Unacceptable Sig Larson

Free people don’t let government have authority over their lives. Don’t compromise with wrong.

[Oaks And Lions 🏴���󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @oaksandlions]

Today is Lammas, England's forgotten harvest festival.

Celebrated on 1 August for well over 1,000 years, Lammas was one of the most important days in the English calendar.

First recorded in the 9th century, Lammas takes its name from the Old English hlāf-maesse, meaning "Loaf Mass."

Farmers baked the first loaf from the new wheat harvest and took it to church to be blessed in thanksgiving.

For our ancestors, this wasn't simply a religious ceremony. It was a celebration of survival.

A successful harvest meant bread on the table through the coming winter. A poor harvest could bring hunger and hardship. Few days carried greater importance.

In medieval England, Lammas also marked the end of haymaking, the opening of the grain harvest, and in many places the start of harvest fairs, games and community gatherings.

Although Christmas and Easter remain widely celebrated, Lammas has largely disappeared from everyday life, despite being one of England's oldest seasonal traditions.

In a world where abundance is often taken for granted, Lammas reminds us to be thankful for what we have.

Follow @oaksandlions for more on England’s history and heritage.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

It must now be seen as the greatest blunder in human history. And it was all done on purpose. No public relations campaign can change that.

Yes, the world is still a bit warmer. CO₂ is still a bit higher. But NASA satellites have revealed the recent rise in carbon dioxide has sparked the greatest expansion of green leaf area 'in recorded history'.

The entire human story has been about our dogged survival in a harsh, dangerous world, thanks mainly to sheer luck. Our species is thriving in today's warmer Holocene interglacial cycle, which has lasted 11,700 years. This covers the entire rise of all human civilisation, every single empire, every invention and everything that makes us modern, from razor blades to spaceships.

The observable data throughout geological history suggests that today's cooler temperatures lie mostly within natural variability. The natural world invented the miracles of multicellular life and DNA on its own. It doesn't need human intervention. The Earth will run its course despite our interference.

However, many are unaware that we still are living in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, beginning 33.9 million years ago when permanent ice sheets formed on Antarctica. Ice ages may be rare, but we are in one, whether we like it or not. Earth has seen just five major ice ages in its long history - the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo, and today's Late Cenozoic Ice Age.

Today's global average temperature is estimated at 15°C, but this is not hot in geological terms. Our modern era sits deep within a major cold trough. It is up to 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average range of 18–26°C.

It was the Industrial Revolution though, that kicked off the modern world, beginning around 1750. And the discovery of coal, oil and gas created the most successful period in human history. We have medical miracles and the astonishing technology to prove it.

CO₂ levels over 250 years from 290 ppm to 426 ppm have created a massive spreading green canopy. Agriculture has exploded beyond anything ever seen before. It has not caused a global disaster.

And Net Zero, by the way, has never been fully explained - other than swapping promissory notes at annual summits worth trillions of dollars. There is every likelihood it will not change a thing. It's nothing more than a throw of the dice. Yet the error strewn 'transition' to wind-solar is expected to cost $275 trillion - equal to 2.5 times global GDP.

This could have built up to 27,500 nuclear power stations worldwide, ending any doubts about pure energy.

Global temperatures have risen by around 1.4°C since the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This came after the end of the 500-year Little Ice Age in Europe, the coldest spell in 10,000 years. Cold usually brings famine, misery and an early death.

Until the past few decades, most people only learned about CO₂ in biology classes at school. It is where we discovered this trace gas is the building block of complex life, the engine of photosynthesis and the oxygen we breathe.

The CO₂ miracle isn't taking a bank holiday.

[Unacceptable Sig Larson @SigLarson]

@CTVCalgary He should be worried about his own decaying state.

[Be Part of the Energy @TransparentEner]

MACLEOD: The case for voting ‘Yes’ in Alberta referendum — even if you’re undecided

Undecided Albertans do not have to become lifelong independence supporters. They need only understand that OTTAWA WILL NOT NEGOTIATE SERIOUSLY UNTIL ALBERTA GIVES IT A REASON TO DO SO. It will not put Ottawa at the negotiating table the next morning. But it does start the only credible process that will eventually get them there.

On October 19, mark Option 2.
#AlbertaIndependence
#ForeverCanadian
#VoteToStay
#Alberta

https://t.co/i14TBFcfCR

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

There are two types of people who love socialism.

1. Economic illiterates fueled by envy.
2. People who understand how easy it is to manipulate and control economic illiterates fueled by envy.

[Unacceptable Sig Larson @SigLarson]

@jbeggs252 Under Harper, Canada was at par or doing better than the US.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

The world has spent $7 trillion on wind and solar. That global fleet produces an average of around 630 GW.

The same $7 trillion could have built roughly 1,400 modern nuclear reactors, producing around 1,400 GW on average -- so more than twice the power.

Wind and solar generally last around 20 years (a lot less by some estimates), whereas nuclear plants can operate for 80 years or more.

Over 80 years, wind and solar must be built four times -- a cost of $28 trillion to maintain 630 gigawatts.

The same $28 trillion spent on nuclear would deliver roughly 5,600 gigawatts -- nearly nine times the power.

Also, nuclear produces this regardless of the weather, whereas wind and solar require 24-7 backup (usually gas, not included in these calculations).

[Unacceptable Sig Larson @SigLarson]

@ABDanielleSmith This process screws the married women of this province.

[Unacceptable Sig Larson @SigLarson]

@muffins135 @itspawsibl @Tony__Clark @TheBlueGem3 @cspotweet Bring your government marriage certificate.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

If you have a son or daughter who's starting to think that socialism is the answer to our problems, I want you to try something and report back:

Next time you talk, don't argue. Sit down, ask these questions, and just listen:

- When you say "socialism," do you mean that you want the government to pay for a bigger safety net like in Denmark, or that the government owns the means of production? Because those are two very different countries.

- You say the system is rigged. Who rigged it? And who should be handed the power to un-rig it?

- Who sets the price of bread? If not a single person or corporation, what causes that price to remain steady or go up?

- Can you name a country where the state took ownership of the means of production and the poor got richer?

- When borders open or the walls fall down, anywhere in the world, which direction do people run? Towards the free market system or the socialist system? And before the boundaries fell, which way were the guns pointed?

- Would you rather be poor today, or rich in 1900? By the way, only one of those has antibiotics.

- If you and I make a voluntary trade, and we both walk away happy, who got hurt?

- Someone has to decide what your work is worth. Would you rather it be you and the person paying you, or a bureaucrat with an army who has never met either of you?

Try having this conversation with your kids this week. Don't argue. Only listen. And if you want, call into my radio show and tell me how it went.

[JudyMB @JudyMaxB]

Some people wonder how Alberta will purge our nation of illegal migrants

Stop social assistance completely and they will leave, and others will stop coming

They don’t come here for a better life, they abhor our climate. They come here for the tax money that we work hard for.

Perhaps @ABDanielleSmith should give this a try right now.

[Unacceptable Sig Larson @SigLarson]

@Frosty_Xan @buperac Many countries have St George’s cross.

[Unacceptable Sig Larson @SigLarson]

@haubrich_g @taxpayerDOTcom Wages should be tied to individual median income.

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

pDST proponents will talk about preference and commerce, but I have yet to hear any argument using basic human biology:
1) Our circadian rhythm is greater than 24 hours (about 24.2h)- therefore,
2) We need a resetting influence that tends to shorten it back to 24.0h
3) Light in the AM shortens our circadian rhythm back to 24 hours
4) Light in the PM lengthens our circadian rhythm even more

pDST takes away light precisely at the time of day where we need it to shorten our circadian rhythm and puts it at the time of day where it does the most harm (makes it longer)

No wonder western portions of time-zones have more cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer rates than those on the eastern portion of a time zone where sunlight in the AM is maximized.

[IamChuck @IBCHUCK]

There is a glaring disregard for the corruption, criminality, incompetence, identity politics, subsidized media propaganda that is part and parcel of the @liberal_party government.

They will do anything to shift focus away from that very salient truth.

This interview fails to address this critical aspect.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

B.C. says it deserves an annual royalty because Alberta oil crosses its territory.

Approximately 900,000 import containers travel east through Alberta every year.

A reciprocal formula would be simple:

For every $1 per barrel B.C. charges Alberta oil, Alberta charges B,C, about $900 per container.

Same principle.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

lol This is a crock of crap.

Climate “scientists” cannot get their climate models to produce accurate hindcasts of 20th century global mean surface temperature (GMST) observations without having precursory knowledge of 20th century observations to calibrate them to. That's curve fitting, not science.

These models also run on circular reasoning.

When global climate models (GCMs) are input with the supposedly “established physics” you mentioned, the energy fluxes in and out of the Earth’s atmosphere are not balanced, which causes the models to drift into unrealistic climate states (either too hot or too cold, but usually running too hot).

Rather than doing real science to try figuring out why the best physics we have don't yield correct values, scientists simply assume that fluxes were balanced before the Industrial Revolution. They then adjust any uncertain parameters (e.g., clouds and aerosol) to force energy fluxes to balance. It is then assumed that there are no natural pathways that can cause energy imbalance, so modelers input CO₂ forcing, the climate system warms, and they say, “See!? CO₂ caused the warming.”

While it may prove that there is at least some effects from CO₂, all else being equal, it in no way, shape or form proves that all of the observed warming is due to CO₂. They assumed it was at the outset, then forced their GCMs to produce that result. That's circular logic, not science.

We also know model outputs are just statistical curve fitting because while the GMST response to a forcing has one value, the range of uncertainty in the aerosol contribution to GMST change since 1850 is 1°C. If you take the median of the CMIP6 models shown in Figure 3.8 from IPCC AR6 WG1, the uncertainty is a whopping 125%. If you don’t know that vital piece of information about aerosol forcing, you cannot have any confidence whatsoever in anything else.

Arguing with me about this is not going to go well for you, I'm afraid.

If you need an explainer that isn't so jargon-filled, Dr. Roy Spencer has a good one in the video below from a presentation he gave on March 3, 2021.

[John Shewchuk @_ClimateCraze]

Those who only look back 50 years use deception to spread climate alarmism, while those who study long-term climate change know claims of a climate crisis are fake news.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

The pipeline announcement is being sold as a victory.

But look closer.

Ottawa keeps control. B.C. gets paid. Taxpayers take on debt. Producers face higher costs. Alberta waits for permission.

That is not a victory.

That is a bad deal.

Vote Option 2. Alberta can do better.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

Fun fact: if you were "strong" you wouldn't have pulled liquor off the shelves and removed the choice for your citizens. Strength doesnt react like that.

If you were united as a country: 42%of manufacturers would not be leaving or considering leaving. even though they are 96% protected by free trade. You wouldn't also have an exodus of high income earners, well educated, and the brightest citizens of your country.