But first, this message from the poll sponsors;
A large group of Canadian climate scientists, environment advocates, business owners and corporate executives want climate change to be the No. 1 issue for voters this fall, including problems and solutions beyond the federal carbon tax.
A hundred of them signed an open letter to Canadians this week, urging them to understand the impacts of climate change and the solutions each party offers before casting their ballots in October.
Those behind the letter fear important discussions about climate change are being lost in the sea of political rhetoric for or against a national carbon price.
“It’s a national emergency,” said Gavin Pitchford, the CEO of recruiting firm Delta Management and executive director of Clean50.
h/t BC
I’m disappointed that 14% polled believe climate change is our most important issue. The propaganda factories we call schools are doing their job well. First thing any conservative government should do is adopt a voucher system for education and break the power of the teacher’s/propagandists union.
And it’s time to bring education into the 21st century though the magic of IT and computers and all the wizardry of the tech industry, which means most teaching positions would be redundant.
“…. conservative government should do is adopt a voucher system for education ….”
Yes, this should be number one, numero uno, nummer eons, of the conservative government. The government of “socialist” Sweden have figured that years ago.
With the fat cheeks in charge though, this would seem out of the question for now.
As one commenter is wont to say “wait until Andy hears about it”.
Highly unlikely,
Education is a provincial issue, not a Federal one. “Andy” would be just as out of line as our current Dear Leader if he tinkered with “voucher systems”.
(I’m assuming “don morris” is thinking in provincial terms here.)
Ok
I disagree, Don. 30 years of relentless propaganda and 14% is the best they can do. It should be noted that when polled AGW rates dead last just among environment issues. So, enormous resources, the full weight of MSM propaganda machines and 14% is the best they can do after a generation has passed.
cgh, yes, you’re right, I suppose we should take the optimistic approach, only 14% after almost fifty years of climate bs is a good sign.
On some occasions, optimism is warranted. This I think is one of them. It shows that despite the relentless bombardment from ALL the MSM, most people are still not persuaded after a generation of this BS. The mirage is disrupted from time to time by salutary lessons such as Ontario’s hideous experiment in wind and solar that have shattered the province’s industrial economy. And in the crippling of Britain’s industrial economy. And the havoc created in Spain by solar generators being paid for generating at night (by electric arc light). These kinds of episodes cumulatively over time start to smash the AGW mythology and show it all as just another grubby scheme of crooks looking for cheap handouts from government. Why for example should Canada’s richest man qualify for an $13 million grant from the feds, when his company Loblaws dragged down $882 million in profit last year?
Green thus becomes just another form of courtier politics or getting by only because government grants you favours. And it’s now clear that AGW is just the biggest and most stacked deck on the table. I will only get alarmed after the MSM goes into full post-Stalingrad suppression mode.
Now down below 12%, Economy, Corruption, and Taxes each have 2 to 3 times the support, and I would suggest that those 3 topics are all linked, as the economy is greatly impacted by taxes and corruption. Those 3 issues are 85% of the votes.
7215 votes, on a story about an open letter signed by 100 “important” people, and they could only muster 850ish votes to support their central premise? How many devices do each of these 100 “important” people have that they can vote from. What organizations do they belong to? I am certain that they mustered all the support they can amongst their peers and family. I only hear about climate change from the professional catastrapharians and virtue signalling twats who inevitably leave the lights on when they exit a room.
Outstanding contributors to clean capitalism
2019
https://clean50.com/2019-clean-50/clean-50/
Earth Day, April 22, 2019
AN OPEN LETTER to OUR FELLOW CANADIANS
We, past and present Canada’s Clean50 Award winners, represent a wide cross section of Canadians from business, science, government and academia.
We are very concerned that some Canadians and politicians alike have failed to recognize both the tremendous economic opportunity in decisively addressing the increasingly urgent climate crisis, and the looming threat to our shared future, should we continue to ignore it.
We are asking all Canadians to make climate their very top priority in upcoming elections.
https://clean50.com/2019openletter/
These are the people cashing in on Climate Change many governmental and educational personnel.
Over the past week London has been brought to a standstill by mainly white, middle class climate change “activists,” calling themselves the Extinction Rebellion.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JmDgJbVX7xc
Poll is over
Previous Poll Results
What do you see as top issue in this fall’s federal election?
Total Votes: 7302
Climate: 11.71%
Economy: 33.85%
Corruption: 32.29%
Taxes: 18.94%
Other: 3.2%
As usual, just wrong.
How did the schools get to be propaganda factories? GOVERNMENT.
Who could fix the problem created by government? GOVERNMENT OF COURSE! Or maybe the government party (NDP) is best equipped to fix government problems? Maybe the unions that have director positions on the government party board will get it fixed?
Your circular firing squad is amusing.
I love it when they show “smokestacks” belching steam at 30 below. That H2O in the environment is such a bitch.
They always do show steam because CO2 is invisible. However they seem to overlook the fact that water vapour is in fact the principal greenhouse gas responsible for around 95% of the greenhouse effect (depends where you get the figures, but it is in that ballpark). So in a sense they are correct in showing steam, however that of course is not their intent.
CO2 is less than 5% of the greenhouse effect, and manmade CO2 is less than 5% of that, meaning manmade CO2 is responsible for less than 0.25% of the greenhouse effect. Turning that around: over 99.75% of the greenhouse effect is totally beyond our control.
With left-wing provincial governments falling all across the country, you’d think the alarmists might notice that we are ignoring them. Maybe that’s why they are ramping up the rhetoric, like a spoiled child screaming for attention.
CO2 is at 400 ppm currently, so I read. Tell me, what is the optimum level of CO2? Maybe that’s what needs to be “polled”? Have any of the sales persons at Environment Canada offered a number to back up their strident warnings to the populace? The UN? EU? The Chinese or Indians?
The results might alarm you, if you actually know anything on the subject.
I can assure you, as can other scientists more knowledgeable than I, a measly Geologist for that matter, that the “scientists” who seem to have the ear of .gov these days don’t know what they are talking about on the subject as they are more “political scientists” even if they have a “scientific” qualification attached to their names.
Show us the math and process getting Canada’s meteoritic rise in temperature vs anywhere else on this continent, or the rest of the world for that matter. Let’s see the names and the math Environment Canada. Show us the time frame of how you cooked your numbers, too. Was it post 1930’s, or did it span a few centuries or more?
For the uniformed get informed: http://www.jpattitude.com/IceCore/graph1.htm
We’re about 11,000 years into an inter-glacial warming period that’s becoming a bit long in the tooth, between glacial periods. The Sun (which keeps us warm, not CO2), is in one of it’s funks exacerbated by what our Planet’s tilt away from it is.
Are we entering a new Ice Age? Ask Environment Canada. They’ll tell you what you need to know, while Ford, Jeep, Audi et al advertise new cars on TV and we still see jet setter ads for sunnier climes, far south of us.
That darn dihydrogen monoxide, ruining everything.
That nasty dihydrogen monoxide causes all kinds of corrosion and kills lots of people.
Let’s ask Americans if we should ban dihydrogen monoxide. Starting with Ocasio. 🙂
In Canada I wish a reporter would ask Justin the same question.
So tired hearing from these Chicken Little nut jobs. As has been detailed by SDA and commenters so very often, the data these “scientologists” have been using is suspect and more than a little fluid. This “crisis” has been created out of whole cloth. Even if the panic artists were correct, there is nothing that can be done about it. Not for any amount of money, not in three or four years, or 12 years or fifty years. The climate will change and mankind (peoplekind) better learn to adapt as we always have.
Gore and Suzuki and their ilk should be considered criminals for engaging in this scam.
“the data these ‘scientologists’ have been using”
I believe the correct term (according to The Simpsons) would be “scienticians”.
Scienticians working at the Laboratoire Garnier ?
Hey, capitalist national socialist in close association with government know how to make a buck.
There arw millions and millions of dollars in it for them once the government of Canada decides to give them other peoples money.
They are not doing it for any other purpose whatsoever.
Strictly a business scam.
Just like Government is a scam…
Exactly. Scratching each other’s backs as long as the capitalist businesses do as they are told by their government handlers. Krupp, Siemens, Mercedes, and I.G. Farben, et al, know how this works.
Ken
That poll was open to a lot of back scratching I’d say but the word didn’t get out –
Out of interest (and pure research of course) I tried it. And it let me vote from Australia.
Naturally I went with the flow gleaned from SDA.
Didn’t think to try and see if I could “vote early and often”
Wow, CBC doing a splendid job again, quoting nonsense from an American communist about killing our society to save the planet.
The Left’s solution to climate change: stop making babies, replace them with millions of immigrants instead.
CBC-The Current
@TheCurrentCBC
As
@AOC
points out, many people are wondering if it’s OK to have kids with climate change looming. What do you think? We’ll hear from people on all sides of the debate later this morning.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1121074446771589122
1. CO2 is not “pollution.”
2. Increasing gas prices by four cents will have zero effect on climate.
3. You can’t “make life more affordable” by taking money and giving back a portion of it.
4. You’re a liar and a fraud.
Catherine McKenna
@cathmckenna
As of today, it’s no longer free to pollute anywhere in Canada. Canadians understand that climate change is real and they want us to act. That’s why we’re putting a price on pollution and working with Canadians to make life more affordable.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1112677625619759105
Let’s not feed plants. Sounds like something a lawyer would dream up.
They could have saved a line.
Climate and Corruption are synonymous in this context.
14% of Canadians are concerned about the climate?
Definitely future residents of Florida.
Corruption in government, media and Supreme Court…
Climate change is getting less than 14% of the vote which tells me Canadians already know it’s a scam.
Just voted, click “Opinion” on the row of tabs, then Poll.
I chose “Corruption” for my vote.
5273 votes
13.74% climate
32.375 economy
29.755 corruption
20.485 taxes
3.675 other
The greens can’t be faulted for not recycling themselves. “Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, says……” was a name attached to the Sierra Club campaigning against the BC forest industry 20 years ago. One needs to be versatile to be a professional hysteria pimp.
I wonder what the correlation is between the 14 per centers and regular viewers of the CBC. Given that virtually all politicians on the left have stated that controlling all aspects of your lives…. oops, I mean keeping our international commitments and show leadership in preventing future temperature increases by pretending to be able to control climate, oops, I mean preventing catastrophic climate change is job number one, they have a lot of hysteria to pimp to get that 14% increased.
As usual the site fails to show the letter and its signatories. The Guardian tried that once and within minutes the credentials of the signatories had been ripped to shreds, exposed as the usual collection of activists and pseudo-scientists trying to wrap themselves in the flag of “science”.
Exactly It could have been a collection of the local Whistler pub drunks that signed that after a few pints.
Economy, corruption, and taxes oh my!
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Economy, corruption, and taxes oh my!
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“Science clearly tells us that is not true, that in fact temperatures should actually have been decreasing each century over the past 6,000 years,” the letter-writers say. “Instead, temperatures have risen steadily, and the five hottest years ever recorded have been the last five years.
Curiosity got the best of me so I gathered temperature records for 2018, 2002 and 1991 for my Northern Ontario neck of the woods. Thank-you Environment Canada for an easy to use website, however; results. 2018 average temperature 4.86 C, 2002 average temperature 5.28 C and 1991 5.18 C. If I remember my high school statistics lesson my degree of accuracy can only be attributed to the least accurate of my data. All info provided by Environment Canada was to the degree Celsius. Therefore 2018 average temperature 5 C, 2002 average temperature 5 C and 1991 5 C. Flat as a pancake as they say. So much for 2018 being one of the five hottest years.
Vern – you are missing the point. All the increased temperatures are extrapolated readings in the Arctic and at sea where an accurate historical record does not exist.
I’m a Sagittarius.
My horoscope says that global warming concerns are real and that we need a carbon tax. /s.
The 14% are mostly “educated women” and or totalitarians.
They don’t care if SUV’s are forced off the road, gas lawn mowers are shutdown, people are forced onto mass transit and quads and snowmobiles and ski boats are put away, BUT tell them shipping fresh produce up north in winter is now illegal and they’ll go screaming into the cold dark night.
These 100 assholes and their climageddon propagandists will never stop pushing their control agenda.
Didn’t I say is a mistake to educate women? But…nobody listen to me!
I sense your sarc.
I use and reuse ‘educated women’ because they overwhelmingly 1. favour people like Justa Turnip 2. sell their liberty for security. 3. hate ‘deplorable’ men 4. wear pussy hats to protest how terrible their lives are 5. aren’t smart just because they got some skoolin.
Your betters, the ones with your money, know what’s important. You’re free to think what they say, or say what they think.
But those are the limits of free speech. So what if some innocent people get shut up. They’re probably extremists anyway.
Is that not what the gulags are for? Let the tribunals deal with them!
Why would anyone listen to racists, er extremists anyway? Unless you’re one of …. them?
Breaking news: humans prefer prosperity over sustainability. Other revelations: the sky is blue and water is wet.
Humans prefer truth over BS. Other revelations, climate change is socialism and progressives are Marxists in sheep’s clothing.
Lol no we don’t. Proof: religion.
LOL right back at you. You prove your ignorance with patent nonsense, then claim intellectual superiority. Pathetic.
Uh I said ‘we’ though? Nice strawman argument. I state a simple fact about human nature and your counterargument is a random personal attack that has nothing whatsoever to do with my comment. Unbelievable. If you clearly don’t have anything useful to say, why even bother responding?
Yes, yes belief in anthropogenic global warming has all the trappings of a dangerous cult. Thank you for agreeing with us.
yo, mr sham rock:
ooooh no no no no. humahns lie about everything. politishuns lie and get voted into office. then lie some more and lie about lying.
aaaaand speaking of religion, where is it ‘thou shalt not lie’? ring a bell?
seems the Good Lord limited His rules to a mere 10 and THAT’s one of them. what’s that tell ya?
lies come in a virtual infinite supply. limited only by the size of the audience and time constraints.
satan the origin of all lies.
lies lies lies lies lies lies lies lies and more lies.
google josef goebbels to see how well it works.
ever heard this one; ‘people believe what they WANT to believe’ so give them a lie they want to hear eh?
why do phishing scams work and why are they so common? hint: they’re based on LIES.
here’s another one: ‘caveat emptor’. buyer beware. why would that be? I leave it to you to figure out.
and p.s., do try NOT to make the posting *personal* when there’s no need eh?
No. Your liberal condescension is warping your perspective. What they prefer is an effective combination of sustainability and prosperity, and they’ve learned to ignore the madness of the climate movement.
Hey, at this point we’ve got less than twelve years! Time sure flies when you’re having fun.
Sustainability is code for destroying our current standard of living and going back to living in caves and eating berries and grass.
Andrew you are assuming prosperity and sustainability are mutually exclusive. They are not.
We have greater prosperity now than ever before AND the environment is in better shape.
?
you counting the number of species that have vanished or about to?
howcum the river where I grew up was chock FULL of crayfish, minnows, water spiders, plants, wtf ever, now . . . . . .
very clear but sterile of life except the e-coli bacteria.
you counting the asian long horned beetle and its cousins that WILL devastate the forests more every year?
sea mammals washing up with their guts FULL of fcukin plastic?
the missing cod fishery? jeezuz murphy, how did dat ‘appen???
the ‘prosperity’ you refer to is being paid by DEBT. the world economy is a ginormous ponzi scheme. ergo, prosperity is
illusional in the long term with current conditions.
but I agree re prosperity vs sustainability. there is an optimum balance in any set of conditions.
we’ve just not gotten there yet.
Note those names and shun them as you would a leper (or maybe even more so) and any who employ them.
Everything that happens on Earth happens in cycles. The only straight line is in man’s mind. There are no straight lines in nature. Everything is nature is formed by spinning spheres, or waves.
Spinning spheres emit waves. We know this happens with the planets; they emit electromagnetic wave. Waves are everywhere in the Earth’s atmophere (and in outer space) and waves create cycles. Cycles affect just about every aspects of our lives on Earth.
There are lots of different cycles of different lengths. However, the major cycles tend to be somewhat harmonic (they’re divisible by three, to find the next higher or lower cycle). Major cycles are 7, 19, 57, 172, 515, and 1030.
Stephen Puetz wrote a book on the probabilities of cycles, tracking cycles back through the beginning of time. It’s called the Unified Cycle theory and you’ll find it in my recommended book list.
Below is the civilization chart I created (featured in the video). The data comes from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration—from the Greenland Ice Core Research project ending in 1992. Ice cores are an extremely accurate method of determining temperature back through the centuries.
Civilzation-chart
You can see the large temperature peaks every 1030 years – the red arrows. These extremely warm and wet periods supported bountiful crops and major societies grew to the height of their power.
The correlation of warm and wet climate with the rise of major civilizations is striking. When the climate turns warm and wet for long periods, the world’s greatest empires have emerged – Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Mayans, the Vikings, and so on.
When the climate grew colder, these great cultures fell into ruin. Bad things start to happen when climate turns cold and rainfall stops. Rome burned as it got colder. Hadrian’s Wall was built to keep out invaders at the bottom of a cold spell. Social mood always turns negative with colder climate. And that brings about riots and wars.
Cold periods often get labeled as dark ages, because there is little advancement of living standards.
So here we are at the top of the Modern Warm Period. Unless this time is different, the Earth is going to get a lot colder and dryer. Most likely for several hundred years. We’ll also see a major financial collapse. Yes, that’s one of the great features of the 172 year cycle. It’s happened throughout history, like clockwork.
Let’s look at climate cycles over the past eleven thousand years … the big picture:
Climate-Timeline-web
In the chart above, you can see that we came out of the glacial period about ten thousand years ago.And then we had these up and down periods of warm and cold … cycles. It’s like a giant sine wave. Temperature moves up and down over time … on a fairly predictable schedule.
Today, we’re in what’s called the Modern Warm Period. And there’s climate mania!—Even though it’s been warmer on Earth many times before and in fact the trendline shows it’s gradually getting cooler, because the Sun is cooling. Nobody disputes that—well, no astrophysicists, at any rate.
The next cold period is signified by the dark blue blob right below Climate Mania. It’s starting now. But, how do we know all this?
DrWheeler-and-the-Big-BookCU-web
In the early to mid 1900s, Dr. Raymond Wheeler, with a team of 200 researchers analyzed climate back 20 centuries to 600 BC. He used tree rings and sunspot records to plot both temperature and rainfall over that entire period.
He identified major climate cycles of 100, 170, 515, and 1030 years and predicted extreme weather at about the year 2000, followed by a turn colder and a long-term drought … and sure enough, that’s what seems to be happening. You can find his drought clock here. My video on Dr. Wheeler and his seasons is here.
The picture above shows Dr. Wheeler with “The Big Book,” over 2000 pages of all his data on climate cycles in which he correlated major events throughout history. He’s shown how climate cycles repeat with event patterns over and over again. The Big Book exists in the archives of Baruch College, in New York City.
big-book-today
Above is a picture of The Big Book today. I tracked it down in New York City recently.
In Dr. Wheeler’s own words:
The divisions of history long ago observed by historians—ancient, Medieval, and modern—are more than divisions of history. They are long climatic cycles.
The six century BC, the first AD, the fifth AD, and the 10th and 15th were all natural turning point in history, marked each time by the decline and fall of civilizations the world over and the birth of a new era. In each case these centuries terminated 500 year cycles in long range weather trends. Each was an exceptionally cold period in history..
The six century BC, the fifth AD, and the 15thmarked a end of the still longer cycle, on the order of 1000 years. These centuries were characterized by exceptionally profound reorganizations and revolutions in the civilizations of the world.
Current events show that another world convulsion is occurring second only to (1) the emergence of rational thought in the sixth century BC, (2) the fall of Rome and other ancient civilizations in the 5th-century and the beginning of the medieval world based on feudalism, and (3) the final collapse of the Middle Ages in the 15th-century. The current convulsion is comparable to the birth of Christianity in the first century and to the birth of the modern nation as a fuedal principality in the ninth and 10 centuries.
All of these reorganizations of society were marked by spurts in the evolution of democratic institutions.
In fact, the global temperatures have gone sideways since 1998 and the recent drop in solar activity is warning of much colder times ahead.
The head of the International Space Station, a Russian astrophysicist, with a name I can’t pronounce, has publicly predicted a mini ice age.
Next 25 years
The above chart shows the projection of solar maximums over the next 50 years or so. These cycles happen every 11.2 years and fluctuate in terms of their intensity over decades. The most recent solar cycle has been far less intense that previous ones and because the sun is responsible for our warmth, less intensity results in colder temperatures on Earth, just as it has during similar periods (the Little Ice Age, for example, on the “civilizations chart” above.
The Sun and the Planets are the main drivers of climate change on our tiny, little planet—we know that. And we can’t change Mother Nature.
Science tells us it’s going to get colder. If history is are guide, the colder climate will last for hundreds of years.
You see, history repeats … over and over again. So if you want to know the future, you look at the past.
https://worldcyclesinstitute.com/global-cooling/
Another massive post that I skip past. Suggestion – post a paragraph you think will catch our interest and leave the link. I’d pay much more attention if you did.
Corruption should be by far the biggest issue of concern for the upcoming election.
Agreed. Its the Liberal Way.
It’s the Cons way as well…
Not arguing, but the liberals are much more experienced.
“… national emergency …”
Noam Chomsky, in his book “Failed States”, refers to Climate Change as an “environmental collapse”, a “potential disaster”, “significant temperature reduction Europe.”
It’s ironic how even academics – the “educated ones” – and the wealthy are prone to hysteria.
One would think that, as one is more educated and/or more wealthy, one would NOT be prone to hysteria, but indeed they are and they are PANICKING.
Why?
As more and more academics and the wealthy have turned away from trusting in the God of the Bible, it has dawned on them that, in their world-view now, no one is in control. No God? No control. They and their world are at the mercy of unrelenting forces, one of those forces being the “others”. With an out-of-control situation, they will, with their brilliance and education, take control to ensure that their world, at the very least, is SUSTAINED.
And one of those ways is reducing the influence, the strength, of the “others”, for example, by taxing them into oblivion.
The lesson for all of us? Trust in God.
Excellent!!
Clearly AGW is a cultish flock of wandering lost sheep.
Makes sense. Clearly educated people are also affected by hysteria. It is nuts. Because most people do not investigate for themselves, they are easily taken in by propaganda, and the propaganda on this issue is overwhelming.
gary D…god is a larger scam than climate change. Butt I do believe the rcc quit burning witches by now
Just as I wrote: No God. No control.
You’re at the mercy of a unrelenting, merciless, unforgiving universe which doesn’t care one iota that you exist.
Jesus, on the other hand, fed thousands from a few fish and some bread. Not just once, but twice.
He gave sight to a man born blind, giving the man a life to live. Not a penny was asked for. He healed hundreds and even raised people from the dead. He demanded nothing from them except their trust.
Then, when the elites of his time felt threatened by his message of the good news of God’s love to everyone, they had him executed by one of the most vicious of governments in history, the Roman Empire.
Yeah, you’re right. “god is a larger scam than climate change.”
Gary at 1:17 wrote “Trust in God”
Which one?
I am already paying the HIGHEST energy rates in the USA … and nowwww …
http://www.mercurynews.com/pge-seeks-higher-rates-amid-push-to-address-wildfire-woes
Real reason for increasing rates? All the inefficient “green” nonsense that PG&E wastes my rates paying-for.
Speaking of recycling, I suspect the current wave of electing conservative governments in the provinces will cause the “democracy is bad for the environment” lecture to be dragged out one more time.
Another thing to remember is that all credible research shows that Canada has a net benefit from warming. 2C (and more) warmer than preindustrial levels . It decreases cold related deaths, increases the growing season and increases the CO2 fertilization effect. This warming helps humans, flora and fauna in Canada.
For Canada, adaptation and using technology to minimize the negatives makes more sense than mitigation through taxation. The measurable reduction of CO2 via mitigating through taxation are also quite minuscule compared to moving to natgas and nuclear. For example, the US is a world leader in actual real CO2 reductions, mostly due to changing from coal to natgas while BCs carbon tax has done next to nothing in CO2 reductions in the same time period (approx 10 years).
BCs carbon tax forces people to buy gasoline in the US.
You can only calculate carbon emissions through gas sales.
The gas sold in the US to BC residents is not calculated in the gasoline sales or used to calculate carbon emissions.
Everyone pats themselves on the back because the carbon tax has “reduced” emissions.
Easy with the f**king facts Davis, you’ll make a greentard do a Daffy Duck across a pond.
BCs gasoline sales in 2008 were 4.6 billion litres. In 2017 BC gasoline sales were 5.2 billion litres.
Obviously the BC carbon tax is working!! You just have to change the definition of work.
I’ve never heard a single pro CT economist mention cross border gas fill ups. They talk about intra provincial carbon “leakage” but completely ignore and fail to account for Canadians, the majority of who live near the US border, filling up in the US on a regular basis. One of the many ways that pro Carbon tax economists are fundamentally dishonest. They’re activists.
When I lived in S Sask, we would take a 15min drive to the US and go for wing night at the bar for the same price as filling up in Canada (depending on exchange rate). It was a weekly excursion.
That gas they buy in Blaine Washington is mostly from CANADA, with some input from ALASKA. That’s Alberta crude dickheads, whom BC blocks pipelines to the BC coast from Alberta, even to upgrade and increase the amount of product to service BC demand.
There is no other pipeline into Washington State from US sources. It all comes down Trans Mountain or from Alaska via tanker. Shut it down, Kenny and tell Horgan and Weaver they can start riding bicycles. Suddenly Whistler traffic grinds to a halt. Ever ride to Whistler from Vancouver? I have. Neither of those “green” dudes could make it up to the Upper Levels Hwy, in North Van, never mind past Lions Bay. Same for most Vancouver green virtue signalers.
the only negative about reducing CO2 is that if for some strange reason you manage to push it too low we will all die.
Of course Climate Change(TM) is a National Emergency. The sheep are starting to fuzzily recognize that decades of apocalyptic climate predictions haven’t come to pass and are beginning to view the whole affair with skepticism. This crisis puts funding at risk – and potentially more job losses than the 9,000 at risk with SNC Lavelin! Now if that isn’t an emergency, then what is?
Just got my natural gas bill today.
The carbon tax is now 123.2% of the cost of the natural gas on my bill.
And, by the way, Canada’s 5% GST is applied to that carbon tax. A tax that is taxed.
This is only a partial month since the increased carbon tax kicked in on April 1.
Thank you, Justin.
“‘International studies show we have about three to four years to turn things around,’ said Smith.”
In that case, there’s nothing we can do about it.
Yes, we’ve had 12 years to “turn the climate around” with giant government for at least the last 40 years; and counting.
Why should we believe anything these watermelons tell us, or care if they try to shame us, or pretend they have a clue?
Apparently China has killed us off at least four times. Then again limiting government retroactively kills millions.
The thing is the socialists, statists and totalitarians kill millions, for real. If only they were better people?
Like Bernie? Like OAC? He is a Soviet pawn and her wild eyes reveal she could kill millions, assured of her moral superiority.
IOW, just like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot and a host of other intellectual and well meaning socialist genocidal maniacs.
Unless a person can feed, house, and clothe themselves, aka the economy, nothing else really matters.
Thankfully people are finally seeing how corruption and taxes seriously affect the economy.
Can someone provide a link to the letter in question? Are there any people who would be interested in crowd-sourcing a point-by-point rebuttal?
Here it is
https://clean50.com/2019openletter/
See who started all of this clean 50 as well.
Thanks. Just sent this to the bosses at our oil field company. We’re switching away from HP starting tomorrow. I will be sure to print several copies of this list and hand them out to all the oil fields I work in.
I try to support companies that understand science and don’t belong to cults.
Looks like a bunch of them White Supremicists to me
3:45pm Eastern
Total Votes: 6417
Climate 12.39%
Economy 33.52%
Corruption 31.03%
Taxes 19.71%
Other 3.35%
The worker bees are getting home and totaling up for the responsible majority.
Voted from work too.
I remember when a Greenpeace Activist from our local university came to my door asking me for a donation because “in 20 years there will not be enough food in the grocery stores to feed the nation”.
I told him that I would not donate one cent to his Communist organization.
In addition, I said to him, “now I want you to mark today’s date down on your calendar. And here’s my statement to you. Twenty years from today, there will be more food in the grocery stores than today, thanks to Canadian farmers and their advanced techniques. Now make sure that you mark it down.”
He smirked at me and left my door.
That was precisely 20 years ago almost to the day because I marked down the date as well.
He was an example of the result of the halls of higher learning at work on our kids with brains of mush. And it’s only worse today.
I had a similar experience about the same time. An earnest Greenpeace canvasser attempted to answer my questions.
But he couldn’t, he had no clue, but seem genuinely disturbed by what I told him, without resorting to ridicule or insult.
For his good try, I gave him a $20 donation. If Patrick Moore ran them, I would give them even more $$.
Climate Barbie (I even forget her real name) and Trudeau seems to think that you persuade people by becoming more and more hysterical. They have totally overplayed their hand. This was necessary, though, because they otherwise have no case. They know that nothing done in Canada will impact climate change, so whyever should this be made a significant election issue? Unfortunately, I do not believe the hysteria will let up. Too many people have too much invested in this ruse.
“Climate Barbie (I even forget her real name) and Trudeau seems to think that you persuade people by becoming more and more hysterical. They have totally overplayed their hand.”
The entire climate-change bloc has overplayed its hand. It has now been 13 years since “An Inconvenient Truth”.
I believe that most people, other than committed ideologues and the easily manipulated such as Swedish schoolchildren, are simply tuning out.
Relax, relax. Help is here.
THE 2019 CLEAN50 AS ANNOUNCED IN THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Get thee down to the library and look it up in today’s G&M – pages B14 and B15.
And whatever happened to that water injection carburator that was supposed to save us mega-gasbucks?
Did Victoria get a prize for dumping raw sewage in the ocean?
They sure do,The Weaver Horgan.Loud and Smelly, in an odious manner.
In Victoria they don’t treat their turds, they elect the most offensive ones and flush the rest out to sea.
No wonder so many people don’t want kids, are anxious and pessimistic. And there is a general malaise about the future of our society.
Media and politicians keep inventing new crises to justify more government control, laws, regulations, taxes.
Every six months we must conform to new linguistic, cultural and social norms pushed by the radical Left.
Instead of having rational debates, we’re told the sky is falling and the world will soon end unless we change our way of life.
We need to refocus on the fundamentals.
Stop further complicating our lives with the latest Leftist fads.
We need more stability and security.
And we should trust FREE and RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE to run their lives, not the alarmist and controlling elites.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1121204755815120896
I wish people understood government better.
The sole purpose of government is to grow itself. That is it.
The primary tactic used to grow government, is to manufacture problems that only government can solve. Solving a problem always requires more MPs, more civil servants, more taxes, more programs, more studies, more legal opinions, more regulation, more red tape, more, more, more, …
So, just stop. Stop asking for more. Stop giving more. Stop voting for more.
If you are going to vote, vote only for less.
Less for yourself. Less for your street, Less for your city. Less.