Climate Alarmism
Hundreds of divers and snorkelers listened to an underwater concert that advocated coral reef protection Saturday in the Florida Keys.
The Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival, which also spotlighted eco-conscious diving, took place at Looe Key Reef, an area of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary located about 6 miles (10 kilometers) south of Big Pine Key.
Established in 1990, the sanctuary protects 3,800 square miles (9,800 square kilometers) of waters including the barrier reef that parallels the 125-mile-long (201-kilometer-long) island chain.
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Read MoreCabinet yesterday approved billions more subsidies for battery factories in what the Canadian Taxpayers Federation criticized as a free for all for foreign automakers. Aid totals more than $31 billion for three Ontario plants.
“The feds need to draw the line somewhere,” said Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Taxpayers’ Federation. “Taxpayers can’t afford to bankroll everyone and their dog who wants to make batteries.”
The Department of Finance confirmed it would spend billions in “performance incentives” for Stellantis electric auto battery plants in Windsor and Brampton, Ont. Stellantis is the parent company of Chrysler and Dodge.
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Read MoreAlberta Premier Danielle Smith met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday, where she told him a net-zero power grid by 2035 is “not possible.”
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Read MoreAlberta Premier Danielle Smith said she will stand tall on her position against the federal government’s plan of net zero by 2035.
Smith said the next step is going to be asking if the three other provinces who find themselves in this position Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia will join Alberta to challenge Ottawa over commitments to decarbonize Alberta’s electricity grid to net zero by 2035.
Although the federal government has the authority to enter into treaties such as the Paris Accord, it’s up to the provinces to implement those commitments. And those commitments set a deadline of 2050, not 2035.
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Read MoreThe Mounties in Alberta have charged a Saskatchewan man under the Forest and Prairie Protection Act, accused of starting a on Canada Day near Highway 27.
On Saturday, just before 8 pm, Mounties in Three Hills, about an hour-and-a-half drive northeast of Calgary, received a 911 call about a suspicious male leaving the area of a fire near the Morrin Bridge on Hwy. 27.
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Read MoreOn the Milne Fiord last summer, photojournalist Dustin Patar captured an image of two people peering into a deep crack in the ice, as they studied the impact of climate change on the Arctic.
“What they’re actually doing in that photo is looking to see if that crack goes all the way through into the water, below the ice,” said Patar, who took the image as a freelance journalist, but now works with CBC North.
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Read MoreCutting oil and gas production would be “dangerous and irresponsible”, the boss of energy giant Shell has told the BBC.
Wael Sawan insisted that the world still “desperately needs oil and gas” as moves to renewable energy were not happening fast enough to replace it.
He warned increased demand from China and a cold winter in Europe could push energy prices and bills higher again.
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Read MoreSayward RCMP are investigating wildfires on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, believing they may have been started intentionally.
“Witnesses in the area of Browning Creek just prior to its discovery observed some quad riders nearby,” B.C. RCMP Staff-Seargant Kris Clark said in a statement.
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Read MoreTrouble for Rishi Sunak mounts as the globalist PM sees approval rating fall into negative among Tory members for the first time, this coming as a group of his own rebel lawmakers launch a campaign to push the party to the right from within.
Amid failures to deliver on fixing the economy and stemming illegal — and perhaps more importantly to the Tory voting base — legal migration, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak now has a negative approval among the Conservative party membership, according to the monthly survey conducted by Conservative Home.
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Read MoreThe U.K. Met Office routinely claims heat records from thermometers that are so poorly sited the World Meteorological Society (WMO) attaches an error estimate stating they could be out by up to 2°C. This shock disclosure is contained in the reply to a recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request from the climate journalist Paul Homewood. One example is Porthmadog in North Wales that has provided a steady stream of Welsh records in recent years, and is sited in a vegetation sun trap near the North Wales coast.
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