The warming of the past half dozen decades is nothing … absolutely nothing when compared to the massive shifts that have occured during the past 25,000 years:
But what about the magnitude and rates of climates change? How do past temperature oscillations compare with recent global warming (1977-1998) or with warming periods over the past millennia. The answer to the question of magnitude and rates of climate change can be found in the δ18O and borehole temperature data.
At least 35 people are feared dead and many more injured.
h/t ‘TheRedSuit’
Report from DEBKAfile
Realtime Updates Here
Update #1:
Pamela Geller has much more (graphic images warning). h/t Marc in Calgary
Update #2:
Here’s the top rated comment on this tragedy at CBC News:
This is what passes for intelligent thought amongst some Canadians. 🙁
A state appeals court ruled Monday that Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff, cannot run for mayor of Chicago in February because he was not a resident of the city for a full year before the election.
From Douglas Coupland’s Twitter page a few days ago:
h/t Amy Alkon
SDA commentor Abe Froman put it best the other day, when he wrote that:
“Politicians are like Hobbits, you give them the ring and they turn into Gollum.”
The temptation to turn the spigot that feeds the trough is overwhelming … just a little turn open here, a little twist to the left there. Or, as we used to teach the kids when they wanted to operate the garden hose … righty tighty; lefty loosy … these days it seems that lefty loosy wins more often than not.
So it is with the Harper Tories … the ring beckons, corrupts, and teases. It gets hard to keep track of the twists of the spigot … is it three twists left, two twist right … or visa versa?
The government’s eagerness to participate is embarrassing in its transparency. Until Quebecor came along, the city was hoping to finance the $400 million arena entirely on taxpayer cash. Fifty million from the city, $175 million from the province, the rest (they hoped) from Ottawa. Because if you take $400 million and divide it up among three governments, it’s not like all the money is coming from the same taxpayers, you see. It’s different taxpayers being fleeced, federal taxpayers plus provincial taxpayers plus municipal taxpayers. They might not even know one another.
From Jason Riley’s article in the WSJ about his interview with economist Walter Williams:
“Racial discrimination is not the problem of black people that it used to be” in his youth, says Mr. Williams. “Today I doubt you could find any significant problem that blacks face that is caused by racial discrimination. The 70% illegitimacy rate is a devastating problem, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with racism. The fact that in some areas black people are huddled in their homes at night, sometimes serving meals on the floor so they don’t get hit by a stray bullet—that’s not because the Klan is riding through the neighborhood.”
Williams is cautiously optimistic in his belief that stereotypical racial/political alignments are gradually shifting:
“You find more and more black people—not enough in my opinion but more and more—questioning the status quo,” he says. “When I fill in for Rush, I get emails from blacks who say they agree with what I’m saying. And there are a lot of white people questioning ideas on race, too. There’s less white guilt out there. It’s progress.”
The whole thing here.
In 1851 Great Britain held The Great Exhibition in the massive, custom-built Crystal Palace in London’s Hyde Park to showcase its own achievements and those of its colonies. One hundred years later, the Brits celebrated their post- WWII resurgence by holding what was called the Festival of Britain. Here’s a short documentary film (in colour) made at the time to commemorate the event.
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It just keeps growing
The EPA has followed up its ruling allowing E15 ethanol blends (15% ethanol, 85% gasoline) to be pumped to vehicles built for the 2007 model-year and later, now allowing the corn juice-enhanced gasoline to be distributed to any vehicle built after 2001.
Let’s hope we escape this nonsense in Canada.
A new “study” by the “Centre for Addictions Research of B.C.” at the University of Victoria claims that private liquor stores are directly responsible for increased deaths associated with alcohol. Here’s the official press release on the “study” and here’s the actual document (h/t & thanks to langmann).
The lead “researcher” on the “study”, Tim Stockwell, was interviewed on CKNW this afternoon. You can listen to the interview here, beginning at 6:00.
I was most curious why he kept on interjecting “private” before “liquor stores” so I sent him this e-mail:
On your recent appearance on CKNW, you appeared to state unequivocally that the increase in deaths due to alcohol was directly related to the fact that the increase in liquor stores in the province were private, as opposed to public.
I am most curious to find out how you proved that the same number of deaths wouldn’t have occurred if all of the private liquor stores had instead been public ones. Could you direct me to the section in your study that proves this?
No response as of yet but I will post it if & when he writes back.
Incidentally, a month ago Mr. Stockwell was advocating for higher booze prices for the general public but free alcohol for homeless drunks.
Update: . . .
If you followed the Australian federal election last year then you’re aware that the Greens elected one person to the House of Representatives (though admittedly have a significant percentage of the popular vote). But because of the makeup of the current Parliament, they hold much more power than their numbers would suggest.
In a new damning article, Miranda Devine explains how the policies pushed by the Greens are very much at the heart of the recent flooding.
Here’s some recent video. Incidentally, one lie being pushed by the Leftist media in Australia is that these floods are unprecedented. Historical facts tell a very different story.
h/t Australian Climate Madness
Yesterday the Harper Conservatives announced their intention to introduce legislation – which the NDP will apparently support – that would give victims of crime a greater right to make citizen’s arrests.
Lorne Gunter provides the QOTD:
The right to self-defence conflicts with the belief modern lovers of big government have that only the military and police should be allowed to use force, so self-defence has to be treated as a crime. In truth, it is an individual right that existed before government and, so, cannot be extinguished by government.
The American Creed’s values are liberal, as that term was understood until liberalism succumbed to 20th-century statism. The values, expressing the 18th century’s preoccupation with defending liberty against government, are, Huntington said, “individualistic, democratic, egalitarian, and hence basically anti-government and anti-authority.” The various values “unite in imposing limits on power and on the institutions of government. The essence of constitutionalism is the restraint of governmental power through fundamental law.”
From a 1927 recording, here’s the great Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven stomping and swinging their way through a jaunty Potato Head Blues.
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Just when you thought the messages coming out of the non-trans fat pie holes mouths of Lefties couldn’t get any more ridiculous, comes this story from Reuters.
“A U.S. conversation group has sued the federal government over its approval of a major solar power plant in the California desert, the latest in a string of challenges to the nation’s renewable energy goals from the environmental community.”
I Hate The Media shares their thoughts.
If what he wrote on his blog is any indication, his sense of humour is still intact:
As many of you know, in early December I went into a coma and was being treated for a number of related issues at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario . . . There was no brain damage. In other words, I’m still a conservative.
Recall the mocking tones of the warmists as they claimed again and again that “deniers” had little “peer reviewed” research to back their claims or doubts. You would be excused if you thought that peer review was some kind of gold standard that every single warmist clung to … you’d be forgiven, but still misled:
In the words of those quoted above, the use of grey literature is essential, necessary, and unavoidable in the preparation of IPCC reports. According to these people, the IPCC has relied on grey literature extensively for some time.
So confident of their peerless review are some, that they’ve issued an edict … vote GOP and die.
I wonder what Queen Elizabeth’s father would think of this?
Beyond the fact that he’d of course be deemed a racist for daring to even raise the issue!
In an interview with Walter Williams, he describes what must change in order for Black Americans to move forward. Here’s a snippet:
During Reconstruction and up until the 1940s, 75% to 85% of black children lived in two-parent families. Today, more than 70% of black children are born to single women. “The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do, what Jim Crow couldn’t do, what the harshest racism couldn’t do,” Mr. Williams says. “And that is to destroy the black family.”
