Y2Kyoto: Laws Are For The Little People

According to a new report from Transport & Environment (T&E) titled “Climate Impacts of Exemptions to EU’s Shipping Proposals: Arbitrary exemptions undermine integrity of shipping laws”, more than half of Europe’s ships would be exempt from the European Commission’s carbon pricing plan for the sector. Among them: highly polluting if extremely desirable – for the Monte Carlo set yachts.

More from Terry Etam: Private jet/yacht emissions are totally fine, the rest of you can go cuddle your cats to stay warm

h/t Adrian

Get the Booster, Get the Covid, Get the Myocarditis…

I believe that’s a covid “Bingo”.

Tech Haz The Sadz

I work in Big Tech. A name you would know and have probably used before. Wanted to give a rundown of what it’s like from the inside right now.

Obviously insanely radically leftwing. BLM/LGBTQ. Trans flags hanging in office. Pronouns stated before meetings. Special affiliation groups for everyone but white men. All what you’d expect.

But COVID/WFH has totally broken people. They are fundamentally weak, often with no social support outside of work. They’re the people with no children, no spouse. Only a dog or cat for emotional support.

There’s constant talk, even now, about how hard things are for everyone. Often meetings start with going around the room to ask “How is everyone feeling?” Literally everyone else went on sad rants about their lives. “I’m so MAD a white supremacist shot 3 black men in Kenosha!”

It’s toxic. When it got to me, I said “Good.” and then a (((lady engineer))) literally proposed that we should not be allowed to answer the question positively. I shit you not. I think it hurt her that I wasn’t as miserable as her.

“Good.”

Do read on. There’s a big red warning siren for tech investors in there.

Something Wicked This Way Comes – Alberta Edition

Do you remember in the recent past how Kate reported on something strange happening with the Covid data in Saskatchewan? Now something odd seems to be happening with the official data in Alberta:

The Canadian province of Alberta has censored data showing a huge increase in Covid infections and deaths in people following their first Covid vaccine dose.

The charts are available here, Figure 12, on this Web page:

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm#vaccine-outcomes

Did I say “are”?

I meant were.

They’re gone. They’ve been removed. From an official government Website. Without notice. Not even a note claiming they’re being updated, or double-checked, or anything. They’re just gone. The page now ends at Figure 11. Nothing below.

Fortunately, the Wayback Machine (thank you, Wayback Machine!) still has them, so nobody can claim I made them up, or something..

A Detailed Examination of Fossil Fuel Divestment

SDA regular William McNally has written an excellent piece on the worldwide campaign to force us away from fossil fuels, without much, if any, consideration for what will immediately replace it:

An ethical problem with university divestment campaigns is that proponents attempt to use the university’s resources to advance their personal political causes. I have no quarrel with individuals who manage their own investment portfolios as they see fit, including in ways that reflect their political or philosophical beliefs rather than strictly their financial goals. But attempting to manipulate pension investments to advance personal politics is outrageously selfish, because it can only undermine the purpose of the investment – which is to provide for the financial security of thousands of other people, many or most of whom don’t have the same beliefs.

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