The uselessness of Canada's climate alarmism

[Lokmar]

Trudeau's vehicle transormation plans would require 15.3% more power generation. That is the equivalent of ten mega dams or 13 natural gas power plants.

A few years back, I calculated how many Hoover Dams it would take just to power Californias 3.3 million cars not IF, but WHEN they go all electric. Its about 30 and thats if you are only charging 1.1 million at a given time. Unrealistic? Maybe, but even if its only 1/6th charging, thats 15 and even if its 1/12th, thats 7.5 Hoover Dams. BTW, none of this considers the all electric semi truck mandate which will be way fucking more power.

Where do you even get 3 Hoover Dams worth of power in California when fossil fuels are gone and all the cars AND semi's must be electric?

[formosan]

A few years back, I calculated how many Hoover Dams it would take just to power Californias 3.3 million cars not IF, but WHEN they go all electric. Its about 30 and thats if you are only charging 1.1 million at a given time. Unrealistic? Maybe, but even if its only 1/6th charging, thats 15 and even if its 1/12th, thats 7.5 Hoover Dams. BTW, none of this considers the all electric semi truck mandate which will be way fucking more power.

Where do you even get 3 Hoover Dams worth of power in California when fossil fuels are gone and all the cars AND semi's must be electric?

In my province, we're already being told not to plug in electric cars during peak power usage.

[DKG]

It turns out that "action" on climate change is a bigger existential threat than climate change itself.

Food for thought on climate change

A recent report by the Fraser Institute points out that climate activists who demand governments cut greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural production risk world food security by pushing up the cost of fertilizer and other farming costs.

"It turns out that the impact of cutting emissions harms food production much more than climate change does," the report says.

"Surprisingly, a green, low-carbon world produces less and more expensive food and makes over 50 million more people hungry by mid-century."

This becomes a more pressing issue now, with ardent "net zero" crusader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, at the helm.

The author of the study, Bjorn Lomborg, points out that Canada is the world's fifth-largest food exporter of agricultural goods and the fourth-largest exporter of wheat.

Claims that carbon cuts are a priority because climate change is causing world hunger are alarmist and far from true.

"Over the past century, hunger has dramatically declined. In 1928, the League of Nations estimated that more than two-thirds of humanity lived in a constant state of hunger," the report says.

Since 2008, less than one-tenth of the world's population has gone hungry, although the COVID pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have increased that percentage slightly from 7% to about 9% in 2023.

"Since 1990, the average number of children dying has declined dramatically from 6.5 million to 2.5 million each year. This is an incredible success story," the report says.

Better farming techniques have resulted in the increased production of food at a lower price, the report says.

While the impact of climate change is often depicted as being catastrophic, in reality it will have only a slight impact.

"In reality, it means that things will get much better slightly slower."

We must not buy into net zero folly. Canada must maintain its independence and self-sufficiency both in food and energy.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-food-for-thought-on-climate-change

[JOE]

A few years back, I calculated how many Hoover Dams it would take just to power Californias 3.3 million cars not IF, but WHEN they go all electric. Its about 30 and thats if you are only charging 1.1 million at a given time. Unrealistic? Maybe, but even if its only 1/6th charging, thats 15 and even if its 1/12th, thats 7.5 Hoover Dams. BTW, none of this considers the all electric semi truck mandate which will be way fucking more power.

Where do you even get 3 Hoover Dams worth of power in California when fossil fuels are gone and all the cars AND semi's must be electric?

That's why yer Prez Trump wants to annex Canada Lokmar

Cuz he realizes the US will need all that water which only Canada can supply your country with.

[Thiel]

That's why yer Prez Trump wants to annex Canada Lokmar

Cuz he realizes the US will need all that water which only Canada can supply your country with.

Jo Jo Sweetie, you are as gullible as you are you submissive in bed.

Mr Trump does not want all of Canada and turn the Democrats into a permanent governing party. That would be political suicide.

[Lokmar]

Jo Jo Sweetie, you are as gullible as you are you submissive in bed.

Mr Trump does not want all of Canada and turn the Democrats into a permanent governing party. That would be political suicide.

Message from Thiel, josephine!

[DKG]

This editorial from Postmedia News is correct. If it is anything less than a Tory majority the green fraud will not only not be investigated, it will continue.

The Liberals' $200 billion climate boondoggle

Since coming to power in 2015 the federal Liberals have earmarked more than $200 billion for 150 programs presided over by 13 government departments, ostensibly to address climate change.

The total comes to 202 if you include joint agreements with Canada's provinces and territories.

The results have been a massive failure.

The Liberal government now headed by Prime Minister Mark Carney remains far behind its targets of reducing Canada's industrial greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, and to net zero by 2050.

As of 2022, the latest government data available, emissions were down just 7.1% since 2005 and have gone up in the last two years.

To hit their target, the government would have to reduce current emissions by 251 million tonnes annually in 2030, the equivalent of shutting down emissions from Canada's entire oil and gas sector (216.7 tonnes annually), causing a recession, and still coming up short.

An investigation by auditor general Karen Hogan of the now-disbanded, $1-billion Sustainable Development Technology Fund, aka "the green slush fund," suggests many programs may be rife with fraud.

Others, according to federal environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco, who warns the government is far behind achieving its targets, lack transparency, may be overestimating and/or double-counting emission cuts and basing calculations on outdated computer modelling.

The consumer carbon tax Carney says he has cancelled, was a minor component of the Liberals' climate change agenda even though they claimed it was the most efficient way to reduce emissions.

In fact, in addition to carbon taxes (the Liberals' industrial carbon tax remains in place), the government is handing out massive subsidies to the private sector while simultaneously imposing costly regulations on it.

Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux estimates the cost of subsidies to the auto sector alone to manufacture electric vehicles and batteries at $52.5 billion on 13 major projects – $31.4 billion, or 60%, paid by federal taxpayers and $21.1 billion, or 40%, paid by provincial taxpayers.

That's $6.3 billion more than the announced investments of $46.1 billion the auto sector is contributing to the projects.

This Liberal fiasco cries out for a forensic audit to determine what has gone wrong, one we'll never get if Carney and the Liberals win the looming election.