tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6562077347603020177..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: When Science Speaks Truth (Sort Of) to PowerThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86441060363220274252018-10-07T15:52:57.578-07:002018-10-07T15:52:57.578-07:00Truth is Dead. Anyong
Truth is Dead. Anyong<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-31792914381680362162018-10-05T12:49:47.998-07:002018-10-05T12:49:47.998-07:00Well, now it seems ol’ Canada is the last one to c...Well, now it seems ol’ Canada is the last one to catch on to the new global paradigm, Trump boldly leading.<br /><br /><br />https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-trudeau-stands-alone-as-canada-and-the-world-abandons-green-energy<br /><br />Who knew? MacAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63149608237516030022018-10-04T18:00:22.400-07:002018-10-04T18:00:22.400-07:00PLG - all true, yes. You argue for the guillotine ...<br />PLG - all true, yes. You argue for the guillotine to take down the carbon aristocracy. Schellnhuber put it a bit more eloquently at the 2015 Paris climate summit when he said mankind's only hope of a survivable future hinged on the "induced implosion" of the fossil energy industry. He was arguing for prompt governmental action to end fossil fuel production and consumption.<br /><br />My expectation is that governments will take the next IPCC report, whittle down both the timing and urgency of its recommendations and then lie about accepting the best possible scenario while simply ignoring it.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63377206635594677092018-10-04T17:56:05.056-07:002018-10-04T17:56:05.056-07:00It's as disheartening to accept the reality as...<br />It's as disheartening to accept the reality as it is to realize that there's no truly reformative change on the horizon.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26020386178829265422018-10-04T17:54:36.485-07:002018-10-04T17:54:36.485-07:00
Climate change and government is a bottomless wel...<br />Climate change and government is a bottomless well of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance, Lorne. That is too deeply embedded to hope for some reformative epiphany. We are and shall remain a petro-state.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27483858186020627702018-10-04T16:08:07.056-07:002018-10-04T16:08:07.056-07:00Technologically, as far as I can tell pretty much ...Technologically, as far as I can tell pretty much all the pieces are in place. Cars? Workable. Electricity? Totally there. Cargo transportation? On the cusp for trucking, but we should be using rail anyway, where electric technologies are the best in the first place. So zero emission rail, absolutely do-able. Construction? There's more than one new concrete technology that absorbs CO2 rather than emitting it. Highly energy efficient buildings have been demonstrated and demonstrated and demonstrated, the only obstacle is nobody will insist on them in the zoning. Heating that doesn't use fossil fuels clearly exists, whether simple electrical heating or efficient heat pump stuff.<br />Shipping? Well, nobody seems to be looking into it very much, but I don't see a problem. We used to do zero-emission shipping via wind power for millennia, I'm sure we can come up with something. And batteries for long distance transport are really heavy, but for sea transport that's barely an issue; if anything, heavy batteries at the ship's bottom makes it more seaworthy.<br /><br />Air travel is the only area where I don't see already existing workable technologies. So far we're looking at faking it--making burnable fuel in some sustainable way. But air travel isn't a huge slice of the world's energy budget. Everywhere else, it's not a matter of research, not even a matter of bringing things out of the lab and into mass production: The technologies are there, they're in production, they're proven, they work, often they're the best and cheapest solution.<br /><br />And all we have to do to make them actually happen is bring out the guillotine for the carbon aristocracy.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-37765315770080593432018-10-04T13:31:35.872-07:002018-10-04T13:31:35.872-07:00.. I really don't want to read another Mainstr..... I really don't want to read another Mainstream Media or partisan op ed puff piece 'reporting' political aspirational horse shite about dilbit or LNG. And such crap must reflect reality, not fantasy and rainbow unicorn idiocy.<br /><br />We (Canadians) need to read & hear informed science. No matter how grim, it must reflect reality just like a doctor's appointment and teatment protocol, not focus groped vote gathering fantasy. If an article or speech related to greenhouse gas, ie - bitumin - tar sands or LNG - fracking gets its snout in the public eye, it must include many many concise, coherent admissions re carbon and methane escape. Of course the reality & reportage requires far more comprehensive detailing every time. Hell, fantasy football and hockey pools at least pay attention & deference to 'salary cap', injury lists & free agent salary expectations - but we can't expect the same diligence from elected public servants, political parties or our respective governments ? ? Now there's a scandal..<br /><br />The easily tossed catch phrases suck, big time. We get 'Nation Building' 'Growing The Economy' - Jobs Jobs Jobs - ''Energy Security For Canadians' 'Meeting Paris Agreements' - but that's suck eggs nonsense. Instead we get Environmental destruction, habitat destroyed, species extirpation, fouled fresh waters, unredeemable landscape with token buffalo to con us.. and Question Period kabuki theatre.<br /><br />Canada is 'the last redoubt' - of that I'm convinced. We cannot imagine or support the enormity of environmental migration from the US of A.. much less from the rest of the world's population seeking safety from strife, persecution or rising waters, drought, space, arable land, clean water and air.. yet they will come anyway.. seeking to grow food & livestock, catch fish, find lumber to build<br /><br />Temporary Shelter From The Storm.. and they will be grateful..<br />even if we are beset by rascism, ignorance, failed& derelict governments<br /><br /> the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-21688931837426155112018-10-04T12:58:07.243-07:002018-10-04T12:58:07.243-07:00Meanwhile, Mr. Trudeau talks about the vital impor...Meanwhile, Mr. Trudeau talks about the vital importance of getting our bitumen to market. Sadly, it is a message too many support.Lornehttp://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com