Peter Kent Didn’t Age Well

Kent looks the same… but his mind has left him.

Amazing CBC coverage of climate change from the early 1980s. Bob McDonald, Peter Kent, and others make appearances:
Attention Washington: Peter Kent explains Climate Change (the briefing you won’t see).

“The natural preoccupation with the weather tomorrow, the next day, or even Thursday, has distracted public attention from the longer term implications of the Greenhouse Effect.” – Peter Kent, 1984 on CBC

“The Greenhouse Effect must be considered as the world’s most serious environmental concern.” Now he’s the nation’s Environment Minister, and he acts like a POS. What he says does not match his, or his government’s actions. “December 2011 [Kent] announced Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto accord. Canada is committed to getting a new agreement, he says, but it won’t be easy.”

Some of the best/worst parts of the video included “adaptationalists” thinking increased temperatures and acidified oceans can just be adapted to (as mass plant and animal extinctions go on around us while we supposedly soldier on). Mass delusion allows humanity to carry on as it does to its certain demise. I think I know how things will go if an asteroid is observed & predicted to hit Earth within a decade… nothing, until the crash. Humans are pathetically bad at taking immediate action to prevent long term ‘fuzzy’ catastrophes.

This video shows how the Canadian Environment Minister has known for THREE DECADES of a coming calamity to his country (and the world), and now he’s in a position of power to act, and does nothing. Worse than nothing, since pollution is still increasing. His duplicitous actions (or incompetence) make me sick, and they are sealing humanity’s fate.

Mini Solar Tour in the Fog of Wood Mountain and Glentworth

I went on a road trip Saturday with my friend Adam K., down to my parents’ place, and his grandparents’ farm. On the way around southern Saskatchewan, we saw close to 150 deer and antelope, a snowy owl, a dozen hawks, a handful of Canada Geese, smaller birds, two dead raccoons, and the final resting place of four children who passed away in 1919 (Spanish Flu maybe?).

The road into Regina was ice, and the road to Moose Jaw was quite a bit better, but still partly covered in a thick layer of ice. There was a semi on the eastbound highway that had done a 180, and blew open its trailer door, strewing boxes across the ditch at Belle Plaine.

We filled up in Moose Jaw, then ate at the Steakhouse in Assiniboia (we had waffles). The GPS kept trying to convince us to turn off the paved road instead of going to Limerick. We went to Limerick, I took a couple photos, and on through flooded Flintof and dry Wood Mountain we continued. Many deer were along the way, and the misting rain continued through the trip after Moose Jaw’s southern hills.

- A hawk about to land

After second lunch we strolled around the various energy and heating systems my parents had installed for their home.

Convincing SaskPower that a generator ring/link was a good idea for a Saskatchewan power meter, took some convincing. Fortunately Dad is persistent.

- 1925 built Ukrainian Catholic near Glentworth, SK

More photos next time of the animals who made this print:

Make Fun in Regina

Of course, you can write in the snow too; Write with your finger.

-Here’s where I narrowly missed the Archives Week presentation on prohibition of alcohol.

It’s Cold Outside

The ol’ digital thermometer is saying it’s about -35 in Regina this morning, before the windchill value is calculated. I still saw ESL students walking to school without toques or hoods on this morning.

Sandy Wind Blows

The largest hurricane recorded is underway, and it’s hitting the US and Canada. Is it because of climate change? The short answer is, yes. If you’re asking that question because you’re wondering if climate change is real, the answer is, yes it is real and we have to make a better effort to reduce greenhouse gas pollution immediately.

Wind blowing people over will become a lot more common if we don’t convince our politicians to collectively act where individuals cannot. Centuries ago, it used to be that the punishment for ignoring reality was your own obscurity and demise. With a socialized state, industrial revolution, and global economy, the consequences of teeming masses of people willing to ignore reality results in economic and ecological collapse. Good luck getting Harper’s government to care while they are busy making money, and stripping power from the people.

ADDED:

Science is not a topic suitable only to a limited number of people. It’s essential that our political leaders, and our people understand it enough to make long term decisions that don’t jeopardize our health and safety. Presently, the debate is too charged with rhetoric paid for by people who have no interest in science, but have found a willing audience who gladly take hold of the escape that denial offers. You only need to read the people raving about socialist plots in my own blog’s comment sections to find people so deranged and out of touch with the reality that can literally blow them over and flood their city.

Folk Festival Saturday

Some more photos from the Wood Mountain Folk Festival, with videos to come when I send some to YouTube.

Little Miss Higgins

The backdrop over the audience

Scene from that hill

Scene on that hill

Sunset from that hill

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On Sunday, my Mum and I helped out at the pancake breakfast, moving tables, serving, etc. Dad contributed some solar powered lighting for the info booth the night before, so we picked that equipment up too. The “green” stage was powered by 4 solar panels, and had a backup cooking oil generator which they never needed to fire up while I was there.

Wood Mountain Folk Fest

On this weekend I’m at the Wood Mountain Folk Fest. Last night the air was cool and windy, with a few drops of rain, but dozens of people stuck it out anyway in front of the stage while a lot of others watched and listened from their trucks lined up as if it was a drive-in.

North Sky from Regina

- Last night during the thunderstorm.

- A few months ago when everyone in Regina got those great mammatus cloud photos.

Sunset

This is the sunset a few evenings ago, through a #12 welding filter plate.

ConCalls: Show The Cards Elections Canada #RoboCon

A lawyer is trying to compel Elections Canada to release more public details of its super slow investigation into the election fraud from May 2011. Apparently the next date we’ll have any news from the Federal Court is August 8th.

In the meantime, the greatest crime against this country in modern times goes unpunished, as our illegitimate government rolls on as our elections enforcement agency flounders. How could there be no charges (and no investigation anymore) for the 2008 Robocalls in SG-I that pretended to be from the NDP? Where is the charge against Pierre Poutine, now that Burke’s Conservative campaign contractor Prescott had been found to have used the same computer as Poutine? Where are the charges against Dean Del Mastro, his cousin, and campaign manager, now that it’s been shown in the media that the campaign overspent, faked a return, and was allegedly funded using an illegal payback scheme? Where are the charges against company executives accused of organizing fraudulent live-calls that misdirected non-Conservative voters? Where is the damned enforcement! Enforce the Damned Law!

UPDATE: The Conservative’s lawyer wants the court to ignore evidence Elections Canada can provide because he’s concerned it would delay the case! More confirmation that the Conservative Party is devoted to the Death of Evidence.

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Bad weather comes by every week this Summer.

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I watched “The Muppets” [6/10], half in Victoria Park Wed. night. It was alright, although the music was uninspiring for the most part, and thus the show overall wasn’t fantastic like it could have been.