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Americas - City of Windsor, Province of Ontario, Canada
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"Despite having declared a climate emergency and called for a phase-out of natural gas-fired electricity generation, Windsor city council has now endorsed the construction of two new gas plants.
The decision came Monday night after a half-dozen citizen deputations urging the council to reject the new gas power plants. They will exacerbate climate change, increase local pollution levels and end up costing more, the intervenors said."
More than 4999 out of 5000 have not signed! Good for them to say NO to suicide (even before remarkable climate change could occur)...
The petition now has 856,377 signatures.
So sure Dilip, with approx. 8,012,000,000 people on the planet, that means 8,011,000,000 plus or minus haven't signed it.
If that is even a relevance statistic!
I am interested in how it is presented and received at the WEF. Do they treat Greta and friends with the respect they have earned.
Americas - City of Delta, Province of British Columbia, Canada
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"An industrial site in British Columbia has emerged as a battleground over whether governments that have pledged to fight climate change should approve new projects to export liquefied natural gas.
The Tilbury Pacific Marine Jetty project is seeking permission to build a new two-berth dock for Tilbury Island in the Vancouver suburb of Delta.
Environmental groups say pending decisions by cabinet ministers on the Delta jetty proposal will be an important indicator of whether there is a political appetite in Canada for exporting LNG, given the B.C. and federal governments’ commitments to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
Supporters of exports say Canada is positioned to help bolster global supplies of the fuel, especially from the West Coast to Asia, noting that worldwide demand for LNG surged after Russia invaded Ukraine last February."
"We are carnivores! This will have ZERO impact on the environment. Zero carbon? Did these people take basic science w/ simple plant and animal respiration? Let’s start with them eating plants- With zero carbon, how long does this guy think he’ll even have plants?"
Negative Anthropogenic (As opposed to "Natural") Climate Change (NACC)
Carbon Sequestering
Global Forests
"Mapping the World’s Forests: How Green is our Globe?
According to the United Nations (UN), forests cover 31% of the world’s land surface. They absorb roughly 15.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) every year."
Negative Anthropogenic (As opposed to "Natural") Climate Change (NACC)
Carbon Sequestering
Global Forests
"Mapping the World’s Forests: How Green is our Globe?
According to the United Nations (UN), forests cover 31% of the world’s land surface. They absorb roughly 15.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) every year."
Bob,
Check this out, https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/st...45683296690194. then consider that this is the same group of actors promoting disrupting the food supply (over 3000 farms shut down in the Netherlands alone. by the Netherlands' "Young Global Leader "of the WEF Mark Rutte ), all in the name of Net zero. Carbon Think about it, cause a famine now (nothing new, Stalin did this in Ukraine in 1931) just so that we might have an impact on the climate with this nonsensical and useless effort that countries like China wisely will never agree to or pay lip service and then do whatever they want as is the case today.
You continually cite articles from the MSM that is WEF corrupted, I have cited this article about the TNI I would urge you to read it finally.
By the way, doctors in Ontario can't let their patients. https://drtrozzi.org/ know that they are injured by the vaccine or recommend simple ways of treating COVID as an alternative to the vaccine under threat of getting their license pulled. The bottom line is that the Govt wants you dead sooner rather than later! Whether you starve to death, freeze to death, or die of myocarditis or a destroyed immune system from continual injections, they don't care.
The Govt has made Canada a client state of the WEF, and you and I are elderly people who are considered an expense and "useless eaters." The great irony is that so many lefties are pandering to the worst group of psychopathic Elite WEF capitalist Nazi murderers the world has ever known with the scamdemic and so-called anthropogenic climate change
BREAKING: NHS Doctor confirms Health & Social Care Staff were instructed to let Patients die or “euthanize” them to falsely increase the COVID Death Count while Hospitals were EMPTY
I am interested in finding out how many ChessTalker's hold the following view on what I call "The Depopulation Conspiracy Theory":
1. A covert group of persons, who have covert power/influence on national governments, are on a mission to depopulate the Earth.
2. They are ruthless in working to achieve this goal.
3. The sudden appearance of COVID-19, and its variants, and the policies surrounding it, are part of this depopulation effort.
OK CT'ers.......weigh in!
And please give your arguments for or against this theory.
The stats for last week are somewhat consistent with this year so far. They are a bit behind in comparison with 2022. We'll see how the participation goes in 2023.
Climate Change Thread “Responses”
There are lots of climate change articles out there, both on negative anthropogenic climate change, and negative natural climate change.
This thread encourages CT'ers on all sides to re-post here, as responses, the climate change posts of interest they see elsewhere. Overall, ChessTalker's have been quite active here in posting “responses” and it seems that chessplayers across Canada re wanting information on climate change, a challenge unlike any our species has ever faced before.
Note:
1. The goal of this thread is not to woodshed an opposing view into submission. Every position is entitled to post as it sees fit, regardless of the kind of, and amount of, postings by other positions. What is wanted is serious consideration of all posts........then you decide.
2. I personally, as the thread originator, am trying to post a new response at least every 2nd day, but admit my busy schedule means I am sometimes falling short on this. So it is great that a number of other CT'ers are posting responses here somewhat regularly.
The Pressing Climate Change Issue
The core issue:
Building a sense of URGENCY on this issue in society. We must realize that we cannot kick it down the road any longer!
The public is aware of the climate change issue.......
BUT.....
climate activists must find strategies to “AWAKEN” the public to the “urgency”.
It is expected, though somewhat disheartening, to see other negative issues of the day climb immediately to the top of the public's agenda, with climate change being sometimes substantially downgraded in importance. We will all pay for this.........
The Time Line
Nature's Tipping point is estimated to be, on current trajectory, only 9 years away (Around Jan. 1, 2031). Capping the temperature rise at only 1.5 degrees Celsius (the original international target) is now impossible (UN Climate Change Panel's most recent report). Their position is that the problem at this time is mostly due to human activity, and that radical change in our method of living is the only way to avoid this rising, very problematic, temperature. UNCCP noted that current government deadlines were totally insufficient to solve the problem. CO 2 must be capped by 2025! Methane is another greenhouse gas of concern, with some maintaining it contributes more to the problem than CO2. The extent of involvement in the greenhouse effect of water vapour is somewhat controversial.
Also, it has now become necessary to add in the process of CO 2 “removal”, along with “eliminating” the spewing of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere by human activity.
Our window of opportunity is fast closing.
The Large Picture Solutions
Can we come up with at least one viable suggestion of some impressive, radical thing that might wake up the public, that we could then put out there to other concerned climate activists?
Negative “Natural” Climate Change
This thread has had a number of CT'ers arguing for Natural Climate Change, and arguing that the human economic activity contribution to negative climate change is negligible. We are just in one of Nature's long warming cycles.
We would encourage everyone to consider the materials being presented, and then see whether they in any way change your perspective, if you are an adherent of negative Anthropogenic climate change. Whether you change anything, or not, your assessment of the evidence would be most welcome in this thread.
CT'ers' Local Actions on Climate Change
You can do something! When you like one of this thread's links on an aspect of climate change, spread the news by posting it to your social media accounts and other Websites/Discussion Boards you participate in!
I am interested in finding out how many ChessTalker's hold the following view on what I call "The Depopulation Conspiracy Theory":
1. A covert group of persons, who have covert power/influence on national governments, are on a mission to depopulate the Earth.
2. They are ruthless in working to achieve this goal.
3. The sudden appearance of COVID-19, and its variants, and the policies surrounding it, are part of this depopulation effort.
OK CT'ers.......weigh in!
And please give your arguments for or against this theory.
~Bob A (T-S/P)
DR. DAVID MARTIN P.H.D. - MURDER CHARGES COMING SOON ! 2023
I do my bit to get rid of those methane-producing cattle..........but I admit I'm not the carnivore I once was........as a matter of fact, a significant part of my diet is now vegetarian (I really can't go vegan).
It is going to take some time, I think, though, for me to warm to insect protein.
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