Losing Your Cool

Climate Cult nannystate 27 Comments

In an effort to combat rising temperatures, the Environmental Protection Agency is going to raise the cost of beating the heat. I guess it’ll all balance out in about 150 years, right?

“They’re stopping the production of the current refrigerant, R-410A. Those systems will no longer be produced after December 31 of this year…”

The Environmental Protection agency wants to replace the refrigerants with more eco-friendly alternatives.

“They’re trying to get to the lowest global warming potential number that they can. Unfortunately, it’s going to drive costs significantly up, and it’s going to impact homeowners,” Howard said.

I Don’t Want To Do My Job

Arrivescam Canada’s Bolsheviks 7 Comments

Blacklocks- Weary Of ArriveCan Scrutiny

The lone New Democrat on the Commons public accounts committee complains MPs are having too many meetings investigating the $59.5 million ArriveCan program. “I am getting more concerned about the cost to taxpayers that these surprise meetings are having,” said MP Blake Desjarlais (Edmonton Griesbach).

The Commons public accounts committee is mandated to scrutinize federal waste. The committee last year spent a total $13,541 on 44 meetings according to a Committee Activities And Expenditures report.

The committee last year met a total 83 hours, heard testimony from 237 witnesses and published 17 reports. Costs do not include salary for MPs, clerks, translators and technicians who are paid regardless of whether the committee meets.

Crescent Point no more, and more on Rex

Drill, Baby, Drill Ethical Energy 4 Comments

Crescent Point Energy, which was briefly Saskatchewan’s largest oil producer and a corporate darling, is continuing its shift to Alberta focus. Last week saw the sale of one of its last major remaining properties in Saskatchewan, and on Friday, it changed its name.

Oh, and it lost a pile of money in that sale, it seems. If they were going to lose so much money, why the rush to sell it?

And hockey had Gretzky, while columnists like myself had Rex Murphy. He wasn’t afraid to be an ardent supporter of oil and gas, in large part because it proved to be the salvation of Newfoundland when the cod fishery collapse.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Mirrors

Alternative Subsidy 10 Comments

“Upon investigation, crews found a working fire in the solar panels on the roof of the sporting facility.”

Thousands of swimmers have been evacuated after the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre became engulfed in flames on Monday afternoon.

Fire Rescue New South Wales said crews rushed to the sporting precinct after they received multiple calls about a fire at the swimming venue.

“FRNSW crews are responding to reports of a building fire after multiple calls have been received by ‘000’ with black smoke issuing from the roof of a building on Olympic Boulevard,” Fire Rescue NSW said.

h/t CanuckJack

If Women Ran The World

entitlement generation If Women Ran The World 29 Comments

We’d still live in caves but with really fancy, torn curtains.

As part of the retreat, Banducci held a rage ritual: a ceremony in which participants scream and beat large sticks on the ground in the woods. Participants are encouraged to think of people and experiences that have wronged them and to scream and swing the sticks for at least 20 minutes, or until they can no longer move their arms.

Rage rituals have garnered attention on TikTok, where they’ve resonated, particularly with women.

Everyone-gets-a-trophy didn’t turn out the way they planned.

A Shirtless Man With Long Hair Is Not, In Fact, A Woman

Forward! Media 11 Comments

When a mother and her baby are assaulted, and the media and police are not entirely frank:

Happily, passers-by assisted the alarmed mother, and Mr Beekmeyer, who was shirtless at the time, was overpowered and arrested shortly afterwards, before being charged with assault. Unlike the police and several news outlets, including the Vancouver Sun and the CBC, witnesses to the crime were quite comfortable using the words he and man when referring to Mr Beekmeyer.

Then, it has to be said, things get a little strange.

They Banned Our Incandescent Bulbs For This

AI The Deplorables 18 Comments

JPMorgan Chase, a bank, calculates that Alphabet, Amazon’s cloud arm (aws), Meta and Microsoft consumed 90 terawatt-hours (twh) of electricity in 2022, as much as Colombia. And that was mostly before Chatgpt touched off the ai revolution in November that year. The ensuing hoopla led the International Energy Agency (iea), an official forecaster, to predict that data centres (including those dedicated to ai and equally energy-hungry cryptocurrencies) will eat up more than 800twh globally in 2026, double the amount in 2022…

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