Author: David

Tree Leaves

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Rise in CO2 has greened Earth.
Naturally, being the BBC, we’re all still doomed to die in an oven, because, theories.
Mostly unrelated to the story, but worth repeating:

And Judith Curry, the former professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, added: “It is inappropriate to dismiss the arguments of the so-called contrarians, since their disagreement with the consensus reflects conflicts of values and a preference for the empirical (i.e. what has been observed) versus the hypothetical (i.e. what is projected from climate models).

Electronic Nicotine Saves Lives

Electronic Nicotine 34 Comments

Course it won’t stop the nannies from trying hard to look after you for your own good.

Levy and his colleagues report research in the U.S., Canada and England, that shows cigarette smoking rates have fallen more in the last two years than they have in the previous four or five years and that this trend has coincided with the increase in e-cigarette use. “While e-cigarettes may act as a gateway to smoking, much of the evidence indicates that e-cigarette use encourages cessation from cigarettes by those people who would have otherwise smoked with or without e-cigarettes,” Levy says.

Completely impractical

stuff 18 Comments

But very cool, nonetheless.
I’m not sure I could be that pilot though, three days from Hawaii to the Bay Area, allowed only 20 minute catnaps, and then that whole bathroom thing.
I wonder if anyone is working on the X-Plane model. I might pick it up, at least if I get tired of flying my new BD-100!
Bombardier_Cl_300_2.pngPrimary Flight Display (left) and Multi-Function Display (right). En-route to Lewiston, Idaho to ‘pick up the dog handler’. Just about to cross over the border south of Lethbridge. Flying M0.8 at 33,000ft.
Sure, taking a Challenger 300 on a hop to pick-up dogs might seem frivolous to you, but for me, it’s a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning. It’s also a whole lot faster than taking the PA-32 Cherokee.

Foreign meddling in Brexit

What He Said 33 Comments

Now Clinton is jumping in to pump up the Brussels regime.
Meanwhile:


As an aside, does anyone else find it somewhat humorous that the Americans are pushing the UK to be subject to an unrepresentative governing body?

Cruz’s last gasp

2016 51 Comments

Cruz has two two goals.
Stop Trump from getting 1237 before the convention and ensure the delegates for the subsequent votes.
Probably shouldn’t discount Kasich either. It’s not like conventions haven’t a history of third place coming up the middle. (Waves at Alberta)
It will be a fun day of television.

Like the weather.

2016 34 Comments

Wait five minutes, it’ll change.

“Now that he is backtracking substantially on that, and even a 10 year elimination,” Bell said, “I gather that his advisers have brought him a bit more up to speed on the deficit/debt situation.”

At least this position is grounded in reality. (an odd thing for this candidate, so we’ll see if this time it lasts)
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Red Rose Country

Great Moments In Socialism 29 Comments

The march to 2019:

To come:

  • Some populist social program that really irks the right, to which WR/PC’s overreact.
  • Tax reductions.
  • Urban directed programs.
  • Amendments to Bill 6, softening it up considerably.
  • A very public fight with some union, nurses and/or teachers probably.
  • Another very public fight with a big hated corp.
  • Oil price recovery.

The right in Alberta better get their act together or they’re going to lose again. I can lie and say I have high hopes, but given current trends in politics, die hards will dictate direction and the perfect will be the undoing.
At least we’ll still be able to laugh at the commies in Alberta.

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