Thoughts on BC Politics and More

We are told, ad nauseum, that the world is facing a climate crisis. To add to the hysteria, we are told that we are quickly reaching the point of no return. We are not doing enough, and not soon enough to prevent catastrophe. Now we are told that fires in the Amazon rain forest are an international crisis. G-7 leaders meeting in Paris pledged aid to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – finding equal to about equal one day’s cost of the G-7 meeting. Why didn’t the G-7 leaders insist that the Amazon rainforest be declared a world heritage site under protection from damage? All four nations, who have parts of the rain forest in their territory, are signators to the world heritage conventions, and would then have an obligation to protect the portions in their jurisdiction. Aid offered to help protect a heritage site lacks the political hazards of not doing so.         The term “crisis” has become meaningless. The Intergove...

Climate Change Dispatch (August 24 th ): In 2003 a Canadian  study  showed the “hockey stick” curve “ is primarily an artifact of poor data handling, obsolete data and incorrect calculation of principal components. ” When the data was corrected it showed a warm period in the 15th Century that exceeded the warmth of the 20th Century. So, the graph was junk science. But the big question then became: did Mann intentionally falsify his graph from motivation to make a profit and/or cause harm (i.e. commit the five elements of criminal fraud)? CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY : Professor Michael Mann , the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climatologist who invented the “hockey stick” model of future global warming has failed to defend his theory in court. During disclosure proceedings in his libel action against Dr. Tim Ball, Mann was ordered to produce the figures on which his theory is based in order that ...

Oil companies persuade states to make pipeline protests a felony By Bloomberg ~~ Aug. 19, 2019 After protesters disrupted construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota by chaining themselves to construction equipment and pitching tents along the route, oil and chemical companies found a way to keep it from happening again; they made it a crime ... ... Bills criminalizing trespassing near oil pipelines, gas processing equipment and other designated “critical infrastructure” passed this year in Indiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas -- building on similar measures previously enacted in Oklahoma and other states ... now pushing to create infrastructure protest laws in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. For the full story CLICK HERE : American oil duplicity and hypocrisy       American oil companies have successfully managed to make pipeline protests unlawful in some parts of the USA. At the same ...