Climate Steve and Climate Barbie set out for a spring drive in Alberta, only to be caught by a sudden snowstorm with their top down and their EV all out of juice. Climate Barbie has led them astray in their search for an EV charging station, ending up on a remote road with only a massive electrical substation nearby...but no charger. Suddenly Canadian Trucker Bob shows up with a 'honk honk' to come to their aid. He always carries a jerry can of gasoline for the occasional stranded traveler he meets on the road. But Climate Steve rudely dismisses the offer of "dirty fuel" - meanwhile, both he and Climate Barbie are freezing in their light summer clothes. Canadian Trucker Bob offers a mylar survival blanket (which everyone should have in their car!!) and Climate Steve snaps it up, leaving Climate Barbie to shiver in the cold. Climate Barbie has to face the coldly unpleasant truth that 'Canada is warming three times as fast as the rest of the world' isn't quite what it sounds like. Canadian Trucker Bob takes Climate Barbie under his wing and back to his warm truck they go, with a promise of dinner in town. Climate Steve is furious. His cellphone is also dead, so he can't even call AMA for roadside assistance. But Canadian Trucker Bob has a solution for Climate Steve in the form of a unicorn. He always carries one in his truck for times like this. Canadian climate policies is leading all Canadians into an energy disaster - like a cross between a Disney movie and a train wreck. Join Friends of Science Society and help us fight for common sense on climate and energy policies: Join | Friends of Science: https://friendsofscience.org/join.html You can also donate by etransfer: contact@friendsofscience.org or call the office. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWDEndxedOc
Much of climate science discussions today centers on invisible carbon dioxide or faulty climate models. Dr. John D. Harper,FGSA,FGAC, PGeol., former director of the Geological Survey of Canada, explains his preference for reviewing the long-term evidence of climate change in 600 million years of diverse rock formations. He likes to take people to the field, show them the rocks, explain what the evidence means - whether extreme cold times of glaciation, temperate or tropical periods, or the hot 'evaporitization' periods of earth's climate when salt beds and salt flats were formed. These demonstrate dramatic changes in climate long before humans walked the earth. Compared to the short records of climate change that we refer to today in things like the Paris Agreement, The claims that humans can 'stop climate change' or that climate change is human-caused on any large scale seem 'out of context' with the evidence.
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CLINTEL - the Climate Intelligence group of more than 800 international scientists and professionals - have sent a letter to the World Economic Forum to inform them that there is NO Climate Emergency, and that's good news for Greta Thunberg and her followers, many of whom are scared about climate change. Present day climate change turns out to be well within natural variability of the past. Dr. Guus Berkhout, president of CLINTEL, has issued a new plain language climate science essay that shows how computer simulated models have been mistaken for 'reality' and why they are unsuitable for setting climate policy. Some people wonder why the WEF business community and Al Gore claim there is a climate crisis, but the CLINTEL scientists and professionals don't... the answer is found in a Forbes story where Roger Pielke, Jr. reveals that two green billionaires sponsored a very influential climate risk report that used the most extreme and least likely scenario. That document and that thinking became embedded as if fact in science, when it is pure speculation. Dr. Berhout explains things in his own words, here: https://clintel.org/presentation-guus-berkhout-about-the-world-climate-declaration/ and the new climate science essay is here. https://clintel.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Guus-Berkhout_essay-2020_V4-def.pdf
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Friends of Science 6th annual luncheon with Dr. Tim Ball was held on May 21, 2009 at the Metropolitan Conference Centre, Calgary, Alberta.
Dr. Timothy Ball is a former climatology professor of the University of Winnipeg.
This is part 3 of selected portions of his talk.
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Dr. John Harper, former director of the Geological Survey of Canada says that the 600 million year history of climate change shows that climate change is beyond our control. Climate always changes. A warming climate releases CO2 into the atmosphere. Dr. Harper recommends to provide incentives to industry to clean up real pollution.
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Abacus Data just ran a survey asking about carbon pricing and people's perceptions of climate change and climate change leadership. http://abacusdata.ca/can-the-conservatives-win-in-2019-by-running-against-carbon-pricing-its-no-slam-dunk/ Friends of Science Society's Communications Manager, Michelle Stirling, drove south of Calgary to Okotoks, the Big Rock, a sacred symbol to the Blackfoot Nation. She invites people come and see this evidence of climate change, that used to be under 2 miles of ice - a massive glacial erratic weighing 16,500 tons that was pushed all the way south of Calgary from the region of Jasper by a glacier. Can people push it back? A quirky questions meant as food for thought in the climate change human-causation vs nature debate.
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Dr. Patrick Moore discusses the value of FreedomTalk in providing thoughtful considerations of the options for Alberta to take over various roles from the federal government or to separate from Canada. Moore points out that Alberta would be one of 65 other countries that are smaller than Alberta but are part of the UN. Some 34 of these grew out of conflicts or differences that caused the breakup of other countries.
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The Canadian federal government is considering the report of a joint Canada-Alberta environmental review panel that assessed the proposed Teck Resources Frontier Oil Sands project. Robert Lyman, former public servant of 27 years and diplomat for 10 years, has written a new report. The Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, implied in his recent public statements that federal approval might depend on whether the Province of Alberta committed to more aggressive emissions mitigation policies, including tougher targets and dropping the legal opposition to federal carbon dioxide taxes. There have been press leaks suggesting that the federal Cabinet is preparing to deny the Frontier project but “compensate” Alberta in some way. Robert Lyman offers his insights on what constitutes good public policy in the public interest in: https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2020/02/07/the-teck-oil-sands-mine-will-the-public-interest-be-betrayed/
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Award-winning Dutch filmmaker Marijn Poels worked in poverty and conflict countries for nine years, seeing and experiencing first hand the consequences of food insecurity - hunger. So he was alarmed to find that back in the EU, farmers were being driven out of food production by market price manipulations and ever more burdensome regulations...and tempted into 'farming energy' with promises of big money through hosting wind turbines, solar panels and biogas installations. Though farm wind/solar/biogas subsidy policies vary between nations, Poels was critical of the monoculture degradation of land for biogas; the crippling loan burdens for wind/solar that put many farmers out of business; the government lack of attention to the loss of local food security and the crisis of farmer suicides as they lost their centuries-old family farms to debt and land degradation. See the full film THE UNCERTAINTY HAS SETTLED on Vimeo for a nominal rental fee: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theuncertaintyhassettled
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