Phil1111

Perhaps its just me but i don't see anything wrong with this! Is this a Canadian thing, i.e. overcompensation? By wrong I mean him traveling to a rich country to get vaccinated. He broke no Canadian nor UAE laws. "The head of Canada’s biggest public pension fund abruptly resigned from his post shortly after news broke that he avoided the country's sluggish vaccine rollout by traveling to the United Arab Emirates to get a Covid-19 shot. "Recently, our CEO Mark Machin decided to travel personally to the United Arab Emirates where he arranged to be vaccinated against COVID-19," the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board said in a statement Friday. "After discussions last evening with the Board, Mr. Machin tendered his resignation and it has been accepted."

My thoughts, 1/2 a year and she knows more than the collection of EU, NASA, Chinese and Russian scientists that have all concluded global warming is real. Some of that astronomy.

Topography, traffic volumes and money dictate most road construction contracts. With certain exceptions of course.. Then you factor in environmental issues like rainfall, snow, animal corridors, nearby urban areas, etc. Thats why a lawyer stated “That would be data that would put that cities on notice that it’s a dangerous stretch of roadway,’’ Shouse, who now runs his own law firm, told USA TODAY Sports. “And their failure to take reasonable steps to alleviate that danger, to either redesign the roadway or add a traffic signal, reduce the speed limit, add speed bumps, take various measures to reduce the risk, their failure to do that could potentially subject them to liability.’’ What he forgot to mention is that the speed limit on that road is 45 mph. Now if you're on some sort of crotch rocket with the stickiest widest track tires. Perhaps you can negotiate that road at one sheriff's deputy said he's clocked cars going as fast at 80 mph.. But the laws of physics take president over inattention, stupidity and bravado. As you know those factors can all act to separate a biker from his ride.

Or the transmission line to nowhere. With the Paris agreement back in effect. Perhaps N.D. needs to understand their place in a new reduced emissions world.

Perhaps, but in this case it sure sounds as if the stink of trump and Washington politics.

It sure looks as if he fell asleep, so undue care and attention. The local Sheriff could be waiting for the results of the "black box" results. Tiger was charged a time or two before.

Your incessant scouring of the interwebs for false information never ceases to amaze. "As usual you're wrong. "There is a clear greening trend in boreal and Arctic regions, a result of rising temperatures. For example, Svalbard in the high-Arctic has seen a 30 percent increase in greenness, according to Rama Nemani of NASA’s Ames Research Center, a co-author of the review paper in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. The greening was concurrent with an increase in mean summer temperature from 2.9° to 4.7° Celsius (37.2° to 40.5° Fahrenheit) between 1986 and 2015." The greening arising from increased co2 and warmer temperatures especially in the north has acted to slow global warming.

So a bachelors degree infers a broader range of medical and scientific knowledge than the PhD's that authored those peer reviewed studies. Got it. No wonder so many of your other ideas mesh so closely with the science behind the medicine. Do you have any criticisms against the studies or their authors. Or is this just a ill aimed deflection of attention?

Its time for new moderators who are not so negative.The next thing you'll suggest is that the law of universal gravitation is cancelled. The Daily Beast has learned that investigators have been asking questions in recent days about Trump’s eldest son as they expand their criminal probe into Trump’s business empire. Trump has privately fretted that his enemies will be probing or “suing me for the rest of my life,” Prosecutors just got millions of pages of Trump documents. His taxes are just the beginning. "Vance has enlisted outside experts, including a forensic consulting firm, to help pore over the vast collection of records in search of any improprieties. Vance is pursuing a broad investigation that includes the possible falsifying of business records as well as insurance and tax fraud. "

Brent will be along shortly to say. "He should have armed himself if he wants to walk Gaga's dogs"

You have no understanding of what a placebo is or its effects.It is far beyond positive thinking. A lighter understanding. A deeper understanding.

It seems as if plugging your hybrid into your electrical panel with an inverter would be a good solution as well. I would think auto wreckers would have a high demand for Tesla car batteries from DIYers.

Only in America, In Canada a nothingburger. USA "1" - Canada "0"

Liar! Gov. Pritzker issues disaster proclamation in Illinois after winter storm "Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker has issued a disaster declaration after the Monday, February 15 snow storm covered the state in snow and power outages. The proclamation was made in light of several inches of snow disrupting traffic and causing power outages in several areas across the state, frigid temperatures causing slick conditions and freezing infrastructure, and high wind speeds make the aforementioned problems even worse." Are you not embarrassed and ashamed of lying to your skydiving friends and brothers in these forums? All just to make silly points in a shameful attempt to be "proven right". Your energy dependent neighbor just declared an emergency as well. "Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has stood out as one of the most vocal opponents of Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 project, which is the state’s main source of home heating fuels. Now, however, she’s declared a state of emergency amid a bitter cold snap in her state – and is warning that a spike in energy demand for home heating fuels like propane has put a strain on state-wide distribution. “While I am confident that our state has the energy supply we need to get through these cold winter days, we aren’t taking any chances after what happened in Texas this week,” Whitmer said in a Saturday statement. “All of Michigan’s neighboring states, and the majority of states in the nation, are under some form of federal or state energy emergency declaration.” Under the terms of the order, Michigan will temporarily suspend restrictions on commercial driver hours to ensure propane can be delivered in an expedient manner. In an emailed statement to BNN Bloomberg, Enbridge underscored the importance of Line 5 to the Michigan market, warning the state would face daunting propane shortages if the project was ever shut down." You owe Joe and the moderators here an apology for lying. Personally I don't need one.

"The National Flood Insurance Program, which provides the vast majority of United States flood insurance policies, would have to quadruple premiums on high-risk homes inside floodplains to reflect the risks they already face, according to data issued on Monday by the First Street Foundation, a group of academics and experts that models flood risks. By 2050, First Street projected, increased flooding tied to climate change will require a sevenfold increase."

Demonstrates trouble dealing with complex mental tasks. Like telling the truth. Paying his taxes. Obeying the law. You're right.

Everyone knows 38% right doesn't work in engineering, doesn't work in medicine and doesn't work in finance. But for the GOP 38% right is a home run.

Turn your ear towards mar-a-lago. The screaming, crying, ranting, etc. is just audible.

Here is a good article from Utility Dive a industry media source on energy generation and transmission. Brent need not read it because it's not delivered by a FOX hack. It also deals with the issues in a balanced engineering standpoint. Which tends to use facts rather than "feelings". Power experts cite gas constraints as main cause of ERCOT outages, but system planning questions remain Summarized best by "The fact that this was not wind's fault is not an argument that the wind system as we currently have it would have done better if it were a bigger part of the grid," said Emily Grubert, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech. "It's an argument that we need to be more prepared for emergency situations. It's an argument that we need to think about how we're designing a grid that is probably going to be subjected to more extremes than it has been in the past for climate change reasons, in particular. It's not really a fuel thing. It's a grid design thing."

You have to ask?

Brent likes these results better: "HOUSTON — Randy Calazans is one of the hottest commodities in Texas right now. He’s a plumber....some houses will need major work, and may even have to be re-piped completely; those must be left for the weeks ahead....As of Friday, State Farm had received about 18,900 property claims from customers in Texas, most of them related to frozen and broken water pipes, he said....Before reaching One Call Plumbing, she said, the earliest availability she could find online for a plumber to come was April 22.... Ms. Gochman said. “I still have to do carpet, fix the wall. It’s probably going to be $20,000 to $30,000 all together.” So no household water till April 22nd. and then $20-50K in repairs. Plumbers digging into all the ceilings then gyprockers , then painters, new floors. Yeah Brent would like the social interactions with tradesmen. They are probably conservative.He could while away the hours talking guns and manly type stuff. Or the people facing $16,000 power bills because they chose "wholesale" electrical rates.

I'm sure it does but why would that make me arrogant? When I do a google search I keep getting technical medical thesis, engineering papers about design stuff that I have no interest in. It usually takes me several more searches to get out of the science/technical side of google search results. Now the story quoted above shows why there was such a close link between trump, realtors, property developers and the right wing of the GOP. It illustrates how they can all develop Florida and Texas flood-planes into new subdivisions. Sell it all off with the developers making 100's of millions. The realtors making 7% on it and the taxpayer picking up the tab every 10 years or so to rebuild it all. Otherwise known as a racket.

If there was ever a climate envoy for stupidity and waste of the US taxpayers money its trump. "Last week with a major hurricane bearing down on Houston, President Donald Trump tweeted, “As #HurricaneHarvey intensifies—remember to #PlanAhead.” Sound advice. But just one week prior, Trump signed an executive order overturning an in-progress Obama-era directive intended to help the country prepare for flooding as it becomes more frequent in some places largely due to climate change. The previous administration came up with the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey and caused more than $62 billion in damage. The rule required new housing and infrastructure projects receiving public money to be elevated 2 to 3 feet above their local 100-year flood height—the same standard applied by the Rebuild by Design competition in New York and New Jersey after Sandy. Now that the rule has been revoked, “taxpayer dollars will likely be wasted through investments in projects that could be washed away in the next storm,” said Rachel Cleetus, climate policy manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in a statement. For Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, a partner at New York–based Curtis + Ginsberg Architects who co-chaired a post-Sandy housing task force organized by the AIA New York chapter, this ruling demonstrates a clear regression in flood policy. "It took FEMA years to change the rule to something more intelligent and forward thinking,” Ginsberg says. “And now it is being taken back.”

Its ok we all at SC know already how google and Facebook manipulate him.

Yah beat me to it. Hurricane after hurricane, freeze after freeze flood after: "Hurricane Harvey offers the clearest lesson why Congress should not perpetuate the federal National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which expires at the end of September. The ravages in Houston and elsewhere would be far less if the federal government had not offered massively subsidized flood insurance in high-risk, environmentally perilous locales. But this is the same folly that the feds have perpetuated for almost 50 years. Two years before NFIP was created, the 1966 Presidential Task Force on Federal Flood Control Policy warned that a badly run program “could exacerbate the whole problem of flood losses. For the federal government to subsidize low premium disaster insurance ... would be to invite economic waste of great magnitude.” That sage advice was ignored." 'A recent Pew Charitable Trust study revealed that 1% of the 5 million properties insured have produced almost a third of the damage claims and half the debt." of $25 billion.