Y2Kyoto: Greenpeace Did This
Well, @Greenpeace blames the massive oil palm plantation in Indonesia on "western consumerism". This was actually caused by climate policy mandating biodiesel in motor fuel. @Greenpeace & Co. did this. pic.twitter.com/kUKE4FyQEC
— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) July 7, 2019
Y2Kyoto: YOU’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
The global warming issue depends heavily on computer model forecasts about climate problems that greenhouse gas emissions will supposedly cause decades from now. But it turns out that climate experts and government officials have been making these kinds of forecasts for a long time, warning about things that, by now, should already have happened, if their models are as accurate as they claim.
And I think it’s time we checked how good their crystal ball turned out to be. Before we put any trust in their new forecasts, we’re entitled to see how good the old ones were.
h/t Ken (Kulak)
YNoKyoto: (Not) Showing Up To Riot
The president of the Oregon Senate said Tuesday there weren’t enough votes in his majority Democratic caucus to approve a landmark climate bill that has sparked a walkout by Republicans and exacerbated tensions between urban and rural areas.
All 11 Republican senators extended their walkout involving the issue for a sixth day, denying Democrats enough lawmakers to muster a vote on the plan that calls for capping and trading pollution credits among companies.
Hundreds of protesters flooded the capitol steps to protest the GOP walkout then unexpectedly found themselves pushing back against Democratic Senate President Peter Courtney, who disclosed that the climate plan has lost support among members of his own party.
The legislation “does not have the votes on the Senate floor,” he said. “I’ve done as much as I can, and I’ll continue to try.” […]
Conservative senators have fled the state to avoid taking a vote on what would be the nation’s second statewide cap and trade program after California, saying it will kill jobs, raise the cost of fuel and gut small businesses in rural areas.
Senate Minority Leader Herman Baertschiger said in a statement that Republicans still won’t return to the Capitol until they receive further assurances from Democrats that the legislation is dead.
Good for them.
Y2Kyoto: Temperature Tampering
This Is CNN
Because Michael Avanetti taught them nothing: E. Jean Carroll
Jim Treacher: I tried to learn more about her. I Googled her. And I found… this.
CLIMATE EMERGENCY SWEEPSTAKES!
CLIMATE EMERGENCY SWEEPSTAKES! Win a seat on a private jet! https://t.co/qFHjUExAWg
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) June 24, 2019
Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends
An open letter to Lisa Raitt, from Dr. Ross McKitrick.
Coulda Had Max
Rex Murphy: Scheer, just like Justin Trudeau, had to show that he, too, has a plan to meet those sacred Paris commitments
As for Andrew Scheer’s cloud of blather (“Canada, yes us, is going to ‘invent’ the world out of climate doom”), it was another tepid spasm of “I’m the reasonable one here.” Instead of going to Fort McMurray, which is where energy policy should be announced if he wanted to show where his heart is, Scheer was in front of a picture-postcard calm lake under a beautiful blue sky — the kind of PR background you might find in a Greenpeace fundraising ad. It lacked only a swan with blue feathers and someone reciting Wordsworth.
Pleasing his enemies: All of a sudden, Trudeau has conservatives boxed in
h/t Nancy Ross, WTF
Canada is America’s Useful Idiot
Licia Corbella writes:
If you ever doubted whether Canada’s government is acting like a useful idiot for U.S. interests, the passage Friday of Bills C-48 and C-69 in the Senate provided ample proof. Independent researcher Vivian Krause has stacks of documents to prove it.
But first, in Alberta, Premier Jason Kenney went appropriately nuclear over this.
“The passage of these two bills not only undermines Canada’s economy, but also the Canadian federation,” Kenney said. He’ll undoubtedly be criticized for saying this by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other members of the Laurentian elite. But this isn’t so much a threat as a warning.
The Climate Discussion Nexus
A new resource to bookmark: The Climate Discussion Nexus is a group of concerned Canadians who believe more information about climate science and policy debates will lead to better decisions. (h/t Bobzorunkle)
Y2Kyoto: The Planet Has A Fever
Katie Telford’s op-eds
No business case for Trans Mountain expansion, says former environment minister.
Personally, I think it will be approved, even Trudeau isn’t that dumb. Yesterday I got a fundraising call from the SaskParty. I asked the poor part-timer on the phone for a Referendum on Independence in exchange for a donation.
H/t Watcher
Well, that’s refreshing.
"Bottom line is there’s no solid connection between climate change and the major indicators of extreme weather, despite Trudeau’s claims to the contrary. The continual claim of such a link is misinformation employed for political and rhetorical purposes." https://t.co/egJuIYiGYI
— Lisa Raitt (@lraitt) June 8, 2019
Climate Barbie
Imagine having a staff of 24 people working on her Twitter communications, and not one of them saying, um, boss, it’s a bit off.
More here… in the replies.
h/t WTF
Y2Kyoto: The Planet Has A Fever
Experts predicted an ice-free Arizona, and it may happen later this summer pic.twitter.com/EG7pq7FB8M
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) May 31, 2019
Cowed Town
Did you know Calgary has its very own Eco Mentor? We pay them $76,094/year. No idea what they do but it sounds like a sweet gig if you can get it. Oh and when you get your property tax this week and it’s much more than last year, sleep well knowing we have an “Eco Mentor”
There’s also a Cycling coordinator, Walking coordinator, and Liveable Streets Manager on the payroll.
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Y2Kyoto: Strong Planet
We now know 50 years later that every single prediction concerning the environmental demise of the Earth and the people made in the original Earth Day Report was wrong. We also know that every additional claim, such as overpopulation, global warming, sea level rise, desertification, deforestation, and sea ice collapse, among many others, were wrong.
But that doesn’t matter. Not at all.
It’s Climate Barbie
And she’s drunk.




