Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain discuss the IPCC’s latest report confirming that some climate degradation is inevitable – but that we face…
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The Pollster’s Apprentices
Think of it as the political equivalent of a guy yelling “squirrel” to his dog. Politicians will stand up on their hind legs when the bones cast and entrails read…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Peter Singer reminds us of the one-time-opposition to mandatory seat belts to make the case to apply a similar principle to vaccinations, while…
Don’t Sugar Coat It, Andrew. Canada’s Plague of Failed Governance.
The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk, in an excoriating rebuke to Alberta premier, Jason Kenney, and his chief medical officer sockpuppet, Hinshaw, has captured a broader and potentially lethal failure of today’s…
On the Hook. IPCC – Extreme Weather for the Rest of Your Days.
That’s your fate. It’s everyone’s fate. We are in an era of extreme weather and we’re in for good. The question now is how much worse we choose to make…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Erika Edwards reports on a push from U.S. pediatricians to speed up the development and distribution of COVID vaccines for children due…
Death on Two Wheels, It’s Sturgis Again
The Covid pandemic was responsible for last year’s Sturgis motorcycle rally slump as just 460,000 bikers showed up. This year has seen a rebound in the 700,000 range. Christina Steele,…
Major IPCC Report Tomorrow
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its latest major report tomorrow in the runup to the November, COP-26 climate summit in Glasgow. It’s the first major assessment since…
Wings For a World On Fire
The prime minister is predictably crossing the country, pressing the flesh, and leaving a trail of billions of dollars in pre-election goodies. Nothing remotely unusual there. What is unusual is…
My Enemy’s Face
There’s an understated malevolence to these guys. They say the right things. They know what dangers loom. Then they lapse into cognitive dissonance. Alok Sharma could be their poster boy.…
TERFy Arguments On Twitter
Today turned out to be “Day of the TERFs” on Twitter for me. I realize that for all that TERFs and GCs like to think of themselves as “clever” and…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Holly Yan examines the growing medical recognition that children need to be protected from COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant). David Holtgrave et…
One Damn Thing After Another
Southeast British Columbia is a Conservative stronghold. The Tories pretty much have a lock on the Okanagan, Kamloops, Kelowna region – the same area that’s reeling from wildfires and Covid-19.…
Musical interlude
BT feat. Emma Hewitt – No Warning Lights (Alpha 9 Remix)
Wildfires Claim Second B.C. Town
Add the resort town of Monte Lake to the conflagration last month that erased the town of Lytton, B.C. On Thursday evening, the White Rock Lake wildfire jumped a highway…
I’m Sorry to Break the News to You but You’re Not Going To Win the Election
I just read the Green Party platform. I came away wondering what these people are smoking. For the last few elections I’ve voted Green, provincially and federally. Now I’m left…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Brooks Fallis highlights why a strategy limited to vaccines won’t stop a fourth wave of COVID-19. The CP reports on the call…
Angus Reid – the Pulse of the Nation, Lib Lead Widens a Smidge
Latest numbers from Angus Reid. Good news for the Liberals. They still hold a 5 point lead over Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives. It’s a 35 to 30 per cent split, probably…
Ah, Jeebus. Not the Atlantic Conveyor!
What next? Is the Gulf Stream, that does so much to regulate the weather in Europe and North America, on the verge of collapse? The research found “an almost complete…