Marc Saxton

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

There are about 22 million taxpayers in Canada.

A $90 billion high-speed rail train would cost every single taxpayer $4,000. Just build.

And that’s if it doesn’t go over budget.

Before operating subsidies.

The vast majority of those taxpayers would never set foot on it.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

Shock New Evidence Showing No Link Between CO2 and Temperature Over Last Three Million Years Stumps Net Zero Activists | Chris Morrison, Watts Up With That?

The climate science world (‘settled’ division) is in shock following the discovery in ancient ice cores that levels of carbon dioxide remained stable as the world plunged into an ice age around 2.7 million years ago. Levels of CO2 at around 250 parts per million (ppm) were said to be lower than often assumed with just a 20 ppm movement recorded for the following near three million-year period. In addition, no changes in methane levels were seen in the entire period. Massive decreases in temperature with occasional interglacial rises appear to have occurred without troubling ‘greenhouse’ gas levels, and this revelation has caused near panic in activist circles.

The assumed level three million years ago of CO2 was around 400 ppm, a convenient mark that has been used to explain the subsequent ice age and a drop to 250 ppm. Due to the recently published paper, this explanation has become more problematic and natural climate variation is correctly noted to have occurred with the temperature changes. Alas, similar explanations are mostly ignored in discussing today’s climate changes in the interests of promoting the Net Zero fantasy. Some cling desperately to a dominant CO2 role, including one of the authors of the findings published in Nature. The co-author states that the results suggest even greater climate sensitivity to the warming effect of CO2. In short, there is a great deal of applying the laws of physics and chemistry to one era, but failing to extend the same courtesy to another.

The title of the paper, produced by 17 America-based scientists, was enough to set alarm bells ringing in the ‘settled’ science, Net Zero-obsessed community: ‘Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past three million years.’ A related paper examining ocean heat content derived from the ice core record was also published. Carrie Lear, Professor of Past Climates and Earth System Changes at Cardiff University, claimed that the papers “don’t rewrite the role of CO2, they underline how sensitive the climate system is… that is why today’s rapid CO2 rise is so alarming”.

Ah, yes. Even if CO2 movements are minimal, probably within a margin of potential error, they are still responsible for large variations in temperature. The laws of climate science are ‘settled’ – if the trace atmospheric gas CO2 is rising, falling or generally stable, it is almost wholly responsible for large movements in global temperature. Under this rather shaky assumption, humans must stop burning hydrocarbons and return to a neo-Malthusian pre-industrial age.

Study lead author Julia Marks-Peterson noted: “We definitely were a bit surprised. If correct, the findings may suggest that even small changes in greenhouse gas levels could trigger major shifts in climate.” That’s a little bit of a scary thought, she added, possibly with an eye on future grant funding. “May suggest” is doing a lot of the work here, and it may also be suggested that more plausible opinions are available.

Quoted in New Scientist magazine, Tim Naish, Professor of Earth Science at Victoria University in New Zealand, said it was “way too early to thrown the baby out with the bathwater”. Perish the thought that baby should be given its marching orders, ending a science-lite 40-year demonisation of CO2 and related promotion of a hard-Left Net Zero dream.

The latest Nature-published research gives a snapshot from ancient Antarctica ‘blue’ ice drilled in the Allan Hills area. It looks back further in time past the usual 800,000 ice core records. The key finding is that over the last three million years, when sea levels fell and ice periods intensified, the level of the main ‘greenhouse’ gases remained remarkably stable. For the first time, the work has pushed the direct gas measurements back into the late Pliocene era. Over the last three million years moving into the Pleistocene, global temperatures showed a long-term cooling trend of several degrees Celsius, interrupted by increasingly large interglacial oscillations. Interglacial temperature swings, as in the current Holocene, often see temperatures rise by 5°C and more.

Critics seeking to downplay ice core evidence often suggest it is too imprecise to provide a wholly accurate record of gas levels and temperature. But it is accurate enough to give a broad cyclical insight. It remains the source of some of the best data we have on the past climate. It is undoubtedly more accurate than most proxy evidence from millions of years ago. But whatever the evidence used, it is hard to detect any obvious and continuous link between CO2 and temperature across the entire geological record going back 600 million years to the start of abundant life on Earth. Certainly none to justify the political notion that humans control the climate thermostat by burning hydrocarbons.

In fact the evidence is so slim that Les Hatton, Emeritus Professor in Computer Science at Kingston University, was recently able to determine from ice core records that 100-year rises of 1.1°C in the current interglacial, which started 20,000 years ago, have occurred in one in six centuries. Going back 150,000 years, the frequency was around one in six to one in 20 centuries. None of these findings suggest that current warming is either unusual or primarily caused by human activity. Needless to say, none of these findings trouble the headline writers in narrative-addicted mainstream media.

https://t.co/eHh9MHjqHy

[tobi lutke @tobi]

10 billion dollars in tax wasted trying and failing to make software that generates a CSV file with 450k rows in it twice a month.

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

Nobody wants to say this out loud. 👇🇨🇦

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

BEST CLIP HIGHLIGHT of 2hr 30 min Joe Rogan podcast with Pierre Poilievre

This five minute clip is what’s going to change Canada’s future forever

This is single-handedly the most important moment in Canadian politics

CHANGE coming

The only CLIP you need to watch

[Game Notes @GameNotesBud]

The celly game right now is COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL

[Sarah ✱ @disaster_sarah]

“This hour has 22 minutes” (a legendary Canadian sketch comedy show) did a Pitt parody on the Canadian healthcare system.

“Robby” using hand sanitiser every 10 seconds is taking me out 😂😂😂

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Indian Street Food 😂😭

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. Boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. They give you space to think and create. That's when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. Leave some room.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

2021: WFH is the future.

2024: Hybrid is the future.

2026: "come to the office 4 days a week because of culture"

The culture: Everyone with noise cancelling headphones

[Case Bradford @Casebradford]

Laird Hamilton on sunshine, sunscreen, and having a relationship with the sun 🌞

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Dana White on his employees' work schedule: "I don’t care if you f*cking do your work at 9 o’clock this morning or 9 o’clock tonight. If your kid has a school function, practice, or a game, I hope you’re gonna go. That sh*t is very important to me."

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

Can take the kid out of the western league but can’t take the western league out of the kid. Rob Blake got into a fight on the ride to the draft and he’s in the hall of fame just saying

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Here it is Canada 🇨🇦

The END of Mark Carney NET ZERO FANTASY

Canada 🇨🇦 LOST ALL its bargaining CHIPS

We will see a regime change in Canada as Canadians wake up to this reality.

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

KIDS: A gift of truly elite players is the ability to create time and space for their teammates. Showing poise and drawing multiple defenders to you opening up ice for others on your team.

Here are two clips from two of the best: Panarin and Bedard.

Entering the zone, they draw multiple defenders towards them manipulating the play and then find an open player for the goal. This is amazing stuff, great job by two great players!!!

[BlendrNews @BlendrNews]

The Infantilization of Indigenous Culture Has Become a Shield for Corruption

No serious country would funnel billions into reserves year after year while families still live in mouldy homes and boil their water because local leadership can’t keep a treatment plant running.

Yet Canada treats this as normal and untouchable.

And it’s not just budgets. In Richmond, B.C., private property is now being seized because a tribe fished there centuries ago.

That isn’t reconciliation; it’s rewriting property rights on the basis of political mythology.

Which leads to the obvious question no one in Ottawa will touch: if Indigenous reserves are self-governing )and they are) how can Canadians be blamed for the outcomes inside them?

Either these communities govern themselves or they don’t. Authority comes with responsibility.

You can’t demand full autonomy and then deflect all accountability.

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

Heartbreaking 💔

Dear Canada 🇨��� pay attention.

[Juno News @junonewscom]

"Land expropriations are always communist, even when dressed up in First Nations garb."

https://t.co/cZ4LAG2Q4V

[Marc Saxton @Saxton15]

Summer at its best!