Did Biden really think cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline would force Canada to leave the oil in the ground?
20 January 2021
Biden kills Keystone XL permit, again
President-elect Joe Biden formally announced on Wednesday he was revoking a key permit for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the second time a Democratic administration has scuttled the $8 billion project in less than a decade.
Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline sees fortunes shine after KXL’s demise
WINNIPEG/OTTAWA (Reuters) – The expansion of Canada’s government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline assumes greater importance for the oil sector after the cancellation of rival Keystone XL reduced future options to carry crude, potential buyers say.
Trans Mountain Corp, a government corporation, is spending C$12.6 billion ($9.9 billion) to nearly triple capacity to 890,000 barrels per day (bpd), a 14% increase from current total Canadian capacity.
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion reportedly 95% complete
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), Giving Data Meaning (GDM), and the Government of Canada: Natural Resources Canada
Work on Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project is reportedly over 95% complete. When it comes onstream, the expansion will nearly triple the pipeline’s current 300,000 barrels per day (b/d) capacity to move crude oil from oil sands in landlocked Alberta to Canada’s Pacific Coast for export to new customers in Asia or along the U.S. West Coast. Although initially expected to come online early this year, the project could be delayed as much as two years by a recent ruling, according to the project’s owner.
The existing Trans Mountain Pipeline currently offers one avenue for waterborne crude oil exports out of Canada by moving crude oil from Edmonton in Alberta to Burnaby, a port near Vancouver on the coast of British Columbia. The expansion project aims to increase the pipeline’s current capacity by 590,000 b/d, bringing the pipeline to a capacity of 890,000 b/d.
The Canadian government acquired the pipeline from Kinder Morgan for CA $4.5 billion in 2018 and formed the Trans Mountain Corporation (TMC) to oversee and manage the pipeline and the expansion project. The pipeline expansion, which consists of added pipeline capacity that generally runs along a similar route to the current pipeline, has faced several legal challenges from environmental activists and Canadian First Nations groups.
Data source: Canada Energy Regulator, Canada’s Energy Future
Canada’s crude oil production increased steadily for most of the last 13 years. Canada’s average annual production of crude oil and condensate rose nearly 2.0 million b/d between 2009 to 2019. In 2020, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic decreased crude oil production as crude oil prices declined significantly. Canada’s production has since resumed its growth trend. Canada’s production exceeded pre-pandemic levels in 2022 when crude oil and condensate production averaged 4.9 million b/d, according to data from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER).
Most new growth in Canada’s crude oil production is concentrated in the landlocked province of Alberta. In 2022, Alberta’s crude oil production accounted for 82.7% of total crude oil production in Canada, up from 76.1% in 2012.
Currently, more crude oil flows from Canada to the United States than to any other country by a wide margin; U.S. imports from Canada have averaged about 3.7 million b/d since 2020, according to our Petroleum Supply Monthly. U.S. crude oil imports from Canada accounted for about 79% of Canada’s total crude oil production during that time. Canada is also the largest source of crude oil imports to the United States, and these imports primarily flow to refineries in the Midwest and the U.S. Gulf Coast.
CER’s refusal on December 5 to grant a variance request to Trans Mountain may delay the project start date. After the decision was issued, Trans Mountain indicated the delay could last as long as two years.
Killing Keystone: Almost as dumb as draining the SPR
Biden may actually have done Canada a favor.
Markets
Canada produces more oil and natural gas than we need to meet energy demand within our country, so the remainder is exported. Currently, almost all of Canada’s oil and natural gas exports go to one customer: the United States.
Diversifying markets for Canada’s oil and natural gas production is vital to ensure Canada receives full value for its natural resources, and to ensure the industry continues to support Canadian jobs, government revenues and contributions to Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP). Energy exports can also establish Canada as a global supplier of responsibly produced energy, providing energy security for nations in need while potentially displacing oil and natural gas supplied by authoritarian regimes.
World demand for crude oil is expected to grow in the coming decades. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) report World Energy Outlook 2022, global oil demand will increase from 94.5 million b/d in 2021 to 102.4 million b/d by 2023, that’s an 8% increase. The combined demand growth from China and India alone is forecast to be 3.1 million b/d.
As a consequence of Biden’s malfeasance, Canadian oil producers will benefit from market diversification. On the other hand, US refiners will be harmed by government-imposed market disruptions.
Making China Great Again
Reuters, 2023 September 19
Canada’s Trans Mountain pipe expansion to disrupt oil flow to US, boost prices
CALGARY, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Canada’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion (TMX), which will nearly triple the flow of crude from Alberta to Canada’s Pacific Coast beginning early next year, will shake up North America’s supply by diverting barrels now mainly delivered to refiners and exporters in the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast.
Its startup could add as much as $2 per barrel to prices paid by U.S. Midwest oil refineries that sit along Canada’s existing main oil-export route. Plants that benefited from discounted oil include those operated by BP (BP.L), Citgo Petroleum, Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) and Koch Industries’ Flint Hills Resources, analysts said.
Some of the Trans Mountain pipeline oil will be delivered to refiners on the US west coast, however refining capacity (PADD 5, green curve) has been declining since 2010.
Trudeau noted that while his government is concerned with climate change, the oilsands would continue to be developed.
“No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil and just leave it in the ground,” he said. “The resource will be developed. Our job is to ensure this is done responsibly, safely and sustainably.”
Virtue signaling that makes no sense is what happens when your emotions rule your brain instead of the intellect. Facts, logic and reasoning play little or no role in decision making.
Also, you make multi-$trillion dollar disasters for the planet and everything on it when emotions substitute for bankable engineering feasibility studies.
Biden cancelled Keystone XL on his first day in office. Why? Well the alternate method for Canadian companies to ship oil to the US is by rail, and rail companies and their unions are large contributors to Biden’s party funding. What he did under direction of his accounting folks makes total sense when you understand the Bidenomics. Canada’s reaction to build a pipeline to supply other world markets also makes sense, maybe not in the Bidenomic plan….
Most actions of Biden and his administration are what an enemy of the United States would inflict upon us.
When it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks; it is very likely a duck.
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case concerning whether former President Donald Trump violated provisions of the Constitution that bar a president from profiting from a foreign government.
The court instructed the lower courts to wipe away previous lower court opinions that went against Trump
‘Wiped away’ , because as he was no longer President , the case was moot
Technicalities
In the suit brought by Congress, the justices simply declined to review the case in October, thus upholding the ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals that members of Congress lacked the legal standing to sue under the Foreign Emoluments Clause. And on January 25, the Supreme Court dismissed the other two cases as moot since Trump was no longer in office.
The Trump corporation rents out hotel rooms and other spaces. They accept customers from all over the world.
Donald Trump was not in charge of the Trump corporation during his time as president, he turned it over to his children, and it’s my understanding that all money received from foreign guests was turned ove to the U.S. Treasury.
Trump did nothing illegal here. Just like with all the other Trrumped up charges against him.
The Trump corporation actually had something to sell. What was the Biden corporation selling? Answer: Access to Joe Biden and favorable decisions from Joe Biden.
“and it’s my understanding that all money received from foreign guests was turned ove to the U.S. Treasury.” Seriously Tom if you can confirm that I will forever hold you in the highest respect…. because…… there is nothing I have ever read or seen about Trump that would lead me to believe he would do this.
“The Trump corporation actually had something to sell. ” The point is you are not allowed to deal with foreign “governments.” It smells bad and leaves you open to corruption. And it is doubly bad when you consider Trump has been howling that Biden has done the same thing. Anyway find that proof and I will be very impressed.
OK that is one way to look at it, if you are a Tumpeteer. The other is that he broke the law… a law designed to stop crooks like him from benefitting from his position and at the same time risking the nations security.
“Most actions of Biden and his administration are what an enemy of the United States would inflict upon us” … and NEVER do to themselves … so they can sell us cheap solar panels, wind turbines and EVs, that will need to be replaced every 15 years.
Actually, an enemy of the US would have a hard time inflicting this kind of damage without the public rising up in righteous anger! But if you put enough cut outs, wrapped in patriotic attire, between the US public and their enemies; enough of them will fall for the ruse to make almost any damage possible!
It is only possible with a highly regimented and controlled media and education system, that blindly regurgitates the talking points and subjects approved by the puppetmasters! Without full compliance the truth can be discovered and shared, and that can NOT be allowed!
A smarter president would occasionally tell his advisers “that sounds like bullshit, you better prove to me what you’re saying is valid before I present it to the American public.” A couple of times and the quality of advice would significantly improve….
In the US 61 percent of Americans agree with the so-called “Climate Change” agenda …
I posted under one of your many previous copies of this assertion that poll results depend on the questions asked.
Looking more closely at your link to the Pew poll (in your reply to “Joseph Zorzin”), I eventually noticed the “How we did this” bar had a “plus sign inside a circle” icon next to it.
Clicking on this opened a box ending with :
“Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology.”
On the Pew webpage, the underlined text is a link to a PDF file with the questions asked (!), along with the results.
You appear to have only looked at the response to question “EN1” of that poll.
Right now, which ONE of the following do you think should be the more important priority for addressing America’s energy supply?
Developing alternative sources, such as wind, solar and hydrogen technology : 67%
Expanding exploration and production of oil, coal and natural gas : 32%
No answer : 1%
You appear to have stopped there.
If you have others that say differently could you post their links?
I don’t need to look for any “others”.
Some other questions, with their responses … from one of your chosen polls … lightly reformatted, with highlighting added by me.
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Question EN2
Thinking about the country’s energy supply, do you think the U.S. should…
Phase out the use of oil, coal and natural gas completely, relying instead on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power only : 31% Use a mix of energy sources including oil, coal and natural gas along with renewable energy sources : 68%
No answer : 1%
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Question EN3
[ Note in Pew PDF file : “ASK IF “USE A MIX” (EN2=2) [N=7,151]” ]
And do you think that …
The country should never stop using oil, coal and natural gas : 52%
The country should eventually stop using oil, coal and natural gas, but we aren’t ready yet : 47%
No answer : 1%
NB : 52% of 68% is just over 35% of “Americans” …
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Question NRGPROB
If the U.S. greatly reduces energy production from fossil fuel sources such as oil, coal and natural gas, and increases energy production from renewable sources such as wind and solar… [h]ow likely do you think it is that this transition would lead to unexpected problems for the country?
Very likely : 34% Somewhat likely : 38%
Not too likely : 23%
Not at all likely : 3%
No answer : 1%
NB (for the mathematically challenged) : 34% + 38% = 72%, or almost three-quarters of “Americans”, think it is “likely or very likely” that trying to rush a transition to renewables “would” (definitely) lead to “problems”.
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“Americans’ views of climate change” are slightly more nuanced than the “narrative” of enthusiastic support for “slashing climate pollution / more action on climate change” that you seem to want people to infer from your posts.
potentially displacing oil and natural gas supplied by authoritarian regimes.
Evidently, the citizens living under authoritarian regimes need to be economically punished for not rising up and evicting their evil masters. In fact, all regimes are authoritarian or they wouldn’t be able to deny their own citizens the ability to trade with whoever they wish, among other restrictions on freedom. In addition, why shouldn’t the abstract products of authoritarian regimes be forbidden? In fact, that has been done. In 2003 fried potatoes became “Freedom Fries” as a response to French opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Patriotic Americans should now quit dining at Chinese restaurants and buffets and no longer purchase Russian salad dressing. It would be interesting to know the history of sales figures for Russian dressing as it relates to relations with that country.
Only authoritarian regimes can forbid abstract products.
As a simple example or two, so called Chinese restaurants, with perhaps one or two exceptions out of how many tens of thousands, are simply a popular method of cooking food and have no connection whatever to the Chinese Communist Party or the Red Army. There is as much rational behavior in attacking them as in attacking 3rd generation Americans walking down the street because of the way you think they look or burning witches because there was a sever thunderstorm yesterday.
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimundo is fervently opposed to the sale of various semi-conductors to China by the US and its allies. But she says nothing about American fast food franchises and coffee shops. The Chinese will be able to steal the secrets of Big Macs and Whoppers and feed those healthy foods to their scrawny population creating a national army capable of dominating the world. Fast foods are what made America great. And to some extent rock & roll.
PS: I may have mentioned this on a previous thread: Joe Biden’s September 2022 speech in front of a red background at Philadelphia’s Liberty Hall is reminiscent of Xi Jinping speaking in front of a red wall of Chinese flags.
Us Canadians are selling that oil overseas to be burnt in other countries kilns, boilers, blast furnaces, and factories, cuz Greenies here don’t like those smokestacks…or jobs…
DEEP OCEAN VOLCANOS CAUSE CONTINUOUS, PERIODIC GLOBAL WARMING BY EL NINOs https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-periodic-global-warming
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EXCERPT
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Explanation by IPCC, Fact Checkers, etc.
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The IPCC, etc., attributes these phenomena to global warming due to CO2 emissions.
The phenomena are broadcast in a scare-mongering manner by the lapdog mass-Media to the kept-ignorant general population, as:
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1) Proof “Net Zero by 2050” is needed, no matter what the $trillions of costs, and
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2) The use of evil fossil fuels should be ended ASAP, to reduce CO2 emissions, no matter what the adverse impact on standards of living of 8 billion people.
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However, the reality is as described above, but “Fact Checkers” do not take note of observations and objective measurements being facts, especially if those facts interfere with/detract from “their established climate science”.
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They prefer to stick to IPCC-approved subjective, computer-model, air temperature predictions, that always read much higher compared to data objectively measured by satellites, and predominately blame climate change on fossil CO2, because “the science is settled”.
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However, they were proven completely wrong, because the volcanic eruptions are clearly linked to a trigger by the moon.
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The Role of Judges: Even worse than “Fact Checkers” are the judges in European countries, who are largely ignorant of science.
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They are including “their truth” in judgments and ignoring causality.
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That is a very disturbing and destructive, far-reaching development, much more difficult to undo (after all, a judgment is forever and final) than a law in a parliament, which can be changed or cancelled.
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Spreading disinformation by judges is not a task for judges, who avoid their responsibility through immunity.
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This becomes extremely dangerous and makes society vulnerable to unresolved discord and instability.
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A Simplified Calculation to Put Matters in Perspective
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This study shows, based on UAH satellite measurements started in 1979, lower-atmosphere temperatures have been increasing, step-by-step, and are pre-dominantly due to El Niños, and their after effects.
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The sun and moon and tectonic plate movement are driving forces of El Niños.
We must adhere to the golden rule of causality of real science: observe, measure and repeat.
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In reality, CO2 does not play the slightest role here.
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The IPCC climate models are based on political pseudo-science and are therefore worthless.
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From Image 7, it can be concluded, a very strong El Niño produces a lower atmosphere temperature jump across the entire Earth of approximately 0.3 C.
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E = K x T^4, where K = 5.670367 x 10^-8 is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant
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Taking the derivative delivers:
dE= 4 x K x T^3 x dT = 4 x 5.670367^-8 x 288^3 x 0.3 = 1.625 W/m2
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If the Earth were to absorb this energy flux as radiation, the Stefan-Boltzmann equation indicates, this corresponds to a radiation effect of 1.625 W/m².
Watt = Joule/second
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That is 829 TW for the total earth surface of 510,100,000 km², or an annual energy production of 26,143 EJ (Exajoules).
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Annual human primary energy production for all uses was estimated at about 557 EJ
For perspective,
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1) The annual human CO2 emissions, plus some other IPCC factors, increased the temperature of the lower atmosphere by 0.5 C , in 45 years, or 0.011 C/y, as objectively measured by satellites. That value includes periodic El Niño warming effects, because they were ongoing during these 45 years!. See Image 7
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2) An El Niño (weak to very strong) occurs, on average, every 3.6 years. See Image 1
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3) A weak to moderate El Nino contributes significantly more warming to the lower atmosphere than 1) the annual human primary energy production and its consumption, plus 2) any atmospheric warming by associated CO2 emissions. See Image 9
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4) A very strong El Niño contributes warming to the lower atmosphere 26143/557 = 47 times greater than the annual human primary energy production and its consumption, plus 2) any atmospheric warming by associated CO2 emissions.
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Conclusion
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The impact of human CO2 emissions from annual primary energy on Earth’s temperature is extremely small.
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It compares to just one of the many active volcanic, submarine hot spots (weak to very strong), estimated at 5,000 in the world, of which the El Niño heat source often is a strong one. See Image 1
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It is completely self-destructive for the Western world to impose restrictions on CO2 emissions that have only a small, not even marginal impact, on world atmospheric temperatures, as accurately measured by satellites
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The human primary energy CO2 emissions are completely insignificant compared to the external thermal influences to which the earth is subjected.
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All politicians and activists have been warned: the earth, moon, sun and celestial bodies will never listen to capricious rules and legislation imposed by them on the earth’s inhabitants.
Total BS El Nino Nut Wacko Conservative Tin Hat Conspiracy Theory Nonsense
Observe El Ninos
Ignore La Ninas
= science fraud
The ENSO cycle is
temperature neutral
in the long term.
If El Ninos caused more than temporary warming, offset by temporary temperature cooling by La Ninas, then PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY there was global cooling from 1940 to 1975 in spite of many El Ninos? The 1940 to 1975 cooling was significant before government bureaucrats later revised it down to near zero.
ENSO cycles happen during periods of global warming and periods of global cooling.
ENSO cycles happen during periods of global warming and periods of global cooling.
Another interpretation is that La Nina is the base state and El Nino represents a phase of dispersing geothermal heat. El Ninos are also characterized by an anomalous increase in the slope and peak of the CO2 ramp-up phase, compared to all other years, suggesting that El Ninos are untypical.
PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY there was global cooling from 1940 to 1975 in spite of many El Ninos?
The obvious explanation would be that it isn’t the frequency of El Ninos, but the amount of energy that they are dissipating.
According to NOAA, the cooler period was from 1946 to 1976. Also from NOAA (select “Past Events” tab), during that period there were 3 El Niño years and 8 La Niña years. Could be a clue!
I’m still waiting for Richard to define his terms on this post which he keeps putting up a variation of every few articles. For example, what does he mean when he says that ENSO cycles are temperature neutral in the ‘long term’ – how long is that? 500 years, a thousand, a million? Without defining his terms of reference he really is blathering on making no sense whatsover.
Sorry, yes. Yeah he does just spout a load of random, vague nonsense then refuses to cite specifics. And this guy has the nerve to run a blog with ‘honest’ in the title! Beggars belief, it really does.
David, I don’t think that he has all the details worked out yet. However, it might be worthwhile to temporarily suspend your disbelief and read what he has to say. A detailed response to what you disagree with will either disprove his hypothesis or allow him to revise it to accommodate your concerns.
It is completely self-destructive for the Western world to impose restrictions on CO2 emissions that have only a small, not even marginal impact, on world atmospheric temperatures, as accurately measured by satellites
Not unlike superstitious primitives sacrificing a virgin to appease Pele and prevent an eruption. It is obviously the thing to do because everyone believes it will have the desired result.
Clyde, nearly every Pacific island volcano studied where VS, Virgin Sacrifice was tried, stopped erupting after a few weeks. So there is a lot of science behind the fact that VS actually WORKS.
Oops, I forgot that statistics isn’t actually science….
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The not so primitive Druids did the same sacrificing in Britain, prior to, and for some time since, the arrival of Romans.
The Romans made it a point to eradicate the Druids, where ever they could find them
“… it is impossible to create a warm water layer under a cold-water layer by means of the air.”
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Maps like this have troubled me for some time. I’m puzzled how very warm pools of water 100-300m below the surface can exist when the warm water is presumably more buoyant than the surrounding cold water. One possible explanation is that the Easterlies have driven cool water over warm surface water and created a metastable inversion. Another possibility is that it was formerly surface water from a hot area, causing evaporation and an increase in salinity, and therefore sinking. However, I think that your hypothesis of heating at depth from submarine vulcanism is not ruled out.
They did! At least $40 million over a few years.
Makes Pelosi blush through her pancake makeup
That is one reason Biden is running, to protect his family, by using all government resources “for as long as it takes”
Biden went to Syracuse University Law School, one of the lowest rated law schools in the US, and he graduated in the bottom half (I am being kind) of his class.
Well there is, apparently, a proud US tradition of electing dumb animals (dogs, cats, goats, a mule and a cow) to mayoral office so it’s only fair that one eventually got into the senate and the white house.
William Howard
January 10, 2024 7:10 am
Buyden is also making Venezuela great again (and Iran) since it is Venezuela production that is imported to replace the Canadian oil of the same grade that our Texas refineries need- Brilliant
The thugs in power will become filthy rich… still be a very third world country.
abolition man
January 10, 2024 7:25 am
David,
Don’t be too hard on Dementia Hitler! He rarely knows what kind of mischief Obama and his cabal are telling him to justify! He just smiles and giggles over the bells and flashing lights when he hits another jackpot in the ChiCom casino! Then it’s time for ice cream and a fresh Depends, while he makes it “rain” for Dr. Jill!
Barack Hussein, and the Organized Crime/Intelligence amalgam that created him, is the real power in the White House; old Joe Bribe’m is just the beard they hide their crimes behind!
Dennis Gerald Sandberg
January 10, 2024 7:44 am
Biden did Canada a big favor cancelling Keystone XL because it forced them to expand Trasmountain which they should have done decades ago. More volume and better prices. Good for Canada.
Biden’s handlers are virtue signaling for “explainable” political reasons.
Dementia Joe is acting out of pure spite: “If Trump was for it, I’m agin’ it!”
That has been a consistent explanation for his anti US behavior on many issues.
His problem is that his base is full
of people that are radically supportive of their particular interests.
For example those that support Hamas over Israel. Or those that block highways over “climate change.”
The only issues that I can think of that he would not lose much of his base acting on is going even more radical in support of abortion and cutting down on the invasion of our southern border. But neither the Chinese or his big corporate diners would find the later acceptable.
As a proud Albertan I feel our province deserves credit for expending massive investment and energy to clean up one of the largest natural surface oil spills in history and turning into a useful product for social development. More pipelines would just allow us to speed up the process and share the bounty with our friends.
My heartfelt thanks to ALL Albertans for their continuing struggle to clean up the massive oil spill! I particular like the shots of the restored forests and grasslands that Dr. Patrick Moore shows in his lectures about the benefits of CO2.
If only Commiefornia would employ the same kind of philosophy and try to stop the numerous oil leaks polluting SoCal beaches by draining the petroleum deposits around the Channel Islands! Maybe our Albertan brethren could teach them how to properly manage forests as well, by thinning and removing dead and diseased trees instead of letting them accumulate until a mega-fire wipes out millions of acres and dollars worth of a great renewable resource: wood! A man can dream, can’t he!?
… more pipelines allow for and encourage the clean-up process.
Good luck to all Albertans (Albertians, Alberters, Albertanians) in their clean-up efforts. Thank you, from here in the NW USA, for doing your part to help our mother earth.
If you start a campaign asking for help, and donations, in your clean-up efforts I will be supportive; I won’t give you money, but I will refer others to your gofundme site and encourage others to donate.
(similar to the dihyrogen oxide issue, I am assuming many campus folks would sympathize, and many would even donate for the common good and the clean-up effort.)
What is absolutely pathetic about the noise of canceling student loan debts is that it can only work for the U.S. Gov.-sponsored loans (like the Pell loans IIRC). The marxo-democrat posturing has no effect on private student loans, which are ~90% of a student’s total debt.
Rud Istvan
January 10, 2024 8:27 am
Just about the only thing Obama got right was his observation:
”Never underestimate Joe’s ability to eff things up.”
The Biden administration closely resembles a Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland screen musical like Strike Up The Band, Babes On Broadway, or Girl Crazy. Inexperienced Mickey and Judy get together and put on a show that becomes a huge success. Sadly, the dim bulbs in the Biden cast aren’t as talented as Mickey and Judy so things don’t work out as well. Rachel Levine, Sam Brinton, Pete Buttigieg and Karine Jean-Pierre won’t get any Golden Globes for this farce, which will hopefully close soon.
I keep thinking it’s a remake of the remake of “The Producers” and there’s a Zero Mostel type and a Gene Wilder type behind the scenes in the Oval office pulling their hair out trying to figure just what will it take to get the US voters and politicians to kick Biden out of office as nothing has worked so far!
Kinder was prescient to sell the pipeline to the Canadian government. From the Financial Post: “The project’s costs have spiraled through the course of construction from an original estimate of $5.4 billion to the most recent estimate of $30.9 billion.” Meanwhile, the Canadian energy regulator is delaying its own government’s pipeline by refusing to allow a slight design change – perhaps by as much as two years. An increase of 500% in the project’s cost is bound to affect the tariffs. Maybe they could get approval by erecting wind turbines along the right-of-way??
Don’t be mean, Bob! Let ‘em have a few pints at least! Just be sure to label them so no one thinks that they are pints of Guinness! We are talking Commiefornia voters, after all!
hiskorr
January 10, 2024 6:37 pm
The US importing oil from Canada will “replace oil imports from (other) authoritarian countries” There, fixed it for you!
My personal “carbon footprint” is increasing significantly.
24’ deep x 30’ wide attached garage is nearly complete. Garage has a 10’ apron covered in front by a gable. Used a 12” steel beam supported by two 4” heavy wall tubing columns to support the beam. Gas heater to be installed Friday.
Coming off the living room at the back of the house the new 12’ x 19’ sunroom is coming along nicely. It will have a separate “mini split ”heating and air conditioning unit.
All contracted work should be done by the end of the month.
Virtue signaling does not have to make any sense.
Just as well really as it never does.
Virtue signaling that makes no sense is what happens when your emotions rule your brain instead of the intellect. Facts, logic and reasoning play little or no role in decision making.
Also, you make multi-$trillion dollar disasters for the planet and everything on it when emotions substitute for bankable engineering feasibility studies.
Nor even save a planet.
Biden cancelled Keystone XL on his first day in office. Why? Well the alternate method for Canadian companies to ship oil to the US is by rail, and rail companies and their unions are large contributors to Biden’s party funding. What he did under direction of his accounting folks makes total sense when you understand the Bidenomics. Canada’s reaction to build a pipeline to supply other world markets also makes sense, maybe not in the Bidenomic plan….
Most actions of Biden and his administration are what an enemy of the United States would inflict upon us.
When it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks; it is very likely a duck.
Yes, just about everything Biden does harms the United States.
The Chicoms paid the Bidens a lot of money. . .
Just once I’d like to see a reappearance of Walter White on behalf of all U.S. citizens saying this version his iconic line to Biden –
“You don’t know who you’re really dealing with, do you Mr. President?
We’re not in IN danger, Joe.
We ARE the danger”
“The Chicoms paid the Bidens a lot of money. . .”
And Trump too, 5.4 million.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/10/23/forbes-estimates-china-paid-trump-at-least-54-million-since-he-took-office-via-mysterious-trump-tower-lease/?sh=61e2a6aced11
What did the Chicoms get for their money?
They got to rent his buildings. But…. that is against the constitution which specifically states presidents are prohibited from taking financial payments or gifts “of any kind whatever” from foreign governments and monarchs unless they obtain consent from Congress.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-received-millions-from-china-and-other-foreign-governments-while-president-report-finds-20240105-p5evay.html
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case concerning whether former President Donald Trump violated provisions of the Constitution that bar a president from profiting from a foreign government.
The court instructed the lower courts to wipe away previous lower court opinions that went against Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/emoluments-supreme-court-donald-trump-case/index.html
Well there you go. I guess when you have 91 charges waiting to be heard, why waste everyones time with one more.
91 charges that give the term “trumped up charges” a whole new meaning hey?
Well the great news is we are going to find out if they do hold any credibility.
Watch and learn.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/12/no-quarter/#more-254715
‘Wiped away’ , because as he was no longer President , the case was moot
Technicalities
The whole basis of the court cases was just technicalities.
So justice was well served if the cases were dismissed because of technicalities.
Q.E.D.
The Trump corporation rents out hotel rooms and other spaces. They accept customers from all over the world.
Donald Trump was not in charge of the Trump corporation during his time as president, he turned it over to his children, and it’s my understanding that all money received from foreign guests was turned ove to the U.S. Treasury.
Trump did nothing illegal here. Just like with all the other Trrumped up charges against him.
The Trump corporation actually had something to sell. What was the Biden corporation selling? Answer: Access to Joe Biden and favorable decisions from Joe Biden.
“and it’s my understanding that all money received from foreign guests was turned ove to the U.S. Treasury.”
Seriously Tom if you can confirm that I will forever hold you in the highest respect…. because…… there is nothing I have ever read or seen about Trump that would lead me to believe he would do this.
“The Trump corporation actually had something to sell. ”
The point is you are not allowed to deal with foreign “governments.” It smells bad and leaves you open to corruption. And it is doubly bad when you consider Trump has been howling that Biden has done the same thing.
Anyway find that proof and I will be very impressed.
Dumbutt, If his TRUST, had not accepted any and ALL requests for rooms, his TRUST would have been guilty of racial discrimination.
Is that what you would have done?
OK that is one way to look at it, if you are a Tumpeteer. The other is that he broke the law… a law designed to stop crooks like him from benefitting from his position and at the same time risking the nations security.
And he is not denying he got the money….
“Most actions of Biden and his administration are what an enemy of the United States would inflict upon us” … and NEVER do to themselves … so they can sell us cheap solar panels, wind turbines and EVs, that will need to be replaced every 15 years.
15 years for some of the stuff. EVs more like 6 or 7.
I wonder if they can be shipped back.
Shipping over when batteries are new….. Dubious
Shipping back with old batteries…… yeah– right !!
Actually, an enemy of the US would have a hard time inflicting this kind of damage without the public rising up in righteous anger! But if you put enough cut outs, wrapped in patriotic attire, between the US public and their enemies; enough of them will fall for the ruse to make almost any damage possible!
It is only possible with a highly regimented and controlled media and education system, that blindly regurgitates the talking points and subjects approved by the puppetmasters! Without full compliance the truth can be discovered and shared, and that can NOT be allowed!
Sixty-one percent of American adults support the climate change agenda. Biden knows how to play to the voters.
If it costs them pennies a day….otherwise, not so much. Try again.
It’s not Biden. He is a clown who says and does what he is told.
A smarter president would occasionally tell his advisers “that sounds like bullshit, you better prove to me what you’re saying is valid before I present it to the American public.” A couple of times and the quality of advice would significantly improve….
It’s déjà vu all over again …
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/06/german-prof-on-german-floods-difference-between-facts-and-political-narratives-is-breathtaking/#comment-3843539
I posted under one of your many previous copies of this assertion that poll results depend on the questions asked.
Looking more closely at your link to the Pew poll (in your reply to “Joseph Zorzin”), I eventually noticed the “How we did this” bar had a “plus sign inside a circle” icon next to it.
Clicking on this opened a box ending with :
“Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology.”
On the Pew webpage, the underlined text is a link to a PDF file with the questions asked (!), along with the results.
You appear to have only looked at the response to question “EN1” of that poll.
You appear to have stopped there.
I don’t need to look for any “others”.
Some other questions, with their responses … from one of your chosen polls … lightly reformatted, with highlighting added by me.
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Question EN2
Thinking about the country’s energy supply, do you think the U.S. should…
Phase out the use of oil, coal and natural gas completely, relying instead on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power only : 31%
Use a mix of energy sources including oil, coal and natural gas along with renewable energy sources : 68%
No answer : 1%
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Question EN3
[ Note in Pew PDF file : “ASK IF “USE A MIX” (EN2=2) [N=7,151]” ]
And do you think that …
The country should never stop using oil, coal and natural gas : 52%
The country should eventually stop using oil, coal and natural gas, but we aren’t ready yet : 47%
No answer : 1%
NB : 52% of 68% is just over 35% of “Americans” …
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Question NRGPROB
If the U.S. greatly reduces energy production from fossil fuel sources such as oil, coal and natural gas, and increases energy production from renewable sources such as wind and solar… [h]ow likely do you think it is that this transition would lead to unexpected problems for the country?
Very likely : 34%
Somewhat likely : 38%
Not too likely : 23%
Not at all likely : 3%
No answer : 1%
NB (for the mathematically challenged) : 34% + 38% = 72%, or almost three-quarters of “Americans”, think it is “likely or very likely” that trying to rush a transition to renewables “would” (definitely) lead to “problems”.
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“Americans’ views of climate change” are slightly more nuanced than the “narrative” of enthusiastic support for “slashing climate pollution / more action on climate change” that you seem to want people to infer from your posts.
NO, they don’t. You are lying. You are a liar.
Why?
Biden, and his administration, must be members of that cop division, famous in the old silents.
Keystone Cops. I loved watching them.
potentially displacing oil and natural gas supplied by authoritarian regimes.
Evidently, the citizens living under authoritarian regimes need to be economically punished for not rising up and evicting their evil masters. In fact, all regimes are authoritarian or they wouldn’t be able to deny their own citizens the ability to trade with whoever they wish, among other restrictions on freedom. In addition, why shouldn’t the abstract products of authoritarian regimes be forbidden? In fact, that has been done. In 2003 fried potatoes became “Freedom Fries” as a response to French opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Patriotic Americans should now quit dining at Chinese restaurants and buffets and no longer purchase Russian salad dressing. It would be interesting to know the history of sales figures for Russian dressing as it relates to relations with that country.
Only authoritarian regimes can forbid abstract products.
As a simple example or two, so called Chinese restaurants, with perhaps one or two exceptions out of how many tens of thousands, are simply a popular method of cooking food and have no connection whatever to the Chinese Communist Party or the Red Army. There is as much rational behavior in attacking them as in attacking 3rd generation Americans walking down the street because of the way you think they look or burning witches because there was a sever thunderstorm yesterday.
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimundo is fervently opposed to the sale of various semi-conductors to China by the US and its allies. But she says nothing about American fast food franchises and coffee shops. The Chinese will be able to steal the secrets of Big Macs and Whoppers and feed those healthy foods to their scrawny population creating a national army capable of dominating the world. Fast foods are what made America great. And to some extent rock & roll.
Thanks, David. Once again your post was educational AND entertaining.
Regards,
Bob
PS: I may have mentioned this on a previous thread: Joe Biden’s September 2022 speech in front of a red background at Philadelphia’s Liberty Hall is reminiscent of Xi Jinping speaking in front of a red wall of Chinese flags.
Regards,
Bob
I see something that roused my curiosity.
On the map of the different PADD’s, it shows Oklahoma as a member of the PADD 2 group, and Arkansas as a member of the PADD 3 group.
It seems that based on location both Oklahoma and Arkansas should be in the same PADD (one, or the other) seeing as how they are next to each other.
I’m guessing the reason is not based on location, so what is the reason for the separation into different PADDs?
Good question. These links sort of answer it…
https://mansfield.energy/2022/11/16/what-is-it-padd-2/
https://mansfield.energy/2022/12/28/what-is-it-padd-3/
Is this pipeline part of Justin Trudeau’s efforts to reduce Canada’s CO2 output?
How’s Net Zero going in Canada?
From 2017…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/03/20/no-country-would-find-173-billion-barrels-of-oil-in-the-ground-and-just-leave-them-there/
Us Canadians are selling that oil overseas to be burnt in other countries kilns, boilers, blast furnaces, and factories, cuz Greenies here don’t like those smokestacks…or jobs…
DEEP OCEAN VOLCANOS CAUSE CONTINUOUS, PERIODIC GLOBAL WARMING BY EL NINOs
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-periodic-global-warming
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EXCERPT
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Explanation by IPCC, Fact Checkers, etc.
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The IPCC, etc., attributes these phenomena to global warming due to CO2 emissions.
The phenomena are broadcast in a scare-mongering manner by the lapdog mass-Media to the kept-ignorant general population, as:
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1) Proof “Net Zero by 2050” is needed, no matter what the $trillions of costs, and
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2) The use of evil fossil fuels should be ended ASAP, to reduce CO2 emissions, no matter what the adverse impact on standards of living of 8 billion people.
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However, the reality is as described above, but “Fact Checkers” do not take note of observations and objective measurements being facts, especially if those facts interfere with/detract from “their established climate science”.
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They prefer to stick to IPCC-approved subjective, computer-model, air temperature predictions, that always read much higher compared to data objectively measured by satellites, and predominately blame climate change on fossil CO2, because “the science is settled”.
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However, they were proven completely wrong, because the volcanic eruptions are clearly linked to a trigger by the moon.
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The Role of Judges: Even worse than “Fact Checkers” are the judges in European countries, who are largely ignorant of science.
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They are including “their truth” in judgments and ignoring causality.
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That is a very disturbing and destructive, far-reaching development, much more difficult to undo (after all, a judgment is forever and final) than a law in a parliament, which can be changed or cancelled.
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Spreading disinformation by judges is not a task for judges, who avoid their responsibility through immunity.
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This becomes extremely dangerous and makes society vulnerable to unresolved discord and instability.
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A Simplified Calculation to Put Matters in Perspective
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This study shows, based on UAH satellite measurements started in 1979, lower-atmosphere temperatures have been increasing, step-by-step, and are pre-dominantly due to El Niños, and their after effects.
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The sun and moon and tectonic plate movement are driving forces of El Niños.
We must adhere to the golden rule of causality of real science: observe, measure and repeat.
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In reality, CO2 does not play the slightest role here.
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The IPCC climate models are based on political pseudo-science and are therefore worthless.
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From Image 7, it can be concluded, a very strong El Niño produces a lower atmosphere temperature jump across the entire Earth of approximately 0.3 C.
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E = K x T^4, where K = 5.670367 x 10^-8 is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant
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Taking the derivative delivers:
dE= 4 x K x T^3 x dT = 4 x 5.670367^-8 x 288^3 x 0.3 = 1.625 W/m2
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If the Earth were to absorb this energy flux as radiation, the Stefan-Boltzmann equation indicates, this corresponds to a radiation effect of 1.625 W/m².
Watt = Joule/second
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That is 829 TW for the total earth surface of 510,100,000 km², or an annual energy production of 26,143 EJ (Exajoules).
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Annual human primary energy production for all uses was estimated at about 557 EJ
For perspective,
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1) The annual human CO2 emissions, plus some other IPCC factors, increased the temperature of the lower atmosphere by 0.5 C , in 45 years, or 0.011 C/y, as objectively measured by satellites. That value includes periodic El Niño warming effects, because they were ongoing during these 45 years!. See Image 7
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2) An El Niño (weak to very strong) occurs, on average, every 3.6 years. See Image 1
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3) A weak to moderate El Nino contributes significantly more warming to the lower atmosphere than 1) the annual human primary energy production and its consumption, plus 2) any atmospheric warming by associated CO2 emissions. See Image 9
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4) A very strong El Niño contributes warming to the lower atmosphere 26143/557 = 47 times greater than the annual human primary energy production and its consumption, plus 2) any atmospheric warming by associated CO2 emissions.
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Conclusion
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The impact of human CO2 emissions from annual primary energy on Earth’s temperature is extremely small.
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It compares to just one of the many active volcanic, submarine hot spots (weak to very strong), estimated at 5,000 in the world, of which the El Niño heat source often is a strong one. See Image 1
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It is completely self-destructive for the Western world to impose restrictions on CO2 emissions that have only a small, not even marginal impact, on world atmospheric temperatures, as accurately measured by satellites
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The human primary energy CO2 emissions are completely insignificant compared to the external thermal influences to which the earth is subjected.
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All politicians and activists have been warned: the earth, moon, sun and celestial bodies will never listen to capricious rules and legislation imposed by them on the earth’s inhabitants.
Total BS El Nino Nut Wacko Conservative Tin Hat Conspiracy Theory Nonsense
Observe El Ninos
Ignore La Ninas
= science fraud
The ENSO cycle is
temperature neutral
in the long term.
If El Ninos caused more than temporary warming, offset by temporary temperature cooling by La Ninas, then PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY there was global cooling from 1940 to 1975 in spite of many El Ninos? The 1940 to 1975 cooling was significant before government bureaucrats later revised it down to near zero.
ENSO cycles happen during periods of global warming and periods of global cooling.
Another interpretation is that La Nina is the base state and El Nino represents a phase of dispersing geothermal heat. El Ninos are also characterized by an anomalous increase in the slope and peak of the CO2 ramp-up phase, compared to all other years, suggesting that El Ninos are untypical.
The obvious explanation would be that it isn’t the frequency of El Ninos, but the amount of energy that they are dissipating.
“Total BS El Nino Nut Wacko Conservative Tin Hat Conspiracy Theory Nonsense”
No need to title your comments, dickie !
“Not every El Niño has enough energy to cause a permanently, measurable, lower-atmosphere temperature increase.”
Only a complete fool thinks all El Ninos act the same..
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Don’t be that fool, dickie !
“PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY there was global cooling from 1940 to 1975 in spite of many El Ninos?”
Because, ‘in the mid term’ (25 years or so), they may not be temperature neutral.
According to NOAA, the cooler period was from 1946 to 1976. Also from NOAA (select “Past Events” tab), during that period there were 3 El Niño years and 8 La Niña years. Could be a clue!
Hi Dave,
What are your comments. Take your time!
I’m still waiting for Richard to define his terms on this post which he keeps putting up a variation of every few articles. For example, what does he mean when he says that ENSO cycles are temperature neutral in the ‘long term’ – how long is that? 500 years, a thousand, a million? Without defining his terms of reference he really is blathering on making no sense whatsover.
I’m assuming you are referring to richard Greene.
I’m still waiting for his definition of ‘blowhard’.
Sorry, yes. Yeah he does just spout a load of random, vague nonsense then refuses to cite specifics. And this guy has the nerve to run a blog with ‘honest’ in the title! Beggars belief, it really does.
“I’m still waiting for his definition of ‘blowhard’.”
I don’t know if he has enough mirrors…
David, I don’t think that he has all the details worked out yet. However, it might be worthwhile to temporarily suspend your disbelief and read what he has to say. A detailed response to what you disagree with will either disprove his hypothesis or allow him to revise it to accommodate your concerns.
I generally use “The Dude” meme for comments that are totally irrelevant to the post. I also have this one…
“The Dude” seemed more appropriate than “John C. Reilly”.
Not unlike superstitious primitives sacrificing a virgin to appease Pele and prevent an eruption. It is obviously the thing to do because everyone believes it will have the desired result.
Clyde, nearly every Pacific island volcano studied where VS, Virgin Sacrifice was tried, stopped erupting after a few weeks. So there is a lot of science behind the fact that VS actually WORKS.
Oops, I forgot that statistics isn’t actually science….
/s
The not so primitive Druids did the same sacrificing in Britain, prior to, and for some time since, the arrival of Romans.
The Romans made it a point to eradicate the Druids, where ever they could find them
“… it is impossible to create a warm water layer under a cold-water layer by means of the air.”
Maps like this have troubled me for some time. I’m puzzled how very warm pools of water 100-300m below the surface can exist when the warm water is presumably more buoyant than the surrounding cold water. One possible explanation is that the Easterlies have driven cool water over warm surface water and created a metastable inversion. Another possibility is that it was formerly surface water from a hot area, causing evaporation and an increase in salinity, and therefore sinking. However, I think that your hypothesis of heating at depth from submarine vulcanism is not ruled out.
A long video, but worth watching:
Thank you. It was interesting, although I watched most of it at 1.25X speed. Being a geologist, there wasn’t a lot that was new to me.
Biden: Make China Great Again
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Biden? Try the Democrats. Biden is a mere shadow of his former smart aleck self. The “Blank Looks Matter” caption above illustrates the point.
Biden was never the sharpest knife in the drawer.
The Keystone XL extension was blocked since it was proposed. Only 8% completed under Trump
What’s good for China is also good for the Jumpin’ Joe Bribe’em Grifters Crime Family
And The Big Guy gets 10%
I was just about to make a similar point. It got cancelled because no-one set aside 10% for the Big Guy.
Has anyone ever talked to someone that actually set 10% aside for the “big guy”? I’m curious if they really got their money’s worth.
They did! At least $40 million over a few years.
Makes Pelosi blush through her pancake makeup
That is one reason Biden is running, to protect his family, by using all government resources “for as long as it takes”
Biden went to Syracuse University Law School, one of the lowest rated law schools in the US, and he graduated in the bottom half (I am being kind) of his class.
Trump said recently that Ted Kennedy told him that Biden was the “dumbest senator”.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/09/exclusive-donald-trump-recounts-how-ted-kennedy-once-told-him-joe-biden-dumbest-senator/
Likely the smartest thing Ted K. ever said, or maybe the only smart thing.
Well there is, apparently, a proud US tradition of electing dumb animals (dogs, cats, goats, a mule and a cow) to mayoral office so it’s only fair that one eventually got into the senate and the white house.
Buyden is also making Venezuela great again (and Iran) since it is Venezuela production that is imported to replace the Canadian oil of the same grade that our Texas refineries need- Brilliant
Venezuela does need that help. ! 😉
The thugs in power will become filthy rich… still be a very third world country.
David,
Don’t be too hard on Dementia Hitler! He rarely knows what kind of mischief Obama and his cabal are telling him to justify! He just smiles and giggles over the bells and flashing lights when he hits another jackpot in the ChiCom casino! Then it’s time for ice cream and a fresh Depends, while he makes it “rain” for Dr. Jill!
Barack Hussein, and the Organized Crime/Intelligence amalgam that created him, is the real power in the White House; old Joe Bribe’m is just the beard they hide their crimes behind!
Biden did Canada a big favor cancelling Keystone XL because it forced them to expand Trasmountain which they should have done decades ago. More volume and better prices. Good for Canada.
It was always good for Canada, they were always going to sell the oil to China.
Biden’s handlers are virtue signaling for “explainable” political reasons.
Dementia Joe is acting out of pure spite: “If Trump was for it, I’m agin’ it!”
That has been a consistent explanation for his anti US behavior on many issues.
Often followed by Creepy Joe reversing himself as an attempt to boost his historically low approval polling numbers.
His problem is that his base is full
of people that are radically supportive of their particular interests.
For example those that support Hamas over Israel. Or those that block highways over “climate change.”
The only issues that I can think of that he would not lose much of his base acting on is going even more radical in support of abortion and cutting down on the invasion of our southern border. But neither the Chinese or his big corporate diners would find the later acceptable.
As a proud Albertan I feel our province deserves credit for expending massive investment and energy to clean up one of the largest natural surface oil spills in history and turning into a useful product for social development. More pipelines would just allow us to speed up the process and share the bounty with our friends.
My heartfelt thanks to ALL Albertans for their continuing struggle to clean up the massive oil spill! I particular like the shots of the restored forests and grasslands that Dr. Patrick Moore shows in his lectures about the benefits of CO2.
If only Commiefornia would employ the same kind of philosophy and try to stop the numerous oil leaks polluting SoCal beaches by draining the petroleum deposits around the Channel Islands! Maybe our Albertan brethren could teach them how to properly manage forests as well, by thinning and removing dead and diseased trees instead of letting them accumulate until a mega-fire wipes out millions of acres and dollars worth of a great renewable resource: wood! A man can dream, can’t he!?
“to speed up the process“
No need to do that. The long term is fine because the “useful product”
will still be bringing wealth to the region long after I have checked out.
… more pipelines allow for and encourage the clean-up process.
Good luck to all Albertans (Albertians, Alberters, Albertanians) in their clean-up efforts. Thank you, from here in the NW USA, for doing your part to help our mother earth.
If you start a campaign asking for help, and donations, in your clean-up efforts I will be supportive; I won’t give you money, but I will refer others to your gofundme site and encourage others to donate.
(similar to the dihyrogen oxide issue, I am assuming many campus folks would sympathize, and many would even donate for the common good and the clean-up effort.)
It’s all about playing dishonest politics
You’re only saying that because it is true!
What is absolutely pathetic about the noise of canceling student loan debts is that it can only work for the U.S. Gov.-sponsored loans (like the Pell loans IIRC). The marxo-democrat posturing has no effect on private student loans, which are ~90% of a student’s total debt.
Just about the only thing Obama got right was his observation:
”Never underestimate Joe’s ability to eff things up.”
The Biden administration closely resembles a Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland screen musical like Strike Up The Band, Babes On Broadway, or Girl Crazy. Inexperienced Mickey and Judy get together and put on a show that becomes a huge success. Sadly, the dim bulbs in the Biden cast aren’t as talented as Mickey and Judy so things don’t work out as well. Rachel Levine, Sam Brinton, Pete Buttigieg and Karine Jean-Pierre won’t get any Golden Globes for this farce, which will hopefully close soon.
I keep thinking it’s a remake of the remake of “The Producers” and there’s a Zero Mostel type and a Gene Wilder type behind the scenes in the Oval office pulling their hair out trying to figure just what will it take to get the US voters and politicians to kick Biden out of office as nothing has worked so far!
Search Google Earth for: oil terminal, burnaby, bc
There are several.
Also, see how oil gets to the Puget Sound region:
Trans Mountain – Trans Mountain’s Puget Sound Pipeline: Shipping…
Kinder was prescient to sell the pipeline to the Canadian government. From the Financial Post: “The project’s costs have spiraled through the course of construction from an original estimate of $5.4 billion to the most recent estimate of $30.9 billion.” Meanwhile, the Canadian energy regulator is delaying its own government’s pipeline by refusing to allow a slight design change – perhaps by as much as two years. An increase of 500% in the project’s cost is bound to affect the tariffs. Maybe they could get approval by erecting wind turbines along the right-of-way??
I’m just wondering how many holes the activist idjits will drill into the pipes before they get installed?
The government needs to get out of the energy production business. They foul up everything they lay their hands on.
One more thing not one drop of that oil should be allowed in California.
Don’t be mean, Bob! Let ‘em have a few pints at least! Just be sure to label them so no one thinks that they are pints of Guinness! We are talking Commiefornia voters, after all!
The US importing oil from Canada will “replace oil imports from (other) authoritarian countries” There, fixed it for you!
My personal “carbon footprint” is increasing significantly.
24’ deep x 30’ wide attached garage is nearly complete. Garage has a 10’ apron covered in front by a gable. Used a 12” steel beam supported by two 4” heavy wall tubing columns to support the beam. Gas heater to be installed Friday.
Coming off the living room at the back of the house the new 12’ x 19’ sunroom is coming along nicely. It will have a separate “mini split ”heating and air conditioning unit.
All contracted work should be done by the end of the month.