Man camps, human trafficking and child porn rings

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From the peope who brought you a $9 Trillion price tag and the fun idea of "economic security for those who are unable or unwilling to work", not to mention eradicating farting cows from the countryside in favour of eating insects etc

assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf



From Watts Up With That

“Pipeline and resource development leads to man camps, human trafficking, and child-porn rings.”

I really didn’t want to write this post. It is vile and disgusting and incendiary, and can only serve to increase polarization. But the comments in the headlines were actually said, in a church, by activists, while the likes of David Suzuki and Naomi Klein sat approvingly in the audience. And Canada needs to hear what Green New Deal people actually are thinking, if their madness is to be part of the upcoming election.

The following comments were made during an Green New Deal town hall meeting at a church in Toronto recently, as reported by the National Observer. An activist lawyer had this to say about Canada’s resource industry, verbatim from the article: “(Pipelines and resource developments) involve large numbers of man camps, and wherever there are man camps or any kind of natural resource development, you have high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, human trafficking, high rates of child-porn rings — both in Canada and in the U.S.” [emphasis added, but not needed]

This is where we are now at, folks. There is no bottom to the barrel. The National Observer considers this to be news, and their pallid, hateful readership considers it to be relevant dialogue. Every single one of them considers such filth to be part of a platform to govern a nation.

Naomi Klein filled in some more blanks, in case anyone was unsure of where she stood: ““We have a governing party that talks a good game about climate, but still behaves as if the only industry that can create good jobs is the oil and gas industry, and that’s just simply not true.” …Misinformation will be a huge problem moving forward, Klein said.”

It defies common sense to think that these conversations are happening outside of an asylum. It is simply unreal to think that an accomplished author like Klein could listen to a speaker talk of a link between pipeline construction and child-porn rings, then complain minutes later about how the oil and gas industry’s employment numbers are “misinformation”. We have moved from discussions about CO2 levels to attempts to link resource extraction with child pornography. The Green New Deal and its acolytes can sink no lower. No matter what you think about the ethics of business – and I will be first to say that Wall Street and Bay Street are light years from being ethical strongholds – remember these comments when you sit in the ballot box and contemplate voting for anyone that smells of the Green New Deal.

The gap between those that are responsible for keeping the world running and those that engage in mindlessly vicious climate change rhetoric is widening at an alarming pace, and it is becoming absurd. Consider that, because of the binary nature of the debate, to state publicly one’s approval of Canada’s petroleum sector and its ability to be a part of the world’s unfaltering supply requirements is now to approve of “cultural genocide”, “human trafficking”, and “child-porn rings” – their words, not mine. Providing the fuel that keeps us alive, including heat in winter and food on the table, is now deemed to be activity that fosters child pornographers.

publicenergynumberone.com/2019/06/15/green-new-deal-advocates-pipeline-and-resource-development-leads-to-man-camps-human-trafficking-and-child-porn-rings-and-these-people-want-to-govern-a-nation/

wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/16/green-new-deal-advocates-pipeline-and-resource-development-leads-to-man-camps-human-trafficking-and-child-porn-rings/


These days anything to do with the climate defies common sense. That's why you have to believe. These people are quite, quite mad.

David Suzuki: About as credible as Bill Nye the Faked Science Guy:

Three times in Q&A he admitted he didn’t know — he didn’t know there was a pause in warming for the last 15 years, he didn’t know how global temperatures are measured, and he didn’t know that cyclones were not increasing over the Great Barrier Reef. He wants politicians jailed for “denying the science”. “You bet!” he exclaims, but then admits he hasn’t thought that through either.

joannenova.com.au/2013/09/david-suzuki-bombs-on-qa-knows-nothing-about-the-climate/


Naomi Klein: A Canadian SJW with deep self-loathing:

Naomi Klein has attempted to link climate, fossil fuels and racism, but in my opinion Naomi’s piece inadvertently embraces the ugly colonialist paternalism which she tries to insist we should reject.



It really is the new religion.

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and the newest of insanities,
talking of climate change I came across this... about the fall of Rome and the little ice age

The plague features prominently in several modern histories of the fall of empire is known to us from sixth century CE writers such as the Byzantine historian Procopius and the Syriac Church historian John of Ephesus. They describe an illness that caused fevers, swollen buboes, and hallucinations. DNA analysis of sixth century skeletal remains has revealed that the disease was bubonic plague. Harper has estimated that mortality rates during the first pandemic were as high as 50-60% of the total population of the Empire. The Medievalist Lester Little, editor of Plague and the End of Antiquity, wrote that the plague helped “usher in the Middle Ages.”


The second is a cluster of environmental changes that includes the so-called Dust Veil event (or perhaps disaster, but it’s mainly known as “the Dust Veil Event”), which took place in 535-36 CE and was caused by volcanic eruptions, and was followed by the so-called “Late Antique Little Ice Age,” a period of cooling in the 6th-7th centuries CE. According to Procopius, “during [535-46 CE] a most dread portent took…the sun gave forth its light without brightness ... and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear.” Evidence from elsewhere around the globe suggests that something “big” happened in this period. A dense fog was seen in China and Europe. There was a drought in Peru; and snow fell during summer months in China. The Irish Annals also refer to crop failures.
Scientific analysis of tree-rings by Mike Baillie, a scientist at the Queen’s University in Belfast, revealed that there was very little growth in Irish oaks in 536 CE (with a second drop in 542). Independent ice core analysis from Greenland and Antarctica uncovered substantial deposits of sulfates 534 CE (give or take two years), which is suggestive of acidic dust in the atmosphere. These eruptions were followed, according to scientist Ulf Büntgen, by LALIA, a period of cooler temperatures across Europe that lasted from 536-660 CE

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/spotlight/do-these-skeletons-hold-the-secret-to-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire/ar-AAD2wwO?ocid=spartandhp

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Scientific analysis of tree-rings by Mike Baillie, a scientist at the Queen’s University in Belfast, revealed that there was very little growth in Irish oaks

Sounds impressive, doesn't it?

Tree rings - especially from a deciduous or non-evergreen species like Oaks - tell you very little. Oaks are dormant throughout the winter. Tree growth can be limited or promoted by temperature, rainfall/water, soil nutrients etc. there was very little growth in Irish oaks isn't scientific, it's a generalisation. Bristlecone pine tree rings provided the 'temperature record' for Michael Mann's infamous global warming hockey stick graph, but...


Bristlecone rings, which vary in width year to year, reveal that the trees have an innate ability to endure times of stress, such as a string of drought years. In such periods, the species can go almost dormant. “There is something a little fantastic,” wrote Edmund Schulman in the March 1958 National Geographic, “in the persistent ability of a 4,000-year-old tree to shut up shop almost everywhere throughout its stem in a very dry year, and faithfully to reawaken to add many new cells in a favorable year.”

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/long.html


Tree rings often tell you more about water availability than anything else...

“Through long-past ages and with unbroken regularity, trees have jotted down a record at the close of each fading year—a memorandum as to how they passed the time; whether enriched by added rainfall or injured by lightning and fire…. So, in the rings of the talkative pines we find lean years and fat years recorded. The same succession of drought and plenty appears throughout the forest.”

And...

In the 1950s one of Douglass’ former students and a respected tree researcher in his own right, Edmund Schulman, headed into the White Mountains to look at the trees rumored to be very old. He discovered Methuselah and the old bristlecone pines surrounding it. Around the trees, even older dead trees remained on the ground. Together, they gave a climate record of the Southwest United States that extends back 9,000 years, the longest record for a single tree species.

Douglas’ rings tell about rainfall in the southwestern United States, but trees also respond to changes in sunlight, temperature, and wind, as well as non-climate factors like the amount of nutrients in the soil and disease. By observing how these factors combine to affect tree rings in a region today, scientists can guess how they worked in the past. For example, rainfall in the southwestern United States is the factor that affects tree growth most, but in places where water is plentiful, like the Pacific Northwest, the key factor affecting tree ring growth may be temperature.

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Paleoclimatology_CloseUp

wattsupwiththat.com/2008/03/19/treemometers-or-rain-gauges/


Beware scientists using tree ring proxies.