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I can't wait for your class on nanothermite and 9/11. LMAO!

You can't go wrong putting your faith in the stuff Karoline Leavitt does. ...tariffs are tax hikes on other countries...tariffs are tax cuts for American people... Yup, it'll be rainbows and lollipops for all. Sunny ways for sure. LMAO!

Sure, you might see healthy ecosystems after centuries of adaptation. In the meantime between now and then it'll be a tough row to hoe. The pace of adaptation however will be to rapid and challenging for many species to make the transition. Yup, poor people make lousy stewards of their environment alright. This may have been a realistic goal back when there were only 3 billion or so humans but not now with 8 billion and another projected 2 billion to come. We've highgraded the planet's resources and taken virtually all the best it's had to offer with the result being an imbalance of wealth that 95% of humans will never come close enough to catch up with. Socioeconomic inequality is even worse. The range of issues are as complex as they are diverse.

Yes they have, go look it up yourself. The truth is out there. Harper only had to engineer a two year global recession first. Good job.

Shitty midterms won't bother him a bit. They'll just inspire him to throw even more gasoline on the conflagration he's igniting.

You aren't better off now than you were 50 days ago? He's stickin' it to libbies so that must count for something. Are the shits and giggles wearing a little too thin?

The data also shows that plant and animal species, many that we depend on, are not thriving at all in the face of AGW. Many species are simply unable to adapt fast enough to the changes global warming is causing such as; habitat loss, altered species interactions such as plants blooming earlier than the timing of animal reproduction and feeding cycles, droughts, warming oceans etc. Many species are inching closer to extinction and some are on the brink. Human beings evolved to live in a complex of different ecosystems and a world of diversity and that's disappearing. We won't be thriving for long on a simplified planet with little to no diversity. We may be the weediest species the planet has ever seen but we've never had to make do with nothing more than other weedy species that seem to be increasingly dominating our ecosystems - many of them introduced by us. That's another leading cause of extinction btw.

Trump is also a symbol of and for a hard right wing brand that's reached its shelf life. People have had their fill of its reaction to the list of fill-in-your-grievances-here. Poilievre simply has too many people within his base of supporters who cleave this way. Between that and the Orange Right-wing Beacon burning so brightly to the south of us moderate Canadians are warier.

Have you presented this conclusion to the IPCC? If you actually have evidence of this and it checks out you'll be I'm line for a Nobel prize, millions in cash and prizes and of course you'll be buried under a pile of underwear that would make Steven Tyler blush. You could single handedly save the global economy and bring peace to Earth. Have you thought about that? No one is getting rich off Canada's carbon tax. 90% of it is returned to lower income people 10% goes to AGW initiatives and the cost is born by those people who produce the most emissions, which is to say wealthier Canadians who can afford the tax. Of course these are who can also afford to make the sort of investment in the emmission free technology it takes to avoid the tax and they get subsidies for doing so which is what the other 10% collected goes towards. It's called revenue neutral for a reason and that neutrality is why so many economists support it. It also leaves fossil fuel companies out of it and all they'll see is demand for their products decline. Something they're already planning for. Everything Poilievre is proposing that you're voting for will do less, cost more and make the people who own fossil fuel companies rich off subsidies. This will only incentivize them to stay in business as long as possible thereby making AGW worse - and no rebates for low-income people.

I don't see too many Canadians as upset as Americans over the various twists and turns of events.

In any case it looks like Canada and especially Doug Ford is kicking Trump's ass at the moment. Like kicking an elephant though, the signal needs to travel to thru and back and forth between Trump and the ordinary Americans who will be feeling it. Hopefully Trump just strokes out or something.

The escalation, ongoing 51st state rhetoric and state of emergency talk from Trump makes it at least plausible to think he might try something like blockading Canada if we messed with their oil supply. The US has staged coups, installed and propped up many dictators over the decades when it came to oil. As for educated Canadians, is he imagining everyone will just show up to work and keep the energy supply running for America's benefit following our annexation? Maybe at gunpoint.

Yup, the dumbass Yanks really aren't thinking very clearly these days.

No doubt the US and China are saying we'll just get potash from someone else but won't it take as long to get trade deals with other suppliers?

Of course it should always be repeated that it was Poilievre's Carbon tax Conservatives who first introduced carbon pricing to Canada in 2008.

In 2021, Canada ranked as the 12th largest GHG emitting country/region. Canada's share of global emissions decreased from 1.76% in 2005 to 1.40% in 2021. We're a more significant contributor to AGW than people like to pretend.

The tax has reduced emissions and the tax is growing in popularity around the world. People are just impatient.

Sure it's a fart in a windstorm and the effects will be felt slowly but they'll eventually pile up. The very same way the effects of adding CO2 to our atmosphere have piled up and now to the point they're being felt more quickly.

That's not the intent of carbon taxes. The point of the tax is to change our behaviour, the way taxes that reduce for example our use of tobacco will stop or slow heart or lung disease. The only way to prevent worsening AGW is to reduce our use of fossil fuels. He doesn't make climate change an issue because the climate changes all the time. The real issue is AGW. And he needs these worried voters support to win. That means he intends to virtue signal. In his case that will mean subsidizing fossil fuel companies to 'invest' in unproven, ineffective, hellishly expensive methods to make it appear as if he is controlling the climate. Of course he's not going to tax industry he's going to subsidize it and pass these costs on to you the taxpayer. And you can bet the oil companies will pass their costs onto you as well. I suppose it could be argued that his 'plan' might also incentivize people to change their behaviour and look for cheaper alternatives but at a lot more expense and with no rebates for lower income people who need the help and subsidies for wealthy people who don't. Maybe, Carney says the same thing and I would expect there'll be lots of expensive subsidies for nuclear power too. It'll still take several years largely I think because there will be resistance to relaxing the environmental and safety regulations that will unleash the nuclear industry.

Excuse me, I should have said, he clearly doesn't have the balls, honesty or integrity to call it an AGW is bullshit election. Kicking PP's ass on the climate file will be as simple as asking him if he even thinks AGW is real. You can bet PP won't be answering Natural CC is real even if that's what the most solid base of his supporters want to see and hear. Instead he'll be politically correct and signal his virtue and probably without the apple.

Did you know that Poilievre says we need to, as you like to put it, control the climate? Hilarious how many Canadians who think its bullshit will still vote for him. You'll still vote for him won't you?

PP is a climate change denier plain and simple. Carbon tax election? LMAO! He clearly doesn't have the balls, honesty or integrity to call it a climate change is bullshit election.

It's not just Trump that's making Canadians back away from PP, the whole right-wing brand is wearing thin. Vote woke go broke? It seems voting for the angry hard-boiled MAGA vision for the future is making people even more broke if plunging stock markets and fear of a Trump induced recession grows.

And yet, 90% of it is still rebated to lower income Canadians who actually get back more than they pay.

That's right, where did you get the idea we could?