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Manchin splits with Biden on Keystone pipeline cancellation, says he'd rather have oil from Canada than Venezuela (msn.com)

The hits just keep on coming Every vaccine maker was asked to make their doses in Canada and all said no: Anand (msn.com) Somehow, this is Harpers fault. Minister’s office knew of concerns about Vance in 2018: sources (msn.com) Another coverup.

I have lost track of all the scandal's this government has faced, I think the Ethics Commissioner still has a ruling in the works set to come out soon. How an opposition can't take down a government with this much baggage just shows how sad politics in Canada is right now.

Now this is funny, Biden pick for unemployment program lost $600M to Nigerian scammers (msn.com)

Trudeau pressed on allegations against former top military commander (msn.com) The Liberals just keep taking body shots, don't know how much longer they can keep standing?

Fox News getting sued now over the voting machine thing. I hadn't heard the 'accusations' until now, the Venezuelans did it, lol. Fox News Faces $2.7 Billion Defamation Case for Election Disinformation (msn.com)

Unexpected ice | Earthdata (nasa.gov)

[PDF] Dependence of Earth's Thermal Radiation on Five Most Abundant Greenhouse Gases. | Semantic Scholar [PDF] Multiple regression analysis of anthropogenic and heliogenic climate drivers, and some cautious forecasts | Semantic Scholar A couple recently published studies both concluding that green house gases have reached saturation levels.

I've never heard of it, is it that offensive? Yeah but it offends the carriers so why should they have to deliver it? Kind of like refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple?

Interesting, does criticizing the Chinese Government = Discrimination against Chinese and Asian Canadians? 2 Canada Post workers in Regina suspended after refusing to deliver Epoch Times (msn.com)

It's time for Trudeau to call up Xi and swap Meng for the two Michaels already. Judge won't relax Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's bail conditions due to flight risk (msn.com)

I actually took a break from all social media, not just here, it was voluntary. Thought maybe that since Biden was in office now we wouldn't have to discuss Trump anymore.

It's all predictions based on models, it's all we have to work with 30 years out and that applies to predictions about how much energy will come from what sources. The only thing that is a fact, is that we will have to find a way to produce 22 TW of energy to replace fossil fuels if you want to get to net zero by 2050. There is no 'context' as Mark puts it.

Sounds reasonable, diesel used to gel in the lines too before they came out with a winter version, not a new problem and I'm sure they will find a fix, just don't be the first in line to get one when they come out

I needed a break from this echo chamber it was starting to mirror the shitshow that is the USA. I said Biden would win and he's going to be even worse for Canada than Trump was. Not a bad thing though, we need to expand our trading partners, hello CANZUK!

Do the math, the numbers are same no matter which site you get them from World energy consumption - Wikipedia

I believe the future is in HFC's but they still don't work when it's too hot or too cold (-30 forget it) and you better not get a spark where it don't belong, remember the Hindemburg!!!!

Until we get a proper roadmap, Net Zero is a goal without a plan - CapX A university consortium of engineers has generated a document entitled ‘Absolute Zero’, describing in very high-level terms what an actually zero emissions UK would look like in 2050, and a very high-level description of what is needed. The changes are so draconian, that no Parliament or electorate would vote for it as a way of stopping climate change 20-50 years ahead. ‘Absolute Zero’ is not a roadmap, as no specific projects are described, only generic requirements such as eliminating aviation and international shipping as a part of the UK’s contribution by 2050. Take batteries. It is estimated that current battery manufacturing capabilities will need to be in the order of 500-700 times bigger than now to support an all-electric global transport system. The materials needed just to allow the UK to transition to all electric transport involve amounts of materials equal to 200% the annual global production of cobalt, 75% of lithium carbonate, 100% of neodymium and 50% of copper. Scaling by a factor of 50 for the world transport, and you see what is now a showstopper. The materials demands just for batteries are beyond known reserves. Would one be prepared to dredge the ocean floor at very large scale for some of the material? Should securing the reserves not be a first priority? At the end of their life these batteries, and the wind and solar power generators, produce more tonnes of hazardous waste per unit of electricity produced than a decommissioned nuclear power plant. How is this factored into the grand plan? Should this problem not be confronted now, and a circular economy developed so that materials are reused as far as possible? Is it economic or not to recycle wind turbine blades? My own attempt in 2008 to raise research funds to begin to construct such a roadmap to 2050 was rejected by my academic peers as wishful thinking and way over my head in complexity: I think this remains the case today, over a quarter of the way now from 2008 to 2050.

Our Energy Needs: World Energy Consumption & Demand | CAPP By 2040, renewable energy sources are expected to supply 8% of total global energy demand That still leaves 22 TW to be replaced. You can factor in hydro and hydrogen but the reality is that our current technology won't get us there. We are going to have to reduce our consumption to about 1/10 of what we use today to make this a reality. That would put us on about the same level as most third world countries. I won't be around come 2050 but I sure feel sorry for those of you who will.

You are right, they don't need the tax revenue for hospitals and free education.

“Elections have consequences”…

In order to get to zero emissions by 2050, which is 10, 568 days from now, you need to replace 22 TW of energy generating capacity or 2.1 GW/day from now until 2050: • One 2.1 gigawatt (GW, 109 watts) nuclear power plant each and every day until 2050, OR • 3000 two-megawatt (MW, 106 watts) wind turbines each and every day until 2050 plus a 2.1 GW nuclear power plant every day and a half until 2050, assuming there’s not one turbine failure for any reason, OR • 96 square miles (250 square kilometres) of solar panels each and every day until 2050 plus a 2.1 GW nuclear power plant every day and a half until 2050, assuming not one of the panels fails or is destroyed by hail or wind. I sincerely hope that everyone can see that any of those alternatives are not just impossible. They are pie-in-the-sky, flying unicorns, bull-goose looney impossible.

Lawlor look good down the stretch last year, he should continue to develop.

Huawei buys their computer chips from the USA, lol.

They have gone crazy down south,