Climate Alarmism
An Alberta grocery chain is speaking out after learning its specially designed bags will be targeted under the federal government’s single-use plastics ban – despite being compostable.
Calgary Co-op, which operates in central and southern Alberta, says it stopped using plastic bags four years ago, but, despite designing its compostable bags with Calgary’s municipal government, the company has found itself in bureaucratic crosshairs.
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Read More“That’s one of the toughest things for our people here, we live off the land, and they’re not too happy with all the destruction that’s been caused by these fires,” he said. “That’s where you feel the hurt.”
There were more than 100 fires burning in Quebec Friday, including 24 that were considered out of control, the province’s wildfire prevention agency—SOPFEU—said, adding that continued dry conditions were causing fires to gain strength. Since the beginning of the week, seven fires that had been contained were once again out of control, the agency said.
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Read MoreThe latest step in a woman’s legal fight over a Surrey oil drilling permit has concluded.
Sarah Finch’s lawyers told the Supreme Court that planning authorities should have considered the climate impacts of burning the oil, not just extracting it.
Surrey County Council said it followed planning law.
The case could spell the end of new UK fossil fuels projects when judges reach a decision in the coming months.
The climate impacts at the heart of the case are ‘downstream emissions’ – the greenhouse gas emissions released when the oil will be burned. Ms Finch says these are estimated to be 10 million tonnes over 20 years.
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Read MoreExtraction from one of the world’s largest natural gas fields will end in October, the Dutch government announced Friday, turning off a lucrative source of revenue that also sparked unrest by causing a string of earthquakes.
“The gas tap will be turned off on Oct. 1. That means an end to extraction after 60 years,” Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.
However, he said it remains possible gas could still be pumped from the Groningen field after that date if there is a “perfect storm” of an extremely cold winter this year and a problem with storage of gas from other sources amid ongoing concerns about gas deliveries caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Read MoreI found it hard to believe at first, but the United Nations website leaves no doubt about it: the UN recruited more than 100,000 ‘digital first responders’ worldwide during the corona crisis. Melissa Fleming, head of global communications for the United Nations, also described its function in a podcast: to detect and neutralize “misinformation” and “fake news” on social media as quickly as possible by countering it with “accurate, reliable information”.
The UN campaign also states it clear: digital first responders use their voice for good [sic], by providing life-saving [sic] information. The ‘digital first responder’ thus forms an addition to the now well-known ‘fact checker’. However, unlike the fact checker, the digital first responder doesn’t get paid and the UN doesn’t disclose who is working for them. Why not? Perhaps for this reason: whatever strategies these volunteers use, the UN’s image won’t suffer.
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Read MoreThe House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on how Joe Biden’s push for green energy and electric vehicles is impacting Americans on Thursday.
In a joint statement, Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) noted “people are struggling to afford some of the highest energy and auto prices in decades as a result of Biden’s energy and inflation crisis.”
His rush-to-green policies are hurting middle- and low-income families the most. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent regulatory efforts to advance this radical agenda, particularly on the kind of cars Americans can drive and the fuels they can use, risk further disrupting fuel markets and increasing transportation costs. We look forward to holding this hearing with EPA officials and stakeholders to discuss how we can increase—not limit—people’s choices and access to reliable, affordable transportation fuels and vehicles.
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Read MoreMuch of our understanding of anthropogenic climate change, and much of the debate over climate science and climate policy is based on information generated via mathematical modeling. Rarely, if ever, do we see much discussion of empirical measurements of climate change; global average temperature and sea level are rare exceptions. But empirical measurements of climate policy impacts, empirical measurements of changes that might, or might not, validate modeled projections of such climate changes, or empirical measurement of meteorological (weather) changes are scarce to non-existent in most media.
The list of modeled components of climate-change discourse is endless and model output information dominates nearly every element of discourse about the climate: modeling of how the climate works, modeling of what human activities influence the global climate, modeling of how human activities might influence the local climate, modeling of how climate changes manifest as weather or meteorological changes; modeling of how those activities might change over time, modeling of how public policies involving greenhouse gas controls might mitigate climate change; modeling of how people might respond to climate policies behaviourally (economically) and on and on.
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Read MoreThe internal intensity distributions of precipitation systems are closely related to precipitation dynamics. Understanding its climatology and changing characteristics is important for comprehending climate change, enhancing atmospheric model, and obtaining accurate hydrologic responses. However, due to the various limitations of precipitation observations, the internal intensity distributions of global precipitation systems have not been thoroughly investigated. This study uses the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) data during 2001–2020 to investigate the internal intensity distributions of global precipitation systems, by analyzing the climatology and changes in the radial intensity distributions and the core-region intensity of precipitation systems. The results indicate that precipitation systems with larger spatial sizes tend to have higher intensity. Small- and medium-size precipitation systems exhibit the most obvious changes in the inner regions of precipitation systems, with higher intensity during 2001–2010 than 2011–2020. The large-size precipitation systems have slightly higher intensity at each radius of the systems during 2011–2020.
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Read MoreA report published in 2019 and re-emphasized in 2023 recommends that by 2030 we will not be permitted to eat meat or dairy products, we will be limited to three items of new clothing per year and one airplane flight every three years. It will start in countries that “consume the most.”
Published in 2019, ‘The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World’ report sets out targets for cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as consistent with the 2015 Paris Agreement ambitions. What this report aims to do is quantify and then suggest ways for city “leaders” to reduce consumption-based emissions. In other words, reduce what you and I consume be it food, clothes or travel, etc.
The place to start, a press release stated, is with those who consume the most, and “consumption-based emissions must be cut by at least 50% by 2030.”
The report outlines six sectors where the world’s cities can take “rapid action to address consumption-based emissions”: food, construction, clothing, vehicles, aviation, and electronics.
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