Climate change is job 1

[The Green Barbarian]

Queen K posted this link on another thread, but I think it deserves repeating. Climate change is not measured entirely by reviewing past weather reports from various cities.

Yawn. Here's the question you keep ducking. What can Canada do about it????? And actually see a benefit???

[Cactusflower]

^^Again you're confusing climate with weather.

You've got to be kidding. Weather is what we have today. Climate is what we've had in the past. Climate change is how the climate changes over time. If you make a claim, and cannot offer a shred of evidence to back it up, you're in the same camp as a 9/11 Truther.

Please read the links I posted this morning. There's much research to be done on climate change before posting rude, condescending remarks.

[ferri]

Please stay on topic and don't start squabbling.

[Carrs Landing Viking]

The very idea of "man made climate change" is a scam perpetuated by the likes of Gore and Suzuki, to make literally millions off of the truly gullible.

There seems to be no shortage of the gullible that seem to live and breath the nonsense these two scam artists pass off as fact.

[The Green Barbarian]

The very idea of "man made climate change" is a scam perpetuated by the likes of Gore and Suzuki, to make literally millions off of the truly gullible.

There seems to be no shortage of the gullible that seem to live and breath the nonsense these two scam artists pass off as fact.

To me, it's not about whether this hoax is real or not. It's when Castanet posters state that Justin Trudeau and Christie Clark aren't committed to "slowing down man-made climate change" but then won't tell us what Canada can do to slow down this fake climate change. True cowardice.

[The Green Barbarian]

There's much research to be done on climate change before posting rude, condescending remarks.

I agree. And every time some AGW cultist screams the word "denier" at anyone who doesn't buy into every single stupid prediction and every stupid policy dreamed up by doomsaying AGW-believing boneheads to "slow the acceleration" I think the same thing - how rude and condescending these AGW cultists are being. Just horrible people.

[Glacier]

To me, it's not about whether this hoax is real or not. It's when Castanet posters state that Justin Trudeau and Christie Clark aren't committed to "slowing down man-made climate change" but then won't tell us what Canada can do to slow down this fake climate change. True cowardice.

Mathematically and scientifically speaking, we would need to increase the gas tax to something like $6/litre and support Site C, of which the most ardent climate change believers want shut down.They want us to get off fossil fuels (and I agree), but they refuse to accept future clean energy production that's needed to replace gasoline cars with electric ones.

[Cactusflower]

Mathematically and scientifically speaking, we would need to increase the gas tax to something like $6/litre and support Site C, of which the most ardent climate change believers want shut down.They want us to get off fossil fuels (and I agree), but they refuse to accept future clean energy production that's needed to replace gasoline cars with electric ones.

Excuse me, but it's not the climate change 'believers' who are against future clean energy production. We support ALL sources of clean energy, including wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, etc. It's only the rabid partisans who support only that 'one-trick pony', the Site C dam.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 113235.htm (This is for you, GB).

[Cactusflower]

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/212312 ... hwy-closed

How many more extreme weather events must occur before people begin to realize that we must stop relying on fossil fuels to power our vehicles, homes, businesses, etc?

[Glacier]

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/212312/Slides-still-have-hwy-closed

How many more extreme weather events must occur before people begin to realize that we must stop relying on fossil fuels to power our vehicles, homes, businesses, etc?

You are confusing weather and climate. Extremes happen every day. Always have, always will. That's weather. The important question is, are they increasing, and there's no evidence this is the case.

[Glacier]

Excuse me, but it's not the climate change 'believers' who are against future clean energy production. We support ALL sources of clean energy, including wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, etc. It's only the rabid partisans who support only that 'one-trick pony', the Site C dam.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 113235.htm (This is for you, GB).

I notice that you didn't list support for hydro. The fact is, if we are to electrify, we will need LOTS of power, far more than wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal can provide. Those should be part of the picture, but BC is not very windy nor very sunny, and geothermal is still decades away from being a reality. That leaves hydro as the primary clean source for power today; therefore, you do not think climate change is very important to address today. If you did, you would support clean power projects that actually increase our supply in a significant way. Climate change and pollution are important jobs to address, which is why I support Site C and any other clean energy projects on the go.

[lesliepaul]

It appears some people do not understand Geothermal. You do not just throw down some pipe and get "instant cheap heating and cooling"..........I have Geothermal and it is not cheap to put in and add to that IT RUNS ON HYDRO!

[Cactusflower]

It appears some people do not understand Geothermal. You do not just throw down some pipe and get "instant cheap heating and cooling"..........I have Geothermal and it is not cheap to put in and add to that IT RUNS ON HYDRO!

Please read this link. There's a big difference between geothermal energy and geothermal heat pumps.
http://www.geothermalgenius.org/blog/ge ... heat-pumps

[Because_They_Lie]

[Cactusflower]

Excuse me, but it's not the climate change 'believers' who are against future clean energy production. We support ALL sources of clean energy, including wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, etc. It's only the rabid partisans who support only that 'one-trick pony', the Site C dam.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 113235.htm (This is for you, GB).

I notice that you didn't list support for hydro. The fact is, if we are to electrify, we will need LOTS of power, far more than wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal can provide. Those should be part of the picture, but BC is not very windy nor very sunny, and geothermal is still decades away from being a reality. That leaves hydro as the primary clean source for power today; therefore, you do not think climate change is very important to address today. If you did, you would support clean power projects that actually increase our supply in a significant way. Climate change and pollution are important jobs to address, which is why I support Site C and any other clean energy projects on the go.

It's a given that hydro is in B.C.'s renewable energy portfolio. It's been there for more than half a century, but it's time to move on to newer technologies, don't you think?