Patrick Cummins

Retired research scientist with the Gov't of Canada. Avid cyclist & skier. Views expressed are entirely my own.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@sarobertson_ Mr. Carney's statement amounts an emphatic indictment of the immigration policies of his predecessor.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@mtracey "the ideological movements he recommends followers of his movement infiltrate ..." includes communism and Islamic theocracy.

Did he realize that communists would be among the first targets of Islamic theocrats?

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

Israel's Minister of National Security:
"All of Lebanon must burn."
https://t.co/AjvLd8HhAM

[איתמר בן גביר @itamarbengvir]

על כל דמעה של אמא ישראלית, אלף אמהות לבנוניות צריכות לבכות. לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור!

עם כל הכבוד לאמריקאים, ישראל חייבת להבהיר לעולם כולו שדם בנינו וביטחון אזרחנו איננו הפקר. לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור. חובתנו העליונה היא להגן ��ל אזרחי ישראל ועל חיילי צה״ל, והמחויבות הזו קודמת לכל שיקול אחר.

אמרתי לראש הממשלה, גם בישיבות בינינו: על כל דמעה של אמא ישראלית, אלף אימהות לבנוניות צריכות לבכות.

מספיק עם הפינג־פונג. במזרח התיכון לא מנצחים בתגובות מדודות ובהכלה - צריך להשתגע. למחוק. להכריע את הטרור.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@MikeLevin Research into bio-safety and pathogens is inherently dual use. In other words, the knowledge gained can also be applied to develop bio-weapons. It would not be surprising for an adversary like Russia to fear the worst, even if the program was actually benign.

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@vlad_rad @judah47 @environmentca @NWS @pmagn @globalnews @MMadryga @KGordonGlobalBC @awoodx @CHEK_News @BCstormwatch Environment Canada forecast for Victoria is 28 C for Sunday and Monday, decreasing to 24 C on Tuesday.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@xAviation Coincidentally, I flew yesterday on an Air Canada Boeing 787-9 from Frankfurt to Vancouver. Of course, everything went very well.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@ProfessorPape At the heart of it, this is happening because the United States and Israel have divergent national Interests.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@rmanzel843391 @gaurav_kochar As a downwelling Kelvin wave displaces the thermocline downward, warm water normally found closer to the surface is displaced downward where the water is normally colder. This can lead to large positive temperature anomalies at depth without heat input.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@WeatherProf As a result, large apparent temperature anomalies can be generated even with no additional heat input into the ocean, simply from vertical motion of the thermocline. Caution is required to interpret a figure of temperature anomalies plotted against depth.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@WeatherProf The subsurface heat anomaly is very large due, in part, to the downward displacement of the thermocline by a downwelling Kelvin wave. This is b/c water usually found close to the surface appears as a warm anomaly if it’s moved downward to depths where the water is usually colder.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@alexstubb Are you going to stop the war by increasing pressure on Russia? I really don’t think so, but you most assuredly will see ever greater destruction of Ukraine.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@BenMulroney In my view, keeping Canada united is the number one priority of any prime minister.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@uniformcritic Between pitches Clemente, who always hit on the right, takes a practice swing. But it’s from the left side!

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Finland's President Stubb argued: "Yes, it is time to start negotiations with Russia."
* I would like to know why it was not considered a good time to speak with Russia four years ago. Our political class boycotted diplomacy for all these years while hundreds of thousands of young men died, and put us on a path toward nuclear war that we are still on. Anyone who argued for diplomacy was smeared and censored by our radicalised political-media establishment. So why was it considered immoral to speak with the other side then, but not now?

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@ExnerPirot We'll see, but I find it difficult to imagine Carney would act that stupidly. National unity always has to be the first priority of any gov't of Canada. And unity is especially important now for Canada as it faces threats from the US.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@marissenmark This is plainly wrong. There is already now, before the courts, a claim by the Dzawada’enuxw First Nation to take ownership of private property, i.e., fee simple lands, owned by Interfor Corp. and Nature Trust of BC.
https://t.co/hpwSEN9VXX

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@BenNollWeather This is likely a consequence of downward displacement of isopycnal (constant density) surfaces, i.e., warm, near-surface water displaced downwards. If so, then it's not due primarily to heating of ocean waters.

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@leonidragozin It's somewhat surprising that no mention is made of Ukrainian losses in the Kursk oblast.

[Patrick Cummins @PatrickCummins]

@lrozen Disciplined & consistent? You're asking too much.