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Anyone like me who knows Al Gore's snake-oil salesman's pitch regarding anthropogenic climate change and sea levels rising 20 stories in 10 year (2006-16) is nothing but a scam to extract billions through fear and carbon taxes will enjoy this slice of real climate change history. In Earth's history what has 10years got to do with anything?

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A Brief History of Colorado Through Time (Geology of Colorado)

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  below: Added Viewing enjoyment

Suez Canal Fly Over TBM930 to Port Said Egypt

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As seen on TV this morning:
Thursday, May 21 2020
 “It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes.”

 IMO, this is the only way one can take the COVID into their body. The virus does not penetrate one's skin.
Therefore, one does not get the virus; one has to take the virus (into their own body). End of story.  

All the rest is hyperbole: shutting down the entire economy, social distancing, self-isolating, etc., etc., is (and was), IMO, a waste of time, money and energy.

STOP putting unwashed hands or fingers near one's mouth;  
STOP wiping one's eyes without using tissues and
STOP putting fingers in one's nose are ingesting droplets from others. The latter may be palliated by the wearing of a facemask.

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"The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it." -- George Orwell

DISCLAIMER: FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

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This morning we walked the Galloping Goose Trail (GGT) beside the Gorge Waterway. Our kid's texted us and they are walking The E&N Rail Trail in Esquimalt — and they sent pictures-to-prove it.

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Watched Planet of the Humans by Michael Moore et al, last night on YouTube. The 1¾hr production blows the cover off The Greens' hypocrisy regarding renewable energy as defined by them.

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They will continue to tell The Lie but they will know we know that anthropogenic climate change is all lies. It always was a lie and will always remain a lie.

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Full 1¾hr, Documentary

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As near as one can tell from local reports, the Indian and environmental protesters blocking Canadian railways, ferries, government offices and roads want to return to a former existence which did NOT include: anything with wheels on it; a written language; music (with tonal scales); any scientific discoveries;  mathematics; any medical discoveries; any knowledge of human anatomy;  metallurgy; putting sails on boats nor mechanical devices nor any notable inventions.

It should appear to any logical, thinking person they all must be insane.

N.B. Being Prime Minister of Canada is just a stepping stone for Trudeau to being the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About BC's Coal Exports . . . but were afraid to ask because someone may actually tell you the truth.

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Yes, anti-pipeline Vancouver really is North America’s largest exporter of coal

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A city dead set against expanding petroleum exports is decidedly less irked about another type of fossil fuel Ships are loaded with coal at Westshore Terminals in Delta, B.C., on Wednesday February 19, 2014. The terminal is North America's largest single coal export facility Lately, it’s one of the few things that oil boosters and environmental activists can agree upon: Calling Vancouver a hypocrite for opposing carbon emissions while also being the continent’s largest coal port.

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And both camps are correct. According to the data, Canada’s mecca of anti-pipeline sentiment does indeed rank as the largest single exporter of coal in North America. Much of Vancouver’s coal is handled by a single facility that ranks as the largest of its kind on the continent. Westshore Terminals loaded 29 million tonnes of coal in 2017, nearly triple the combined coal exports of the entire U.S. West Coast.

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It’s also right next to the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, making it a familiar sight to any passenger aboard a ferry arriving from Vancouver Island. Currently, Westshore Terminals is in the midst of a $275 million upgrade to “replace aging equipment and modernize our office and shop complex,” according to the company “Coal production is a mainstay of the province’s economy, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue and supporting thousands of well-paid jobs,” reads the website for B.C.’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. Coal is the province’s number one export commodity, with $3.32 billion of coal mined in 2016. Much of this is metallurgical coal, which is exported to Asia for the making of steel.

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In recent years, however, Vancouver’s coal ports have also accommodated a massive increase in exports of thermal coal, which is used for the production of electricity. Coal is moved at Neptune terminals, North Vancouver, April 28 2017. Controversially, almost all of this thermal coal is coming from the United States. As lawmakers in Washington and Oregon have begun shutting down their own coal ports due to environmental concerns, thermal coal producers in Wyoming and Montana have simply diverted their product through Canada.

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In August, then-premier Christy Clark called for a ban on Vancouver exports of U.S. thermal coal in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber.

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“They are no longer good trading partners with Canada. So that means we’re free to ban filthy thermal coal from B.C. ports, and I hope the federal government will support us in doing that,” she said at the time.

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In the main, however, Metro Vancouver has benefited handsomely from the presence of the coal industry, according to numbers compiled by the B.C.-based Coal Alliance. Between 2012 to 2017, coal-related companies spent $2.29 billion in Metro Vancouver, including $470 million in the City of Vancouver proper

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One the most visible contributions of the coal sector has been as a key sponsor of the Vancouver Aquarium. In 2012 Teck Resources donated $12.5 million to the attraction, the aquarium’s largest-ever single donation.

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It’s difficult to precisely calculate the lifecycle carbon footprint of Vancouver’s coal exports, given that the city’s ports handle a variety of coal types, each with their own specific emissions profile. But according to emissions formulas used by the Sierra Club, Vancouver’s 2017 coal exports will produce 99.8 million tonnes of CO2 over their lifetime. For context, this is significantly higher than B.C.’s entire carbon footprint. In 2014, B.C. estimated that it produced 64.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent

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It also means that B.C.’s existing coal exports are roughly as bad for the climate as anything scheduled to come out of the Trans Mountain expansion. The completed Trans Mountain expansion would move 215 million extra barrels of diluted bitumen per year. Depending on the kind of Alberta bitumen the pipeline will be moving at any one time, this means that total product shipped through the expansion will emit between 129 million and 158 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over its life-cycle.

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written by Tristin Hopper Reference cited 

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"We Have Met the Carbon Enemy and He is Us"

Why writers who are supposedly putting forward our arguments still refer to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as the 'enemy' and something to reduce (hopefully not something to 'eliminate' as there would be no life of any kind on planet Earth) is beyond me.

Dr. Plimer has stated repeatedly (sorry, I can't find the reference right now) that if mankind burnt all the known resources of fossil fuel on Earth, the CO2 level -- under present world, atmospheric and celestial conditions -- could not and would not rise it above 800 ppm; still far short of the ideal living conditions for life on Earth (including humans) of 1000 ppm.

The real kicker in the argument that taking money out of our pockets and putting into governments' pockets is simply insanity if anyone believes it has anything to do with controlling Earth's climate. In Canada, it just means Trudeau can buy more clown suits for himself and his family when travelling abroad. LOL

Here's another dichotomy of this argument (all vying for first place): The climate-kooks form political parties to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere and name them -- Green.
We, hope to increase CO2 and are referred to as ' browns'  (for burning up the planet in some imaginary heat wave). The truth is in reality the reverse of these conditions.

We are the real 'greens' by increasing CO2 and thus stimulating more plant growth and making the planet greener and they do the opposite making it browner by depriving plant life of the nutrient they need most -- CO2.

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Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in existence. It is second only to water as the most-consumed resource on the planet.

But, while cement - the key ingredient in concrete - has shaped much of our built environment, it also has a massive carbon footprint.

Cement is the source of about 8% of the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to think tank Chatham House.

If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest CO2 emitter in the world - behind China and the US. It contributes more CO2 than aviation fuel (2.5%) and is not far behind the global agriculture business (12%).

 Reference cited:

N.B.  Remember: this is good. The more CO2 in the atmosphere the better. There would be no life on Earth without carbon dioxide. Plant production (food) has increased worldwide by over 20% during the past few decades. Just imagine how wonderful life will be on Earth if it increases to approximately 800 ppm.? Drill baby drill.

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If you are green to gardening you might not know that carbon dioxide, the gas we all exhale, is critical to plant growth and development. Photosynthesis, the process through which plants use light to create food, requires carbon dioxide. CO2 concentration in ambient air ranges from 300-500 parts per million (ppm), with a global atmospheric average of about 400 ppm.

If you are growing in a greenhouse or indoors, the CO2 levels will be reduced as the plants use it up during photosynthesis. Increasing the CO2 levels in these environments is essential for good results. Additionally, there are benefits to raising the CO2 level higher than the global average, up to 1500 ppm. With CO2 maintained at this level, yields can be increased by as much as 30%!
Reference cited:

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We often hear about the 'truth' about climate change, pollution in the atmosphere and greenhouse gases. The term 'greenhouse gas' refers to any gas in the atmosphere that has the ability to raise the ambient air temperature on planet Earth. The most significant greenhouse gas in reality is water vapour in the atmosphere but one never hears this fact if only getting their information from local media. Fake news, some have called these.

This brings us to another truth we never hear on local media. Many actual greenhouse operators buy carbon dioxide (CO2) to inject into their greenhouse to increase production and quality of whatever plants they are growing. Here's an online gardening site explaining how it works.
Check it our for yourself HERE

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Here's an excerpt from that site: Managing Carbon Dioxide in Your Grow Space February 25, 2014 by fifthseason 

If you are green to gardening you might not know that carbon dioxide, the gas we all exhale, is critical to plant growth and development. Photosynthesis, the process through which plants use light to create food, requires carbon dioxide. CO2 concentration in ambient air ranges from 300-500 parts per million (ppm), with a global atmospheric average of about 400 ppm. If you are growing in a greenhouse or indoors, the CO2 levels will be reduced as the plants use it up during photosynthesis.  

Increasing the CO2 levels in these environments is essential for good results. Additionally, there are benefits to raising the CO2 level higher than the global average, up to 1500 ppm. With CO2 maintained at this level, yields can be increased by as much as 30%!

 Commercial greenhouses are aware of this and commonly use CO2 generators to maximize production.

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So there you have it: Carbon dioxide is not a poison, it is not a pollutant and the only time it is greenhouse gas is when it is used in a greenhouse for the reasons previously stated.

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What more proof does one need to prove anthropogenic climate change is the biggest scam ever perpetrated upon humankind. Its sole purpose is take money out of your pocket and put it into their pockets in the form of a carbon tax.

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1) C02 is not a poison
2) Co2 is not a pollutant
3) C02 is not a significant greenhouse gas

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Disclaimer: The fact the Earth's climate has always changed and will continue to do so is not up for discussion. It is fact. What is up for discussion is whether it is caused by mankind (anthropogenic) or natural occurrences.

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What more can we say about it? Everyone who believes in anthropogenic climate change is either and idiot, wantonly ignorant or totally in the money-tank. Out west here they used to say: "There's gold in them thar hills." Now it's: "There's gold in them thar anthropogenic climate change lies."

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Every doomsday utterance by mankind throughout human history has proved to be wrong -- anthropogenic climate change is no different and will be proven to be pure bullschitt.

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Read what is on Breitbart  this morning by James Dilingpole referencing:
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich

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The punchline for me is this: "If you’re an environmentalist, there are no penalties for failure. 

Being so totally, comprehensively, embarrassingly wrong has never stopped Professor Paul Ehrlich being cited by the liberal media as a guru on environmental issues. He has never had to give back the millions of dollars he made peddling that enviro-doom snake oil in The Population Bomb.

Same goes to all those of his colleagues in academe who’ve been peddling similar nonsense about climate change, sea level rises, ocean acidification, species extinction and extreme weather.

Those few of us who insist on writing the truth about the environment: we’re in the wrong business, aren’t we?"

P.S. Keep smiling -- it drive 'em nuts!

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Puerto Rico has an excellent learning moment regarding the loss of electrical power due to the recent hurricanes.
98% of their electricity was generated from fossil fuels.
Now that the entire system must be replaced why not switch to solar and wind power generation?
Both are what is described as being unreliable; i.e., no sunshine no solar power and no wind no turbine power.

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But, what the heck . . . who cares.

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For years the climate cultists have preached no more fossil fuel generated electricity so here's a splendid opportunity to practice what they preach.
We all know it won't happen because the whole concept is bull feathers.
It's too expensive and too unreliable.
Let's wait and see what the final decision is regarding the replacement power source for Puerto Rico.
If it's fossil fuel again we all have to acknowledge all the talk was just that -- talk.

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Remember: there's two types of energy -- reliable and unreliable. My bets on reliable.

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Here is how Joel B. Pollak wrote it at Breitbart: 

"Puerto Ricans themselves are “very happy” with Trump’s response, which local officials have also praised. The attempt to argue otherwise is just the left’s latest effort to rile up Hispanic voters. But the sheer scale of the devastation is real.

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There is a silver lining, however, in the storms that have all but destroyed the island: Puerto Rico now has a chance to rebuild. The past few years have been brutal for the island’s economy, and its government is essentially bankrupt and in default. Congressional efforts to manage the crisis have been poorly conceived, and hampered by the danger that bailing out Puerto Rico could create bad incentives for spendthrift blue states like Illinois and California.

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In addition, the scale of the damage means that Puerto Rico can be built in a more sensible and sustainable way, with more durable structures that are more appropriate to the occasional hazards of the Caribbean climate. There is an opportunity to replace poor housing stock with new buildings; to bring in better building materials and designs; and to re-shape the island’s urban landscapes to offer a more attractive destination for foreign direct investment.

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Puerto Rico’s disaster is therefore also its golden opportunity. With the right leadership, and the right stewardship from Washington, the island can be set on a new course to take advantage of the opportunities of the 21st century that have, thus far, passed it by. It may take years — slowly, slowly, as the smash hit “Despacito” suggests — but it can happen. And one day, the hurricane season of 2017 will not only be mourned, but also seen as a breakthrough."

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We're talkin' anthropogenic global warming here -- not the natural kind.

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Thanks, Jack, for the electric vehicle (EV) report by David Yager, Yager Management Ltd., Oilfield Services Executive Advisory on Energy Policy Analysis, dated July 26, 2017.

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Presuming the information contained therein is factual, it's a real eye-opener. I was cognizant of the fact the energy derived to power EVs did not come from current bushes (an old boy scout joke) but it is surprising to learn the production of said energy releases double the amount of carbon-dioxide (CO2) as fossil fuel power vehicles.

Having said that, it's good remind people carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant nor is it a poison -- as climate-cultists are telling us with never-ending regularity. CO2 supports life on Earth. There is NO life on Earth without carbon. Most of Earth's carbon is NOT held nor contained in its atmosphere. Most is in the oceans, rocks and living things. The fact is -- up to a certain point -- the more CO2 in the atmosphere the better.

The main benefit to humans is increased food production due to increased plant growth.

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Scientifically and factually, CO2 is not a green house gas (GHG) and does NOT increase the Earth's temperature. it has been proven many times over that first the Earth's temperature rises then -- approximately 800 years later -- Earth's CO2 increases. So from my perspective, the whole anthropogenic global warming scam is based upon lies and will someday be found to be just that -- a scam.

This part of Yager's article caught may attention: " . . . the world’s largest manufacturer of EVs thanks to domination of that market, saw EV sales drop 34% in Q1 2017 once state funding was reduced in January."

As governments continue to collect and increase carbon taxes these subsidies should be reinstated to assist citizens to achieve the government's object: more electric vehicles. I am not against electric vehicles. Recently, I rode an electric-assist bicycle (e-bike) and they are awesome. The take-away from it all is the fact atmospheric carbon-dioxide is a good thing.

Estimates are that even if all the known reserves on Earth were burned over the next 3000 years (that's how much fossil fuel is stored in the Earth), this would only raise the atmospheric CO2 levels to 800 parts per million (PPM). Scientists estimate the ideal atmospheric CO2 level to suit humans' needs should be between 1000-2000ppm.

Drill baby drill!
Burn baby burn!
The future looks good -- despite what Al Gore says.

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Carbon Dioxide In Greenhouses
Introduction:

The benefits of carbon dioxide supplementation on plant growth and production within the greenhouse environment have been well understood for many years. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an essential component of photosynthesis (also called carbon assimilation). Photosynthesis is a chemical process that uses light energy to convert CO2 and water into sugars in green plants. Growers should regard CO2 as a nutrient.

What? A nutrient? Al Gore and the climate-cultists are telling us CO2 is pollutant and a poison. CO2 is the building-block of life on Earth and it is benificial to all living things -- including humans. There are benefits to raising the CO2 level higher than the global average -- up to 1500 ppm. With CO2 maintained at this level, yields can be increased by as much as 30%!

Here is the proven fact: If Earth's CO2 levels were raised from its paltry 400ppm ot between 1000-2000 ppm life on this planet would be a veritable Garden of Eden for all -- including human beings. Sadly, will never occur. It is estimated by Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD, that if all known reserves of fossil fuels on Earth were burned, the CO2 levels in the atmosphere would only reach a modest 700-800 ppm. Only half (½) of burned fossil fuel CO2 shows up in the atmosphere. Most of it goes into the growth of trees, plants and crops.

Today, with Earth's atmosphere at 400 ppm of CO2, there is 850 billion tons of carbon in the atmosphere. By comparison, when life first formed on our planet, there were15,000 billion tons of carbon in Earth's atmosphere (18 times the present level). Plants and soil combined contain nearly 2,000 billion tons of carbon -- more than twice as much contained in the atmosphere. The oceans contain 38,000 billion tons of carbon (more than 45 times what is held in the atmosphere).

Is the increase in carbon emissions going into the atmosphere?

No. 

Today's carbon emissions are spread throughout the plants, soil and oceans. So can we all agree carbon is NOT the enemy? Can we agree carbon is the reason we are alive? Carbon is not making the world much warmer -- if at all.

Over the past 150 million years, atmospheric carbon has gone down on average by 90%. This is troubling trend and poses a real threat to life on Earth. Plants require a minimum of 150 ppm of atmospheric carbon to survive. If the present CO2 levels continue to decline at this rate, life on this planet will end in less than two million years. This is not a long time in geological terms. By continuing to utilize fossil fuel for our energy needs we are increasing the chances of survival for life on Earth.

Reference cited: Dr. Patick Moore, Phd. et al

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"Always cite your references." is what Jack was telling us at coffee break.
So, here's one reference to the following facts about Arctic polar bears:
Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg pp. 4-6

Times Colonist Article
 
It reads as follows: "Polar bears would stand a greater chance of avoiding extinction if people stopped shooting them than if they reduced greenhouse gas emissions, according to a book by a leading environmental skeptic.

Bjogrn Lombor, the Danish professor who achieved international fame with his previous book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, examines and rejects claims by environmentalists and the former president Al Gore that polar bears are drowning because the sea ice they hunt on is melting.

Lomborg says the story about drowning bears is taken from a single sighting of four dead bears the day after an abrupt windstorm.

The bears came from a population that was actually increasing, which has been the overall trend in the polar bear population since the 1960s.
He provides evidence that 11 out of 13 distinct populations of polar bears in Canada are either stable or increasing in number.

In his new book, Cool It: the Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, Lomborg quotes a Canadian government biologist who said: "They are not going extinct or even appear to be affected at present." -- end of article.

Facts stated by Lomborg are based upon scientific research and not Al Gore's hyperbole. Deniers of anthropogenic climate change (us) have known these facts for years. As with all known, scientific geological and atmospheric research, these facts can be proven by intense study and then recorded in journals and scientific papers. By referencing such scientific records, we learn that Earth was formed 4.543 billion years ago (bya) and has had a modern atmosphere since 2.3bya. The modern mix was finalized with the addition of oxygen. We also learn that Earth's climate has always changed and will continue to change.

This brings us to the February 26, 2017 Times Colonist (TC) article on p.C3 titled: "Polar Bears Defy Scientists’ Forecasts" by Bob Weber

The Times Colonist report on p.C3 concludes with the following:
"The report was commissioned in part to provide recommendations to wildlife managers on appropriate hunting quotas. However, its authors declined to offer advice on how many bears can be sustainably harvested [Eds Note: killed]. The authors, an international group of polar bear experts, say they weren’t given enough information on management objectives for the bears, commitments on the frequency of future monitoring, or how much risk managers are willing to assume."

This statement: " . . . say they weren’t given enough information," is quite telling regarding these 'researchers' qualifications to publish.

Given information by whom?

 Al Gore?

Most people believe 'scientists' gathered and published facts derived from their own research.

There are 'real scientists' out here doing just that. And those of us denying anthropogenic (if you do not know what anthropogenic means you have our permission to leave this conversation now) climate change, have relied upon scientific research.

Swedish scientist, Bert Bolin is credited with initiating the idea climate change is related to Co2 in the atmosphere. It was at the height of the cooling scare in the 1970s, Swedish scientist, Bert Bolin suggested man-made (anthropogenic) carbon dioxide Co2, may help to warm the planet.

So there you have it.

This TC article is a way, in my opinion, of saying that climate-cultists don't know squat about what is happening with polar bear populations, never did know, but now they are admitting they didn't know and still don't know.

N.B. The best way to save polar bear populations is to get 'game' hunters to stop killing them.
It certainly isn't a 'game' for the polar bears.

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Well, I've been AWAL. Simply because we have not gotten back to walking since getting over our bouts with the flu.

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How long ago was that? I can't even remember but it doesn't mean we have not been busy.

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Here's some correspondence written to a friend yesterday:  

Thanks for forwarding this to us, Ralph.

 I bought Bjorn Lomborg's book: Cool It, December 24, 2015 and have made a profound study of it since. It seems to me, each author takes a different slant on the subject which is logical as their backgrounds all vary.

It's always good to get a second opinion -- or a third, even. That's why it is recommended reading for us to read other book such as:
Heaven and Earth, global warming, the missing science, by Dr. Ian Plimer  
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuel by Alex Epstein

All are available from the Greater Victoria Public Library  

Our argument should emphatically state that more -- not less -- C02 is beneficial not only to plants (which is obvious to anyone other than an idiot) and humans. A robust Co2 enriched atmosphere will -- and has caused in the past -- golden days of growth and prosperity for the entire Earth -- including its human inhabitants.

Said humans are simply a part of Earth's many such, carbon-based life-forms. Dr. Ian Plimer, geology professor emeritus, best illustrates this with his geological knowledge, studies and research in his book mentioned above. Highly recommended reading.

 Dr. Ian Plimer's Video https://youtu.be/94BeCbh80EQ

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Climate Change Deniers by Bill Irvine

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There are two distinct groups of humans on Earth today: those who recognize Earth's climate is a natural occurrence and those who claim the changes are caused by human activity (anthropogenic) in their course of burning fossil fuels. Those who claim the changes to Earth climate are caused by anthropogenic influences are referred to as climate-cultists and those who acknowledge the fact -- based upon scientific evidence -- that Earth's climate has always changed are referred to as climate change deniers.

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These two definitions are in direct opposites to the facts.

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The group claiming that Earth's climate only started to change after mankind started fueling their power requirements by burning fossil fuels are the actual deniers. This group of climate-cultis (yes, their movement is cult-like with fervent, religious undertones) only believe what former Vice President, Al Gore, and director Davis Guggenheim told them during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006. Guggenheim is the director of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" featuring Gore. Ten years after-the-fact, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, came and went with little mainstream media reporting so much as a modicum of coverage regarding Gore's dire predictions not happening.

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Gore's message, in a nutshell was: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Wake up before it's too late!"

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On January 26, 2006, The Washington Post stated Gore, "believes humanity may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan". Gore won an Oscar and Nobel Prize for sounding the alarm in book and film as a "Climate Control Caped Crusader". President Obama subsequently picked up the "crisis" telling world leaders that "climate change (not Islamic terrorism or skyrocketing, unsustainable US 20 Trillion debt) is the number-one issue facing us today." At the recent Global Paris Summit he pushed this agenda with urgency. The cost of his United Nations Global Warming Treaty came in at $12.1 Trillion or $484 Billion dollars yearly according to sources. After leaving the vice-president's office with assets of $2 million, Gore now has wealth estimated at over $100 million. Gore's movie cost $1 million and brought in $50 million. He hauls in at least $100,000 in speaking fees, is tied to at least 14 green-tech firms, sits strategically on certain boards, plus benefits from Obama grants and millions in tax breaks. He's on his way to becoming what one congressional leader called, "our first carbon billionaire."

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The good news is that many people are wising up! Because of longstanding behavior that is suspect to say the least, multitudes view as con artists multimillionaires like Gore, Michael Moore, the Clintons and others who prey on the gullible and get rich off causes, advance their fame and live lavish lifestyles off the backs of the unsuspecting believers.

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Gore's predictions fall flat: Ten years after Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" dire predictions, here's how accurate his "science" proved to be on his way to the bank.
1.) Rising sea levels—inaccurate and misleading. Gore was even discovered purchasing a beachfront mansion. Often when the water level covers the land it is caused by subduction (the land sinks) due to the natural effects of plate tectonics, which are in a constant state of change - lands risng and lands falling (subduction).
2.) Increased tornadoes — actually, have been declining for decades.
3.) New ice age in Europe — it never happened.
4.) South Sahara Desert drying up — it never happened..
5.) Massive flooding in China and India — it never happened.
6.) Melting Arctic ice — it never happened. In fact, 2015 represents the largest refreezing in years.
7.) Polar Bear Extinction — actual numbers are increasing!
8.) Temperature increases due to CO2 — no significant rising for over 18 years. Referred to as "the pause".
9.) Katrina, a foreshadow of the future (false), during the past 10 years, America has seen not one category, F3 hurricane -- North America has seen the longest drought ever.
10.) The Earth would be in a "true planetary emergency," within 10 years unless drastic action is taken to reduce greenhouse gasses.

"Greenhouse gasses" to the cultists means CO2. Carbon dioxide is not a greenhouse gas (it does not make the planet warmer). The most influential greenhouse gas is water vapour -- over which mankind has no control -- and hence is not even mentioned. If mankind devises a way to "cut down the clouds", this may become a viable option sometime in the future. LOL

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Just In From Breitbart News

2016 will go down in history as the year when the world finally saw sense. Nowhere will this be more apparent than in America’s bold and brilliant decision to elect Donald Trump who, in my view, is set fair to be one of the truly great U.S. presidents.

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I realize that this isn’t obvious to some people—even those who claim to be on the conservative side of the political argument. But after a recent trip to D.C. for some private briefings, both with his transition teams and with key members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, I came away more confident than ever that Trump has what it takes—especially when it comes to dealing with arguably the most dangerous menace of our time: the massively corrupt, overblown, expensive, misanthropic, bullying, insidious, ugly, mendacious and hideously destructive environmental industry—aka The Green Blob.

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Sure there are other geopolitical threats out there—from ISIS, Iran and the crumbling EU to a muscle-flexing Russia and an increasingly arrogant China—but there’s probably none which has quite so big an impact on ordinary peoples’ daily lives, on their economic and social wellbeing, and on their children’s future as the Green Blob.

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The Green Blob’s tentacles extend everywhere: into our kids’ classrooms (where they are brainwashed with environmental propaganda); into our universities (where whole departments have now been hijacked by green junk science—because hey, that’s where the money is); into the mainstream media (most of which repeats, unquestioningly, the spurious claims of impending eco-disaster put out by environmental activists and publicity-hungry university departments); into business, which now wastes billions on environmental compliance and billions more on energy costs artificially inflated by the almost entirely unnecessary government-mandated drive for renewables); into government (where few politicians, even now, have the nous to appreciate that they have been sold a pup and who still continue to inflict more “sustainable” initiatives on their hapless electorates); into the economy, where jobs have been killed and growth blighted by measures designed by eco-fascists on a self-admitted mission to destroy Western industrial civilisation; into the environment, which has been ravaged by the very things we’re told are supposed to help save it—from bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco crucifixes to those forests in the US which have been chopped down to create wood-chip biofuels to be burned at Britain’s Drax power station to the rare-earth minerals mined in appalling conditions in China to make wind turbines; into the cost of living (inflated by green taxes, regulations and tariffs), where in some cases people have been driven into fuel poverty and an early death because governments like Obama’s have caused electricity prices “necessarily” to “skyrocket” by mandating renewables over cheaper, more reliable fossil fuel.

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This insanity has been allowed to prevail, largely unchecked, for over four decades. While enriching a corrupt few, it has caused misery to billions. It costs the global economy at least $1.5 trillion every year in “decarbonisation” expenditure which serves no purpose other than to give virtue-signallers a warm glow of self-righteous satisfaction.

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And no major politician, anywhere in the world, has had either the courage or the conviction to deal with it.

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Until now.

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The Donald Trump presidency is a game changer. It’s the black swan event the world so sorely needed to avert what was threatening to become an out-of-control disaster.

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Monday morning we walked up through UVic and returned the same route after making a loop through Finnerty Gardens. What a beautiful, sunny, fall day.

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Many Americans, and, indeed, others, have been wondering how President-elect, Donald J. Trump, came to be in that position. Read below a couple of clips from Breitbart News. Mr. Trump also named former Breitbart CEO Steve Brannon as Senior Advisor (SA) to the President. Hopefully this will put an end to all the hyperbole spewing out the Obama white-house regarding anthropogenic global warming and unfettered immigration (not necessarily in that order).

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Record Global Cooling Over The Last Eight Months Posted on November 13, 2016 by tonyheller Over the last eight months, global temperatures over land have cooled a record 1.2 C. November is seeing record cold in Russia and South Australia, so we should see the record cooling trend continue.

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Earlier today we showed that, contrary to USA Today's claims that the anti-Trump protests across the nation are "spontaneous, involving people from all walks of life", according to Wikileaks documents at least two of the people profiled by USA Today have a history of being professional agitators for the Democratic party, whose task is to stir up popular protests and - in extreme cases - unleash rioting, such as the following clip showing the latest day of violent protests in Portland revealed.

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“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over. If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts, or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office.” -- Leonardo DiCaprio

Science is not based upon 'consensus'; science is based upon facts. The facts prove there is climate change and there has always been climate change on planet Earth. The real scientific question is, is it caused by humans putting carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere (anthropogenic) by burning fossils fuels. The answer is no.

CO₂ is not a pollutant, poison nor green-house gas. CO₂ is the essential building block of all carbon-based life forms on Earth for trees, plants, animals and humans. The more CO₂ in the atmosphere the more carbon-based life forms flourish. Why did the dinosaurs grow to such gigantic proportions? Because of the high levels of CO₂ (plus the real greenhouse gas: humidity, in the form of water vapour in the air) in the atmosphere during the Jurassic Period. The increased CO₂ at that time also provided the enormous plants for all life to feed upon. These giant plants are now mined from coal-seems to harvest -- by burning said coal -- the vast amounts of CO₂ they ingested to grow and provide food for animals to thrive. These composted plants also provide us today with vast amounts of fossil fuel which they originally ingested from the atmosphere. By burning these former plants, humans are simply releasing the CO₂ -- which made them what they are -- back into the atmosphere from whence it came.

Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 250 million years ago knew a world with five times more carbon dioxide than is present on Earth today, researchers say, and new techniques for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide on prehistoric Earth may help scientists predict how Earth's climate may change in the future. During the Jurassic Period, dinosaurs — ranging from the plant-eating Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus to the meat-craving Ceratosaurus and Megalosaurus — ruled the world. During this time, the Earth's interior was not standing still; rather, the supercontinent Pangaea had started to split into two smaller landmasses, called Laurasia and Gondwana. The scientists calculated how all the volcanic CO₂ emissions at the time would have added up. Because there was also less CO₂ being removed from the atmosphere by vegetation and by weathering rocks than today, total atmosphericCO₂ levels were probably five times higher than at the present (2000 ppm), the researchers said.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, something that might finally explain Al Gore’s behavior – too much time spent indoors and in auditoriums giving pitches about the dangers of CO2. One wonders though what the Navy submarine service has to say about this new research:

"We try to keep CO2 levels in our U.S. Navy submarines no higher than 8,000 parts per million, about 20 time current atmospheric levels. Few adverse effects are observed at even higher levels." – Senate testimony of Dr. William Happer

This is backed up by the publication from the National Academies of Science Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants which documents effects of CO₂ at much much higher levels than the medical study, and shows regular safe exposure at these levels. Data collected on nine nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines indicate an average CO₂ concentration of 3,500 ppm with a range of 0-10,600 ppm, and data collected on 10 nuclear-powered attack submarines indicate an average CO₂ concentration of 4,100 ppm with a range of 300-11,300 ppm (Hagar 2003). – page 46. The US Navy shows no concern at the values of 600-2500 ppm of this medical study from LBNL.

I figure if the Navy thinks it is safe for men who have their finger on the nuclear weapons keys, then that is good enough for me.

Therefore: Do I believe in climate change?

Yes.

Do I believe in anthropogenic climate change?

 No.

The very fact that the only solution to this perceived problem by governments it to take money out of our pockets and put into theirs in the form of a tax-on-carbon should be a bit of give-away to even the most naive among us.

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Friday we walked 4200m (2½ miles) around Cedar Hill Golf Course under sunny skies.

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To: Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey ago@state.ma.us

Heaven and Earth, global warming, the missing science, by Ian Plimer.

Page 292 Chapter 6, Water

Rather than CO2 it is water that drives climate.

Question: Do human emissions (anthropogenic) of CO2 create sea level rise? Answer: no

Question: Will the seas become acid? Answer: no.

Question: Does sea level rise kill coral atolls? Answer: no.

Question: Are humans forcing changes to ocean currents? Answer: no.

Sea level changes over 600 meters have occurred in the past. Sea level fall kills coral reefs. Not only does sea level rise and fall, the land level rises and falls, the volume of the ocean basins changes and the ocean basins change in shape and depth. Gravity also changes sea level.

Some parts of the world are sinking for example Eastern England and the Netherlands; others are rising e.g., Scandinavia and Scotland, and others are not changing e.g., Northwest Alaska. These combined sea, land and ocean basin changes make accurate measurements of the sea level change very difficult.

Sea levels have been rising since the last glaciation ended and reached a maximum 6000 years ago. There has been no noted acceleration of sea level rise amid the period of industrialization.

If humans burned all of the fossil fuels on Earth, atmospheric CO2 content would not even double. A very slight change in any one of a number of natural systems would swamp any CO2 additions by humans (anthropogenic) to the atmosphere.

The surface of the Earth is more than 70% water, evaporation is the regulator of global climate. Evaporation and increase in exchange of latent heat between the ocean and atmosphere increase nearly exponentially with the surface temperature of water. Increased exchange of latent heat energy for a very small temperature rise (3ºC.) is more than enough to offset a doubling of atmospheric CO2.

The oceans and the atmosphere are nonlinear, chaotic, turbulent systems from bottom to top. We try to understand such systems in incomplete computer models.

Nature does not play computer games.

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Reference Cited:
Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies.

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