- Scorch watch: even when reporting that summer heat is yielding to autumn cool, the Globe & Mail feels obliged to say “Sweltering heat is expected to break in the coming days for many Canadians after Monday’s scorching temperatures broke dozens of daily heat records across the country.” Those records being, of course, not all-time but just for a given day or month.
- From the “talk is cheap” file, the National Post reports that “Chef Daniel Humm made history when he reopened New York City’s Eleven Madison Park (EMP) with an entirely meatless menu in 2021. It became the world’s first three Michelin-starred vegan restaurant the following year. After making the switch as a ‘creative leap and a climate imperative,’ Humm announced on Wednesday that he’s bringing meat back to the menu, telling The New York Times, ‘I didn’t realize that we would exclude people.’” Yeah. Paying people. When you’re selling food for US$365 a meal, you find swallowing your own posturing remarkably easy.
- On Monday August 18 we noted and flagged a spate of reprints of a Canadian Press story headlined “Hotter than average temperatures to last through September”. But when we went to collect this evidence just two days later, the story was now labeled “Wildfire season’s ‘not slowing down’: emergency management minister”. Could it have anything to do with the fact that it had cooled down? Anyway, we’ll keep our eye on that boldly retracted prediction… as on the one about wildfires.
- From the “weather vs climate” file, the Cornwall Alliance notes an item from BizPac Review about “a bone-chilling cold wave” in South America in July, their winter, “plunging nations like Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay into an energy crisis that laid bare the fragility of their power systems.” And yes, records were broken. Just not the kind that involve climate. “Snow blanketed Mar del Plata, Argentina, for the first time in 34 years, while the Atacama Desert, the world’s driest region, saw rare snowfall. Buenos Aires shivered at minus 1.9 degrees Celsius – the city’s coldest since 1991. Suburbs like El Palomar dropped to minus 7.4 degrees Celsius for the first time in decades. On June 30, Chile and Argentina ranked among the planet’s coldest spots outside polar regions.” Did you see one word of it in your local paper? One word?
- As we noted last week, the Canadian government is thrashing on the green energy transition, trying to boost productivity and good governance after a decade of neglect in favour of exotic woke causes while… pursuing exotic woke causes. And now Rebel News informs us that of the vaunted $8 billion boost to good old defence spending, fully $4.2 billion is to… “decarbonize” the military. Not buy weapons, pay soldiers or become more formidable. Instead to spend $472 per tonne, far above any rational estimate of the “social cost of carbon”, on a failed effort to green tanks we don’t even have or something.
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I'd imagine most tanks are already green, it's good camouflage in non-desert regions...
And in the hotter weather department, some weather guru's (i.e. meteorologists) are becoming, well "extreme?" In the Southern Alberta we have scary heat warnings that 29 or 30 degrees Celsius may ... whatever. And news from Seattle that 78 to maybe 82 degrees Fahrenheit will be sweltering. Note: these temperature to the average person at the beach are about the same. And, how can this be news? It's late summer. Late August. It's not even sauna level after all.
I look forward to seeing how effective the new sail driven tanks are as well as the glider air defence aircraft (probably windmill driven winch launched?) the DND (Department of No Defence) is going to buy for 4.2B
Green tanks, presumably battery powered, would face an interesting situation when it comes to recharge them under wartime conditions. Since EV charging stations may not be conveniently available in the heat of battle, they would have to be recharged using mobile generators - powered of course by diesel engines. So why not just put the diesel engines in the tanks?
Don’t kid yourself, Roger…..the military uses the CC aspect to bump their budgets. Weather satellites are also very useful surveillance satellites, ocean buoys measuring ocean current speed and temperature make excellent submarine detectors, $300,000 solar panels for APV’s are a good cover for the $ 299,900 fly-by fiber drone plus $100 solar panel….and so on.