75 Replies to “November 19, 2022: Reader Tips”

  1. COP27 Fail: John Kerry MIA as Delegates Demand the USA Pay for “Loss and Damage”

    The United States, historically the world’s biggest polluter, has resisted the idea of compensation for climate-related disasters, fearing it could face unlimited liability. But the country stood increasingly isolated on Friday after the European Union and a vocal group of developing countries had backed different plans to establish a new fund as early as this year.

    What could go wrong?

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/18/cop27-fail-john-kerry-mia-as-delegates-demand-the-usa-pay-for-loss-and-damage/

    1. China has emmitted more ‘pollution’ (CO2) in the last eight years than the United Kingdom has emitted since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Let’s go ask them for some reparations eh?

    2. CO2 is not a pollutant no matter how many ignorant supreme court judges think it is, and as far as real pollution goes, China and India are tied for number one.

      1. Addolff and VOWG: It’s funny no one in the article mentioned China or India. I suppose that would be racist. The US will need all of it’s philanthropy funds to feed, clothe and house a million under-educated immigrants per year. Agree, C02 is not a pollutant; unless it got to really high levels i.e. > 5,000 ppm, a level established by OSHA.

        And no one mentioned this unsettled science news from 1980: “Unexpected fluctuations in the amount of solar energy that reaches Earth have been detected by NASA satellite, revealing that the sun is more variable than previously believed”. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/solar-energy-fluctuations-detected

        1. It was estimated that during the Jurassic period CO2 was at around 5000 ppm and things were pretty green back in the day according to ice cores. OSHA is just another waste of taxpayer money.

          1. VOWG – lol I am sure it was green back then but at some point the CO2 level in the air could turn people green.

          2. Paul

            CO2 levels in submarines have been significantly higher than 5000 ppm. No effects.

            And CO2 in exhaled breath is much higher; approximately 40,000 ppm

          3. At one point CO2 was phenomenally greater than it is today. The east slopes of the Rocky Mountains are white. I checked them yesterday and they are still white. That is calcium carbonate, the carbon which was previously in the atmosphere as CO2. All the coal on earth, the oil, natural gas and anything out of organic chemistry was previously in the air as CO2. CO2 was possibly 800,000 ppm instead of 400 ppm and the atmospheric temperature was moderate. At the time the atmospheric pressure was as much as 100 atmospheres. Everything we are told about CO2 and global warming is pure horse shit, which was previously in the air as CO2.

    1. Kinda partial to the P-51 Mustang myself. Although it wasn’t a carrier aircraft.

      What’s amazing about the Mustang is how hard the senior generals in the US Army Airforce fought against accepting it.

      The fact that the British contracted North American Aviation to build it, and then came up with the idea of putting a Merlin engine in it, did not appeal to the very parochial (not invented here) senior US military.

        1. The P51 was developed in America for the British and later adopted by the US. I didn’t know that.

          1. The British signed a contract to develop a plane that existed on paper. 146 days later, first flight on 26 Oct 1940.

            In May 1942 a Rolls-Royce test pilot suggested fitting a Merlin engine in the Mustang. The performance was impressive.

        2. I like the Hellcat too.

          Amazing how much improvement the Allies made in aircraft in such a short time.

          1. Yep look at RAF for example, they were flying Gladiator biplanes in combat in North Africa during the first year of the war and ended up with Meteor Jets.

  3. Momentous:’ Feds advance largest dam demo in U.S. history

    U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward.

    “…a $500 million demolition proposal championed by Native American tribes and environmentalists for years”.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/national/world/2022/11/17/1_6157628.amp.html

    1. That’ll help with their water supply issues.
      Looking forward to the “unprecedented” drought due to global warming.

      1. HiHo: And it won’t help their blackout issues. The article says the dams “only” power about 70,000 homes and then brilliantly concludes “You can make up that power by the way you operate the rest of your facilities or having energy efficiency savings so your customers are using less.”. I guess their calculations didn’t account for EVs using MORE energy in California. A neighbor sold his home in California because energy for AC, pool, etc was hitting $3,000 USD/month. Baby, you aint seen nothin’ yet.

    2. I’d hope that they’re all prepared to do a supervised recording job on whether the salmon actually approve or it was all in the mind of the models used?

      Or are they just going to feel it?

      1. Salmon – The dams have been there 100 years and NOW they had to build fish ladders for hundreds of millions of dollars? Salmon return to where they were spawned through some miraculous homing ability. You can’t return to a place you’ve never been. I guess they’ll start a salmon hatchery at the headwaters. What could go wrong?

        So much for renewable energy. This might be a plan for all of Quebec’s and BC’s (green-energy) dams…

          2. Paul

            David Suzuki sure has a big personal footprint (houses, plane rides etc). for a so-called greenie.

          3. For every one of these bastards, it’s the same: Do as we say, not as we do. Look at John Kerry. F’ing hypocrites.

    2. Bill – agreed he has solid answers to CNN’s questions. He would never qualify for government office under our current (Canadian Liberal) regime.

    1. Well, I think it is also time to give up on judging people who wear masks or do not. It appears that governments are not going to mandate anything this fall. After all, we are grown-ups, a fact forgotten in 2020- until today. Obviously, like most SDA readers, I see no evidence that mask-wearing rules/use, esp. cheap ones, is/was effective.

      Here are a few reasons why I occasionally wear a mask:
      1) Not being “put together”, but needing to go to the corner store – a mask is useful as a “cover up”, saying “I just want to get my stuff and leave and prefer little interaction”, thank you.
      2) Respect for owners of businesses who have different opinions than I do – their house; not mine.
      3) Compromise for gov’t agencies who still require them. I am not an activist!
      4) Healthwise, I have always had fairly bad colds, flues, and get pneumonia easily a couple of times a year. The lingering cough worries other people, so I can cough in my mask without being seen as a social pariah. As well, the BC gov’t decided to take over flu shot scheduling (trying to get us to take the new Covid booster (no way)) , so I can not get a shot easily until late November. As an older person with a new hip, I am not driving to iffy walk-in appointments and lining up. I would like to avoid getting the flu, and masks deter one from touching surfaces and then touching the face.

      I do think people walking down a non-busy street or in cars with masks on seem extreme, or parents who mask children, but maybe they have their reasons or have been overly affected by paid media propaganda.

      Go Truckers!!! I was unhappy that my very early GoFundMe contribution was returned. As Brian Mulroney famously said to Turner, “you had a choice , sir”. The Trudeau government and also awal Conservatives should have talked in early days.

      1. MikeT: That tweet should be posted at SDA. Meanwhile back in Canada they are saying you can’t trust Poilievre because he wanted to use crypto for currency stability while ignoring the democrat connection to the FTX story that was posted in SDA yesterday (Tucker Carlson)..

  10. Liberals crafting a strategy to build a grandiose new mansion for Justin.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/don-martin-now-that-the-24-sussex-sabotage-is-complete-it-s-time-to-call-in-the-demolition-crew-1.6159293

    In the coming months you’ll hear more and more stories that it’s time to demolish 24 Sussex, due to the $40 million ‘renovation’ cost.

    They’ll say it’s time to build a fit for purpose residence for the PM. Of course Justin will have a different opinion on fit for purpose than the rest of us.

    1. joe – building a mansion that Canadians can’t afford is a fitting legacy for our mad prince, don’t you think?

      1. Paul

        Problem is compounded by the fact that we’ll be paying for a bunch of mansions.

        The palatial one at 24 Sussex, plus all the ones built in the south of France with siphoned off money from designing and constructing 24 Sussex.

        1. joe – That would be especially true if it were to be built in Hull. Oh wait, it probably will be since that’s where most of the federal government services are located.

    2. I support demolishing 24 Sussex. A new building will not cost a lot more than repairs and can be made more suitable for a PM residence. Maureen McTeer suggested this year’s ago. Hopefully, Justin will be gone soon.

    1. Just watched it Jim. She is saying the right things, lets hope she can deflect the slings and arrows surely to come. Getting the good news out there using the main stream media will be difficult as they have a decidedly left wing bias, which they claim is the centrist view.
      I wish her the best of luck. The alternative will be the Trudeau, Singh, Notley trifecta of gang green.

      1. Yeah, she mouths all the right platitudes, but then she supports TG’s in women’s sports and wants to build a GD train from Calgary to Banff.

        Not to mention that she’s a quisling from olde.

        Do not trust this one, people. Her feet need to be held to the fire the entire time. She is an opportunist who is here for herself first.

    1. The World would be at peace now if we had allowed Adolph in WWII to cleanse the planet of the plague of jews that infests it.

        1. DB

          Agree the voters are stupid. They buy into we’ll all have EVs.

          Which I suppose is true. EV cars for the elites, public transit EVs for everyone else.

  23. Huh. Some interesting FTX/SBF familial connections.

    https://instapundit.com/554518/

    “Shot: “Nine years ago, when crypto-fraudster [Sam Bankman-Fried] was 19, his mother, a Stanford professor, wrote a very long article making the case that free will is a myth and that we should not blame people for committing crimes.”

    — Michael Shellenberger, yesterday.

    Chaser: Sam Bankman-Fried’s father drafted tax legislation for Elizabeth Warren, donated thousands to Dems.

    —Fox News, yesterday.

    UPDATE: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s family boasts deep ties to Democrat power players.”

  24. Attention anyone in need of snow we have plenty to spare here in Grey County Georgian Bay, environment canada says up to 80cm by Monday, squalls to continue through Saturday night into Monday.
    I guesstimate going by a measure on my deck we have 60cm now.
    Of course I blame climate change (sarc)

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