to the CO2 going up the smoke stack . . .
The by-products from burning fossil fuels:
1. Sulfur dioxide (SO2), which contributes to acid rain and respiratory illnesses
2. Nitrogen oxides (NOx), which contribute to smog and respiratory illnesses
3. Particulates, which contribute to smog, haze, and respiratory illnesses and lung disease
4. Mercury and other heavy metals linked to both neurological and developmental damage
5. Fly ash and bottom ash, that are residues created when power plants burn coal
All are significantly reduced when we invest $800,000 million. As we see at Beldune New Brunswick. A coal fired power plant.
Let’s work smarter, Not Harder . . . Be Visionaries, with a Goal – Clean-up Now!
Flue gas treatment technologies
“Scrubbers is the generic term applied to flue gas treatment processes. There are both liquid, and solid-type gas treatment processes that are a function of the physical and chemical properties of the contaminant being removed. Among others, they include: wet scrubbers, dry scrubbers, adsorbents and mercury removal processes that chemically convert volatile elemental mercury in the hot flue gas into solid water-soluble salts that can be collected. There are also variants such as electrostatic precipitators and desulfurizing processes.
The Clean Air Act (USA) requirements have driven development and installation of many technologies to reduce hazardous air pollutants in many industries. Several common approaches for flue gas cleanup applications have been generally described here. Scrubbers of various types are widely used commercially and have been found to be feasible technologies for numerous combustion applications, particularly for coal and oil electric power generation and other heat-dependent applications. Emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides, toxic stable organic chemicals, mercury and particulates can be managed to high degrees of removal.”
Solutions . . . Not just finger pointing at the obvious problems . . .
It is long overdue that humans visit the truth of Science in all of our Environmentalist Narratives. Clean-up the Planet of foul effluent first. Set CO2 on the back burner for now. Our obsession with CO2 is NOT helping the clean-up of the Environment. It is holding back the progress towards cleaning up of the pollution that is truly destroying the Environment on Planet Earth.
Hi, Just saw your post about the AFN on the National Post. You are right that there is a quiet revolution slowly happening. Here is some of the thinking that's been at work over the years. https://champions.substack.com/p/a-dream-like-mine and https://champions.substack.com/p/beyond-just-protesting. I know you keep your finger on the pulse of First Nations stuff. Thought you would enjoy the thought experiment that these two essays raise on "Reconciliation". Best regards and much respect \o/ Meaghan Walker-Williams
What does "affording" have to do with it? If you got an 99% on your college boards, would you cough up a couple points to someone who didnt put in the time to study? The US also spends far more on foreign aid but for any organization to work, they have to have skin in the game. There are far too many countries that treat the UN like a perpetual vacation in NYC
Great article Diane. I liked “Greta Thunberg’s favourite photo-op partner, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to drop his climate zealotry.” So accurate. I’m sure all of Europe would agree with that. ‘Renewables’ right now seem like a distant dream unless you include nuclear energy which the EU endorsed Wednesday as ‘green’.
Yes Trudeau lightweight and full of 'climate zealotry' as is Biden. Read fake Invisible Catasprophes and Threats of Doom by Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, to find out why this hysteria about climate change is fake, esp. David Attenborough's fear mongering. Is there one party in PC Canada exposing the lies?
Good as far as it goes but lets not forget the Left in the US and Canadian commitment to shut down the fossil fuel industry. That sent fuel prices rocketing well before the Russian invasion.
No one is trying to “shut down” fossil fuels. There is and must be an investment in renewable energy, however.
Of course they are shutting down fossil. Biden and many Dem govs are committed to a solar switch by 2030. California has already outlawed some gasoline engines. And what is "renewable" about windmills. They kill 30 million critters per year vs 0 for fracking.
Where are you getting those numbers?Climate change is real.
More people die from cold than global warming each year on planet earth. With Germany, Canada, U.S and other woke countries restricting supply of fossil fuels, while providing insufficient amounts of green substitutes - millions more will freeze to death in the coming years. The woke politicians however will be toasty warm.
Geneva, 18 May 2022 (WMO) - Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021. This is yet another clear sign that human activities are causing planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere, with harmful and long-lasting ramifications for sustainable development and ecosystems, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Extreme weather – the day-to-day “face” of climate change – led to hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses and wreaked a heavy toll on human lives and well-being and triggered shocks for food and water security and displacement that have accentuated in 2022.
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/four-key-climate-change-indicators-break-records-2021
The WMO is a group within the UN and they do zero primary research. The website talks much about "facilititating" the work of other groups with real scientists. The WMO does make broad brushed statements that support the UN agenda to transfer wealth from Western countries to other countries. The beneficiaries could care less about destroying the environment if it puts that cash in their pockets. There are no biographies so going by the looks of things, it looks like a lot of English major interns. https://public.wmo.int/en/about-us/who-we-are
Indeed - and this problem is grossly under reported. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/03/30/green-europe-is-killing-40000-poor-people-a-year/
Dont even start with this "change" thing. Of course it changes. It changes with solar activity, it changes with night, it changes with ocean current cycles. But as a matter of fact, for the past hundreds of millions of years, global temps are plus/minus a few degrees despite the fact that CO2 has plummeted. In short, there is nothing that people do that makes for any weather change. This whole Green House/CO2 thing is a huge fraud designed by the Kremlin and Peking (and others) to stunt Western civilization while the commies burn anything and everything to skyrocket their own growth. https://www.ctrmcenter.com/blog/just-exactly-what-does-climate-denier-mean/
Quite right ! if we keep going down the Solar and windmill path . . . All components coming from China . . . the next thing we know China wil Rule the west . . . with No fossil fuels to back us up.
OH . . . PS . . . to build solar panels and wind turbines . . . It takes more fossil fuels to produce them - in China - than they will ever replace in their productive lifetimes . . .
https://www.allaboutenergy.net/350-energy/today/electric-vehicles-and-batteries/3199-batteries-renewable-energy-and-evs?highlight=WyJqaW0iLCJsZSIsIm1haXN0cmUiLCJqaW0gbGUiLCJqaW0gbGUgbWFpc3RyZSIsImxlIG1haXN0cmUiXQ==
Time for us all wake up . . . 'Clean Green' is an elitist propaganda Trap . . .
Actually the turbines will make up more than enough power to pay for its own construction but it does so inefficiently vs modern Cogen plants or even coal plants with state of art emissions scrubbers. Wind is so inefficient, it must be subsidized just like electric cars. If they really were that good, they would be able to compete without tax payer support.
So true and now Germany turning to burning coal.
And unbelievably chopping down forests to burn wood - imagine the destruction of wildlife!! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/europe-losing-forest-to-harvesting-at-alarming-rate-data-suggests
Great reporting again. I believe PM Justin Trudeau MUST change his commitment towards Climate Change. World wide, oil and gas is required in so many ways, we must continue to exploit our resources in a climate friendly manner. Our economy needs that industry and we must promote LNG projects. Canada should not be importing any oil and gas from foreign countries. If Provinces choose to do so, then tax their imported oil and gas accordingly.
Oh dear so typically the Guardian. I stopped reading its of so PC stuff years ago but bet Justin loves it.
OK . . . During may and June . . . China imported More Russian Oil than ever before . . . freeing up oil from other countries to sell to the west. India too is buying Russian oil . . . Again freeing up oil from other countries to sell to Europeans. Global Oil supplies are a Big Balance . . . Stop buying from me . . . I will sell to someone else ! That is why this week oil prices in the West dropped . . .
The REAL problem with fossil Fuels is what is attached to the CO2 going up the smoke stack . . .
The by-products from burning fossil fuels:
1. Sulfur dioxide (SO2), which contributes to acid rain and respiratory illnesses
2. Nitrogen oxides (NOx), which contribute to smog and respiratory illnesses
3. Particulates, which contribute to smog, haze, and respiratory illnesses and lung disease
4. Mercury and other heavy metals linked to both neurological and developmental damage
5. Fly ash and bottom ash, that are residues created when power plants burn coal
All are significantly reduced when we invest $800,000 million. As we see at Beldune New Brunswick. A coal fired power plant.
Let’s work smarter, Not Harder . . . Be Visionaries, with a Goal – Clean-up Now!
Flue gas treatment technologies
“Scrubbers is the generic term applied to flue gas treatment processes. There are both liquid, and solid-type gas treatment processes that are a function of the physical and chemical properties of the contaminant being removed. Among others, they include: wet scrubbers, dry scrubbers, adsorbents and mercury removal processes that chemically convert volatile elemental mercury in the hot flue gas into solid water-soluble salts that can be collected. There are also variants such as electrostatic precipitators and desulfurizing processes.
The Clean Air Act (USA) requirements have driven development and installation of many technologies to reduce hazardous air pollutants in many industries. Several common approaches for flue gas cleanup applications have been generally described here. Scrubbers of various types are widely used commercially and have been found to be feasible technologies for numerous combustion applications, particularly for coal and oil electric power generation and other heat-dependent applications. Emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides, toxic stable organic chemicals, mercury and particulates can be managed to high degrees of removal.”
https://www.watertechonline.com/wastewater/article/15550703/smokestack-scrubbers-how-they-work-and-why-they-are-used
Solutions . . . Not just finger pointing at the obvious problems . . .
It is long overdue that humans visit the truth of Science in all of our Environmentalist Narratives. Clean-up the Planet of foul effluent first. Set CO2 on the back burner for now. Our obsession with CO2 is NOT helping the clean-up of the Environment. It is holding back the progress towards cleaning up of the pollution that is truly destroying the Environment on Planet Earth.
See . . . https://www.allaboutenergy.net/350-energy/today/electric-vehicles-and-batteries/3199-batteries-renewable-energy-and-evs?highlight=WyJqaW0iLCJsZSIsIm1haXN0cmUiLCJqaW0gbGUiLCJqaW0gbGUgbWFpc3RyZSIsImxlIG1haXN0cmUiXQ==
Add . . . https://www.allaboutenergy.net/270-energy/today/multiple-energy-types/world/3208-clean-green-energy-net-zero-fairy-tales-on-steroids?highlight=WyJqaW0iLCJsZSIsIm1haXN0cmUiLCJqaW0gbGUiLCJqaW0gbGUgbWFpc3RyZSIsImxlIG1haXN0cmUiXQ==
My Thoughts
Hi, Just saw your post about the AFN on the National Post. You are right that there is a quiet revolution slowly happening. Here is some of the thinking that's been at work over the years. https://champions.substack.com/p/a-dream-like-mine and https://champions.substack.com/p/beyond-just-protesting. I know you keep your finger on the pulse of First Nations stuff. Thought you would enjoy the thought experiment that these two essays raise on "Reconciliation". Best regards and much respect \o/ Meaghan Walker-Williams
THANKS FOR INFORMATION. D
Thanks Diane. Cranks and pseudo intellectual's paper.
What does "affording" have to do with it? If you got an 99% on your college boards, would you cough up a couple points to someone who didnt put in the time to study? The US also spends far more on foreign aid but for any organization to work, they have to have skin in the game. There are far too many countries that treat the UN like a perpetual vacation in NYC
Great article Diane. I liked “Greta Thunberg’s favourite photo-op partner, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to drop his climate zealotry.” So accurate. I’m sure all of Europe would agree with that. ‘Renewables’ right now seem like a distant dream unless you include nuclear energy which the EU endorsed Wednesday as ‘green’.
Yes Trudeau lightweight and full of 'climate zealotry' as is Biden. Read fake Invisible Catasprophes and Threats of Doom by Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, to find out why this hysteria about climate change is fake, esp. David Attenborough's fear mongering. Is there one party in PC Canada exposing the lies?