- See those trees outside the window? Not really there: “Trees are losing the battle against climate change”. And that massive global greening over 40 years never happened, any more than the brutal winter still clutching most of North America as “Cold Canadian air has flooded into Mexico” and climate-obsessed cabinet ministers are forced to cancel dull photo ops “due to inclement weather”.
- Or relocate them to sunnier climates. For instance a sophomoric post “Big news! Team Canada is taking on Australia! 🇨🇦🤝🇦🇺 We’re bringing our biggest-ever trade mission to Australia with 220+ delegates from across all 10 provinces!” Coincidentally in the dead of winter in Canada and summer in Australia. While in Clare Valley, Australia, home of “world-class riesling”, “The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development,” a ludicrous post and a champion plane-crammer who recently also boasted of blasting off to Jakarta in mid-Canadian-winter “to lead Canada’s largest-ever Team Canada Trade Mission, to Indonesia and the Philippines”, met Don Farrell, who doubtless she had to be briefed was “Australia’s Minister for Trade and Tourism and Special Minister of State” as he needed to be told who this pest was. And they “discussed opportunities to advance the strong and diversified trade and investment relationship between Canada and Australia, which goes back 130 years.” The whole mission lasted just three days, hardly longer than it takes to fly there and back, as “an opportunity for participants to better understand the Australian market, expand business, and sharpen Canada’s competitive edge.” And expense their high living, and spew carbon. And there’s more where that came from, as “this was Canada’s 5th Team Canada Trade Mission travelling to its 7th Indo-Pacific market since 2023.”
- Oh, and speaking of Australia, its banks are now also fleeing Mark Carney’s collapsing Net Zero Banking Alliance, with Macquarie being the first to go but not, we confidently predict, the last. Though as one commentator snidely noted, they did their best to bury the news, fathoms deep in a press release that starts “For more than two decades, Macquarie has worked in close partnership with stakeholders in the public and private sectors to support the energy transition and advance solutions to climate challenges” and blats on about “climate mitigation” and “net zero plans” and “renewable energy transactions” and “the scaling-up of clean fuels and carbon capture and storage” before praising green finance generally and the NZBA in particular before suddenly going “With those building blocks now in place, like many peers Macquarie will no longer be a member of NZBA, as we focus on updating and delivering our plans and reporting in line with regulatory requirements.” With that kind of double-talk covering a mistake, maybe they have a future in politics.
- Another dispatch from fantasyland: Barron’s claims “Move Over, Florida. Retirees Are Making New Plans as Climate Change Raises Costs.” As for actual mobility data, well, who cares about that junk?
- From the “parody can’t keep up” file, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has some strange rule against “remote” airport towers, which are essentially cameras on tall sticks beaming data to key personnel safely on the ground. Instead, under Joe Biden, the U.S. government set aside half a billion dollars for manned “green” towers in regional airports that would be the magic word “sustainable”. And of course everybody wins; then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in April 2023. “I look forward to seeing this design go from the drawing board to construction sites across the country, helping our nation’s airports support more travelers, grow their local economies and prepare for the future of low-carbon aviation.” How a tower will help an airplane not need jet fuel was left unexplained, and probably just as well. But, best of all, the winning architectural firm is “dedicated to building ecological, equitable, and joyous communities.” And obviously nothing says joyous like an overpriced, obsolete air traffic control tower in Wichita.
- Although we at CDN remain resolutely opposed to geoengineering paranoia, as to all conspiracy theories, we do note that climate alarmists are working hard to make the geoengineering one reasonable. For instance the Washington Post chortles about “How an antacid for the ocean could cool the Earth”. As if humans have the power and wisdom to turn the oceans into something different and better. Humans who in many cases could not unclog a sink without professional assistance. Worse, the Post enthuses that “at least a couple of start-ups” are already doing pilot projects without permission, one of them “running a small site in Washington state that can remove up to 100 carbon metric tons per year and committed in October to remove 350,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere over the next decade for Microsoft.” If an oil company were trying to make the ocean absorb less carbon, do you suppose they’d say hey, it’s a free country? But if Microsoft decides to do a system update on the Pacific, or reboot the air, what could go wrong? (Extra points if you said “The system might freeze.”)
See Comments 
Tidbits
26 Feb 2025 | News Roundup
i think we are rapidly approaching the point where we have to start spelling out serious consequences for those attempting these schemes, im thinking of a televized event where someone like bill gates is given the full William Wallace send off, we need to get serious about these clowns sooner rather than later, again another thing for Trump and Chris Wright to look at.