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40 Sea Gulls Wrecked His Hotel Room. 17 Years Later, a Pepperoni Pardon. When Nick Burchill left a suitcase full of pepperoni by an open window, the ensuing chaos got him a lifetime ban from a hotel in British Columbia. But he asked for a pardon. A bit off my usual posting tack. But serious animal rights question; do seagulls have the right to freedom of defecation?

Trudeau praises Trump attack on Syria...officially becomes poodle.

I can't believe people posting and opposing attack on Bashir Assad's bases!!!!. Wake up people who are claiming to defend the defenseless. Responsible for chemical attacks or not, Bashir Assad is a proven mass murderer who has killed hundreds of thousands of his own people for his survival ever since uprising against his regime by Syrian people started 8 years ago and millions up to 10 million homeless all because one person (himslelf) wish to survive.

And so it begins, fake news and lies. Beware of what you read from Wynne Liberals and their foreign funded front groups. http://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-more-fake-news-from-ontario-liberals

Climate is the statistical distribution of weather. Thus it is easier to predict than weather itself. Similarly, if you flipped a fair coin 1 million then we can expect with extremely high probability that roughly 50% of the coin flips would be heads. However, we would have no ability to predict an individual coin flip (weather). Objects tend to emit electromagnetic radiation depending on how hot they are. I emit radiation, you emit radiation, the sun emits radiation, the earth emits radiation, etc. There are different types of electromagnetic radiation including x-rays, gamma rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared radiation, microwaves and radiowaves; what distinguishes these types of radiation is the frequency (i.e. colour) of the radiation. The hotter something is, the more electromagnetic radiation it will emit (unless we are dealing with radioactive materials, which is another issue) and also the higher the frequency (i.e. more blue/violet and less red) the radiation will be. The Earth emits electromagnetic radiation, however because the Earth isn't very hot, this radiation is infrared and we can't see it. The sun, is much hotter than the Earth so it's radiation is primarily visible light, which we can see. Ever turn on an electric stove and notice that it starts to glow red as it gets hotter? This is the relevant effect. Different types of gasses have different properties. Some gases might be completely transparent to some types of radiation, but opaque to others. By opaque, I mean that the gas will have a high chance of absorbing a photon of light if the light tries to pass through the gas. The reason for these properties is due to the properties of the individual molecules in the gas, but to explain these properties you have to go into quantum mechanics. Greenhouse gases for Earth are those gases that are transparent to visible light yet opaque to infrared radiation. CO2 is a good example, because if you look at the properties of CO2, it is very transparent to visible light. CO2 tends to absorb infrared radiation around 15 μm very well. When you add more CO2 to the atmosphere, this will not really affect light traveling from the sun to the Earth, since that light tends to be visible; thus the light from the Sun will pass through the atmosphere and warm the surface. In order to cool-off from receiving all this energy from the Sun, the Earth must radiate energy out into space. The surface of the Earth emits infrared radiation which travels towards space. However, if we add more CO2, then there is a higher chance that this energy won't reach outer space and will instead be absorbed by the atmosphere. The atmosphere will then re-emit some of that absorbed energy back towards the Earth's surface. The net effect is that the Earth's surface warms.

A few comments: BC really is not a place where logic prevails. It does things based on emotion, media influence, social attitudes and I guess out of profound respect for its drug culture. It is, however, an accurate portrayal of what is wrong with Canada. We tend to be Quebecers, maritimers, Albertans, etc. If there's anything we should learn from the US it is how to be proud of our province, but far more proud of our country. If we could only learn the basics - such as absolute prohibition of restrictions on interprovincial trade and business we would be on the track - and THAT is why the idea of a province intefering with transportation of a critical resource from another is simply wrong. The science and technology - as well as the regulatory regime concerning ships, loading terminals, pipeline and pumping station environmental protection is extremely high and able to manage the risks very well these days. Now, to be fair: I do NOT support shipping dilbit in pipelines, rail cars, ships or whatever. IMHO, for a dozen good reasons, we should limit transport and export to synthetic crude. Saying we can't predict the weather from one minute to the next would be very unfair and untrue. Yes, the atmosphere (and especially its interaction with both terrestial extra terrestial energy sources) is an extremely large and not yet well understood. BUT: there is no reason not to continue to learn and develop the models - and that means we have to unfortunately give at least some credence to what I personally believe is way off track - and that is the magnitude of anthropomorphic contributions. Our ability to at least give a reasonable level of forecast of surface weather has improved dramatically over the last half century. Anyone who has depended upon aviation forecasting to stay alive in the cockpit can tell you as much. The answer to almost every sustainability question IMHO always comes back to one primary problem - that we are NOT dealing with at all - population.

I was watching the show of Zuckerberg answering the questions of the Congressmen and I couldn't help feeling that if those people (Congressmen) really have the confidence of the electorate to run the affairs of a modern society we are all doomed.