Germany’s plan to transform its energy system to one reliant on renewable power as it phases out nuclear energy could cost up to €1 trillion, German energy and environment minister Peter Altmaier has publicly admitted. Feed-in tariffs supporting renewable energy could account for over two-thirds of the cost.
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
There’s no whore like a CBC whore…
The Sound Of Settled Science
Don’t look now, but maybe a scientific consensus exists concerning global warming after all. Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies. By contrast, a strong majority of the 1,077 respondents believe that nature is the primary cause of recent global warming and/or that future global warming will not be a very serious problem.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
In December 2005, the chief and council of Chemawawin First Nation had drained almost all of the $400,000 Chemawawin Resource Trust Fund to support representatives on the Cedar Lake Resource Management Board, Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) prairie director Colin Craig revealed Wednesday.
Band members sent a letter to Craig last month to inform him of the situation.
“Manitoba Hydro was very clear in the trust fund agreement — the trustees were forbidden from spending the $400,000 initial capital investment,” Craig wrote in a blog post addressed to Manitoba Hydro CEO Scott Thomson.
“The band was only to use interest from the fund.”
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
National Post, February 2013 – OCAP threatens to take over Metro Hall if city does not address shelter bed ‘crisis’
Sun News, December 2012 – The Menzoid took to the streets of Toronto to give a some free meals to the homeless, but found they were much pickier than expected.
h/t Dan T
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is one big yawnfest.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
A French Industry Minister With A Five Word Solution.
A Problem With A Five Word Solution
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Scratch a Leftist
Wait, don’t the the Joos already own the media?
The Sound Of Settled Science
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.,Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado;
Five days ago I critiqued a shoddy paper by Brysse et al. 2013 which appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change. Today I received notice from the editor-in chief and executive editor that I have been asked to “step down from the journal.” They say that it is to “give other scientists the chance to gain experience of editorial duties.”
Over the past 20 years I have served on the editorial boards of about a dozen or so academic journals. I have rolled off some when my term was up, and continued for many years with others. I have never received a mid-term request to step down from any journal. My 6 years with the GEC editorial board is not long in academia, and certainly much shorter than many other serving members.
Are my critique and the request to step down related? I can’t say. It is interesting timing to be sure.
Is That A Monument In Your Pocket?
Another good reason for women to arm themselves;
A tiny Vancouver park is at the centre of a monument war, pitting backers of a proposed monument to Irish Canadians against activists who feel its dominant “phallic” nature would violate the integrity of an existing Montreal Massacre memorial. […]
“Placing the [Ireland Canada Monument] design 80 feet from the women’s monument, which has vulva shapes engraved in the top of each of the 14 sarcophagi forms, is inappropriate and will be seen to be a violation by supporters,” wrote Chris McDowell, an activist and second-generation Irish Canadian who led a seven-year campaign to build the Marker of Change.
So you don’t end up as a “vulva shape” in a Vancouver park.
Free Saskatoon!
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission will investigate a complaint against the City of Saskatoon and a city councillor.
Saskatoon resident Ashu Solo launched the complaint last year over a prayer offered by Coun. Randy Donauer during a volunteer appreciation banquet held in April 2012.
At the time, Solo said he was “extremely offended by the inclusion of a Christian prayer, which makes non-Christians feel like second-class citizens.”
In a letter, the commission says they have determined there is sufficient evidence to suggest the code may have been violated.
Last December, Solo lodged a complaint with the city over “Merry Christmas” greetings that appeared on the message board of city buses.
When the nannystate monsters turn on the governing class, nothing but good can come of it.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Scientists analysing ancient ice samples say that the Greenland ice sheet withstood temperatures much higher than today’s for many thousands of years during a period of global warming more than 120,000 years ago, losing just a quarter of its mass. It had been widely suggested – by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for instance – that any such warming would melt the entire sheet, leading to massive sea-level rises.
The new research was carried out by analysing a 2.5km long ice core drilled from the Greenland ice last year by a major scientific expedition involving top boffins from around the world. The core data showed that 115 to 130 thousand years ago, temperatures above the Greenland ice were much higher than they are today: 8±4°C, in fact.
The local radio station that regurgitates as “news” every baseless Seth Borenstein fueled prediction on climate change never manages to see this stuff. Or maybe they do. Who knows anymore?
h/t TimR
Reader Tips
In tonight’s soundtrack to the typing out of your Reader Tips, German keyboard whiz Klaus Wunderlich plays Flying Red Horse Polka.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Keeping Vancouver’s Poverty Industry Alive
A new restaurant has opened in Vancouver’s infamous Downtown Eastside (DTES) area. And lo and behold, there’s an ongoing protest against it:
A just-opened upscale restaurant in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has become a lightning rod for anti-gentrification protesters.
Pidgin co-owner Brandon Grossutti said protesters have told him their goal is to get his restaurant — viewed as a symbol of encroaching gentrification in the neighbourhood — to shut down.
“I’m not going anywhere,” said Grossutti. “I’ve sunk my heart and soul into this project. Closing my restaurant is not a solution to anything. It would just put a bunch of people out of work.
Protesters have been picketing almost daily outside Pidgin, which opened Feb. 1 at 350 Carrall St., across the street from the notorious drug-riddled Pigeon Park.
Grossutti said protesters have vandalized his restaurant, harassed and yelled at customers, taken their photos, and shone flashlights into the eyes of patrons dining inside.
“It’s been really aggressive,” he said. “It’s bordering on adolescent behaviour.”
Millions upon millions of public dollars are paid into the DTES’s ‘Poverty Industry’ each month, paying the salaries of thousands of people. It’s simply not in their interest for improvements to ever come to the DTES. For anyone who thinks that this “protest” is an authentic grassroots affair, a single sentence later in the article reveals the truth:
The protest is being organized by the Carnegie Community Action Project.
A quick check of the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) reveals more. One of the key people there is Jean Swanson. I knew her when I was a kid in the early 1970’s. She’s been a “community organizer” all of her life. She has been gainfully employed for a long time as such. In the minds of her and her fellow ‘activists’, they are enlightened and righteous. Much like devout religionists members of a religious cult, they can do no wrong, for their truth is absolute. That even extends to doing everything they can to destroy the fortunes of an entrepreneur, who has invested his time, energy, & money to build a business, employ people, and improve the area.
Thought experiment: Imagine there was a fellow restauranteur named Gene Swanson (fictitious name), who owned an establishment a few blocks away in Gastown. Further imagine that he hired a bunch of thugs to protest Brandon Grossutti’s new restaurant, scaring away potential customers. How are the CCAP’s actions any different?
I hope Grossutti sues them. I’m confident that most Vancouverites would applaud him.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why my basement windows are booby-trapped.
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More Pavilions At Folkfest
Another good reason to wear a burqa to the bank: Muslim groups are calling for a separate student loan system because the interest due to be charged will conflict with rules of Sharia law.
The Tolerant Left
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h/t Manny