- Yet another tipping point: The demise of Mark Carney’s beloved short-lived GFANZ may well be followed by the who-ever-heard-of-it “Dairy Methane Action Alliance” which only started in December 2023 but Nestlé has already bailed. It burbled the usual cover story about how it works best on climate alone, setting its own rules and grading its own work and continuing to, you know, make money. But we dare speculate that they actually discovered the climate alarmists’ prescriptions would destroy the economy without fixing the weather, starting with them, and that volunteering to go first has no upside.
- You want climate catastrophe? We got climate catastrophe. Courtesy of MSN, who forgot their script and brought us “When It Rained for Two Million Years: The Forgotten Climate Crisis of the Triassic”. Now that’s big, bad weather. And a big, bad name: “the Carnian Pluvial Event”. Yes, before man invented bad weather. And they concede, “Long before humans worried about climate change.” The Earth was recovering from the Permian Mass Extinction Event (lab dudes, if you’re going to call them all “Event” maybe just leave it off?) and new life forms were proliferating, in a world getting warmer and wetter. Then came this bizarre endless storm that among other things raised temperature further and… a great many species flourished even more dramatically, from conifers and ferns to, especially, the rising dinosaurs (and even early mammals who nevertheless had to wait a long time for the dinosaurs to cop a meteor, though as the Washington Post let slip, while many scientists think dinosaurs were flourishing until the moment of impact, others say not and “One theory as to why is climate change: The reptiles may have been slowing dying off due to global cooling before the impact.”). Oh, and nobody knows why it happened. Gad. Is everything we’re told about climate wrong?
- In its transformatively mundane overdue Canadian federal budget, the Carney Administration has chopped down Justin Trudeau’s comic “two billion tree” program as part of its supposed massive cuts to spending so it can massively increase spending, only the latter part of which will materialize. They insist, of course, that it succeeded while failing, having planted 988 million trees. No, wait. 988 million trees were “committed to be planted through various agreements with provinces, cities, First Nations, as well as other Indigenous and environmental organizations.” Only 228 million had actually been planted, often as part of plans already in place. Still, it was a great illustration of how governments that plan catalytically to leverage the transformation of the entire economy through an innovation-focused strategic vision, are unable to perform basic functions like silviculture (logging companies plant 600 million a year here) but are very good at saying they succeed when they plainly failed. And then people complained that their carriage had been decoupled from the vast federal gravy train. We’ll miss it too, but as a minatory example. And we’ll keep on planting trees ourselves because we like them and know how to do it.
- Oh, that’s original. Some guy tells TED that “voting is the single most powerful climate action most people overlook.” Sure thing. And just as voting for the free lunch party makes there be free lunch, voting for the better weather party brings better weather. All you need is political will. Or, in another it’s-dead-simple TED talk, some gal “challenges newsrooms to rethink how they cover climate change, connecting to the things readers love – whether that’s jobs, football or even a good mango – with three actionable tips for making overlooked stories irresistible.” Get your facts straight, learn some climate history and stop patronising us would be our three but we don’t get invited to give TED talks.
- While battling some ignorant political blather about unprecedented uncertainty in the modern world, one of us found ourselves Googling the exact date of the sack of Rome by Alaric, which was 410 AD. And look what some unwary editor allowed to remain in Wikipedia: “A recent summary interprets disease and climate change as important drivers of the political collapse of the empire. There was a Roman climatic optimum from about 200 BCE to 150 CE, when lands around the Mediterranean were generally warm and well-watered. This made agriculture prosperous, army recruitment easy, and the collection of taxes straightforward. From about 150, the climate became on average somewhat worse for most of the inhabited lands around the Mediterranean. After about 450, the climate worsened further in the Late Antique Little Ice Age that may have directly contributed to the variety of factors that brought Rome down.” Whaddaya know? Civilization and people flourish in warmth, and disaster strikes when it gets colder. Why weren’t we told?
- Wake us when the thing makes a sound: A Heatmap “Subscriber Briefing” hyperventilates “Fusion has the potential to be the holy grail of clean energy – a limitless, zero-carbon power source that always seems just out of reach. But lately, the field is moving faster than ever. Startups are racing to commercialize breakthrough designs, investors are pouring cash into prototype reactors, and scientists are celebrating milestones once thought to be impossible. So where does the technology actually stand today? And what will it take to turn fusion from a moonshot to a marketable power source?” No. You’re wrong, gullible and anti-science. It has not seemed “just out of reach”, it has seemed way out of reach. Nobody has made it work even very briefly and the bubble is just a bubble.
- Also from Heatmap, an email saying “At Heatmap, we’ve spent a lot of time this year digging into the political football that is the rising cost of electricity. And yet all the while, lawmakers all over the country have allowed public transit systems – equally critical to affordability and climate goals – to burn through their budgets and nearly run dry. Today’s story is about how public transit got into such a perilous budget crisis, and what it will take to solve it.” Political football? Yes of course the politicians are kicking it, or one another, all over the map on it. But there’s too strong a statistical correlation between rising energy prices and commitment to “green energy transition” alternatives to doubt where the rising costs are coming from. As for public transit systems, many of which have poured money into EVs, often with embarrassing results, what does falling ridership and the inability to survive without subsidies (both again from Heatmap not some right-wing outlet) tell you about the attractiveness or affordability of this supposedly superior alternative to your wretched private car? You told us it was all gain for no pain, and it seems to be the exact opposite.
- You’re confused, aren’t you? Hydro Ottawa hyperventilates about Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) then realizes normal people don’t talk that way and tells us they “allow you to generate and manage your own electricity using clean technologies like batteries, solar panels and even smart devices and appliances. As more Ontarians commit to climate action and energy independence, these resources are quickly gaining popularity.” What makes them think more Ontarians are committing to climate action, as opposed to energy “independence” from our gruesome power system (which under the cheery “Electricity rates changes coming November 1, 2025” announces yet more increases), is left unexplained. But the first DER is… aaaack!... an “Emergency back-up generator” because um uh “Although most generators use fossil fuels, they still fall under the DER umbrella.” Yeah. And nothing says climate action like a diesel generator, does it?
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We’re soon going to hear that the Late Antique Little Ice Age was a localized event. But given the dearth of reliable past weather data outside of Europe and North America, isn’t “climate change” also a localized event?