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20 years financial analysis, international financial institutions regulation; 10 years industrial development projects and policy.

Ontario, Canada
Joined March 2022
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Another beautiful day. We started by planting avocado trees that should produce in 3 years time- the saying about old men planting trees.. a permanent mark. We tilled our land and should plant cabbages soon. Had bone soup+ pumpkin and spent the evening in our local tea factory.
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Today, we honour and remember the courage of those who served and scarified their lives in defence of our freedoms. #RemembranceDay #NeubergerAndPartners
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🚨BREAKING🚨 Freedom Research presents an exclusive documentary, "No Boiling Planet: A Climate of False Alarm" Are we really living through an unprecedented climate crisis? We asked the scientists. From the history of Earth's changing climate to CO₂, extreme weather, and the realities of wind and solar energy, the film offers perspectives that question prevailing climate narratives and invites viewers to examine the arguments and draw their own conclusions. Watch and share widely! Scientists and experts featured in the film: William Happer – Physicist, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University Richard Lindzen – Atmospheric physicist, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Judith Curry – @curryja is a climatologist, former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology; Professor Emerita Samuel Furfari – Professor Emeritus of Geopolitics and Energy Policy, Université libre de Bruxelles; former senior official at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy Lars Schernikau – Dr. Lars Schernikau is an energy economist, commodity trader, entrepreneur and author. @lars_schernikau believes that energy should not be a political matter. His conclusions are based on how energy systems actually work, what they cost and what is needed to keep them running reliably. These views are not influenced nor do they change, regardless of one’s views on “anthropogenic global warming” (AGW). Providing reliable and affordable energy is a necessity, not a political angle. Valter Kiisk – Associate Professor, Institute of Physics, University of Tartu Arne Ader – Biologist and renowned nature photographer
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Politicians promise net zero by 2050. But what will it cost you, and how much will it cut global warming? Take the EU: €4.3 trillion ($5.0 trillion), for just 0.0268°C less warming in 2100 Today I launch NetZeroCostBenefit.com: numbers for almost 200 countries. Find yours
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Someone warned me that the effects of climate change are increasing -- and I agreed.
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It's Energy Day at the UN Climate Summit in Turkey #COP31. Hold on to your wallet The host has promised net zero. What would net zero by 2050 buy? Cost to Turkey: ₺83.8 trillion ($1.8 trillion) The world gets 0.0151°C less warming in 2100 NetZeroCostBenefit.com/Turke…
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Replying to @realJanE19
Since there are high level of green voters among university students and of course young people don't mind a small inconvenience to save the world, we should start there: washing machines in universities should only be used when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. One can even automate this: whenever Germany is importing electricity (a clear sign that there is not enough sunshine and wind), all university washing machines should be locked out of service. We should do the same with all electric water heaters in universities as well. With IoT (Internet of Things), this is already feasible with today's technology. Of course, all green voters should do the same, after all, they really want to save the world. It is rather difficult for factories to adapt their power usage to unreliable wind and solar, and not possible at all for many industries. But adapting one's usage of washing machines and electric water heaters to wind and sun is far easier in comparison. Green voters and university students can show us how to do it. They can and should lead by example.
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Earth is still in an Ice Age, and almost nobody knows it. Ice ages don't end when the glaciers melt; they end when all polar ice disappears completely. Right now, ice still covers Antarctica and the Arctic; which means by scientific definition we are still in an Ice Age.
Earth is still in an Ice Age, and almost nobody knows it. Ice ages don't end when the glaciers melt; they end when all polar ice disappears completely. Right now, ice still covers Antarctica and the Arctic; which means by scientific definition we are still in an Ice Age. What we are living in - right now - is called an interglacial period, a warm pause, a temporary thaw between glacial advances. The current interglacial - called the Holocene - began about 11,700 years ago. Every human civilisation, that has ever existed - Ancient Egypt, Rome, China - all of it happened inside this single warm pause. And here is what makes this deeply unsettling; in the last 2.58 million years the Earth has cycled through at least 50 glacial advances. The warm pauses between them typically last 10,000 to 30,000 years. We are already 11,700 years into ours. The ice cores drilled from Antarctica tells us exactly what happened before. Every interglacial ends; every one! The temperature drops, the glaciers advance, and ice sheets kilometres thick crush everything beneath them. During the last Glacial Maximum just 20,000 years ago, ice sheets covered most of North America, Northern Europe and Asia. New York City was under a kilometre of ice. And none of that required a catastrophe. It happened slowly and quietly, driven by wobbles in Earth's orbit around the Sun, called the Milankovitch cycles. The next glacial advance will come; not tomorrow, not in our lifetime. But it will come. We are not living 'after' the Ice Age: We're living inside it. facebook.com/share/v/1MaGGCR…
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UN climate chief Simon Stiell: "Global renewables saved around half a trillion dollars last year" He counts what renewables saved us, but not what they cost us That's like buying a yacht and only announcing what you saved on ferry tickets NetZeroCostBenefit.com/objec…
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#auspol I don't ask much of the public but up to the med 1800s it was too bloody cold because of the Little Ice Age. The public dont have to learn much climate history to understand that. Apart from Michael Manns selected trees all proxies show it.
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30 COPs and absolutely no change in our trajectory of carbon dioxide level. Just an excuse to fly your jet somewhere and have a party. There is no energy chair transition. Fossil fuels remain 80% plus.
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#auspol if you listen to many pollies- they all now know about AI- and I have seen how much they know about atmospheric gas kinetics (= global warming) and also nanotechnology. They are such frauds
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I don't understand why black people don't idolize this man. He is a true genius, one of the most brilliant men of our time. w.
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Every Chinese above the age of 55 lived through this progress, from the drugery of hand washing to the comfort of washing machines. I went to one of the top universities in China in early 1990s. The whole university had a few washing machines that we could wash bed sheets, and strictly bed sheets only. Every student had to hand wash one's own clothes. Climate COP 31 just started today in Turkey, so we can expect two weeks of moral hysteria in mainstream media denouncing evil fossil fuels from many people who take the benefits of industrialization for granted, yet they are on a self righteous crusade to save the world. If every anti fossil fuel activist and especially every UN climate bureaucrat were required to hand wash one's own clothes for at least three months,maybe we could be spared of this massive show of hypocricy.
A century ago, washing clothes could consume hours of physical labor. Today, you throw them in a machine, press a button, and go do something else. Capitalism didn't just make washing machines affordable. It gave ordinary people something even more valuable: their time back.
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Many claim CO2 warming is causing Greenland glacier melt, but there's more to the story beneath the ice, and its melt contribution is still being studied. science.nasa.gov/earth/ocean…
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The Quran justifies domestic violence (beating of wives), child sex trafficking (arranged child marriages), rape (female sex slaves), and murder (honor killing females, or stoning females to de*th for adultery) This is Islam, which now sits in more than 255 elected offices in the United States, and has infiltrated the U.S. Senate. Classical tafsirs by scholars including Ibn Kathir and Al-Tabari support traditional readings of physical discipline, waiting periods for non-menstruating children, and sex slaves. Mohammed 54, married a 6-year-old child, and allegedly waited until she was 9 to have sex with her. Quran 4:34: Men are the maintainers of women because allah has given them preference. Righteous women are devoutly obedient. “But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance [nushuz]—[first] advise them; forsake them in bed; and [finally], beat them, strike them or “scourge them.” Quran 65:4 Talks about the waiting period (iddah) after divorce: “And those of your women who have despaired of menstruation, if you have any doubts, their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated.” “Those who have not menstruated” are little girls who have not yet had their period - meaning if you divorce a little girl who has not yet had her period, there is a waiting period to have sex. This is linked in tradition to reports of 6-year-old Aisha’s marriage. Quran 23:5-6 and 70:29-30 Instruct believers to guard their chastity “except from their wives or those their right hands possess [female slaves/concubines], for indeed, they will not be blamed.” Explicitly talks about sex slaves. Quran 4:3, 4:24, 4:25, and 33:50 Allows for u*slim men to have sex slaves, including married women whose prior marriages are considered dissolved upon capture. (Muslims kill the men and kidnap the women to turn them into sex slaves) The story of Lot (Quran 7:80-84) Condemns the people of Sodom for being homosexual, describing it as an unprecedented immorality and punishable by being stoned to de*th. Later hadiths say women who commit adultery should be killed. Quran 24:2 Calls for 100 lashes for an unmarried woman who has sex. It calls for death if the woman is married. Quran 33:33 “And abide in your houses and do not display yourselves as [was] the display of the former times of ignorance.” Women are house slaves and are not allowed anywhere without permission, and it must be for a legitimate reason approved by the man. Men are to work; women are to obey men. This is why Muslims view women as second-class and countries that import migrants from MUslim majority countries suffer from high rates of rape.
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The IPCC is a bureaucratic body that decides what goes into its Assessment Reports. This has been well documented. So, again, FALSE. Climate Alarmism is a dangerous dogma and scam. #auspol #BBCNews
Replying to @BirdlifeSC
… The IPCC does not have or use datasets. Datasets are obtained from scientific research organisations or directly from scientists. EE’s IPCC claims are deliberate attempts at fabricating a conspiracy.
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Earth is still in an Ice Age, and almost nobody knows it. Ice ages don't end when the glaciers melt; they end when all polar ice disappears completely. Right now, ice still covers Antarctica and the Arctic; which means by scientific definition we are still in an Ice Age. What we are living in - right now - is called an interglacial period, a warm pause, a temporary thaw between glacial advances. The current interglacial - called the Holocene - began about 11,700 years ago. Every human civilisation, that has ever existed - Ancient Egypt, Rome, China - all of it happened inside this single warm pause. And here is what makes this deeply unsettling; in the last 2.58 million years the Earth has cycled through at least 50 glacial advances. The warm pauses between them typically last 10,000 to 30,000 years. We are already 11,700 years into ours. The ice cores drilled from Antarctica tells us exactly what happened before. Every interglacial ends; every one! The temperature drops, the glaciers advance, and ice sheets kilometres thick crush everything beneath them. During the last Glacial Maximum just 20,000 years ago, ice sheets covered most of North America, Northern Europe and Asia. New York City was under a kilometre of ice. And none of that required a catastrophe. It happened slowly and quietly, driven by wobbles in Earth's orbit around the Sun, called the Milankovitch cycles. The next glacial advance will come; not tomorrow, not in our lifetime. But it will come. We are not living 'after' the Ice Age: We're living inside it. facebook.com/share/v/1MaGGCR…
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I've mentioned my mother from time to time. Over the past 6 months, she declined quite rapidly and, last week, died at 103 years old. She leaves 46(!) direct descendants: 6 children, 16 grandchildren and 24 (and counting) great-grandchildren. Obituary here: legacy.com/ca/obituaries/the…; celebration of life next Sunday afternoon in Toronto.
as I mentioned last week, my 101-year old mother was one of 5 veterans honored at the Blue Jays baseball game on Canada Day. Here are a few screenshots from the TV coverage and a link to a recording of the event. 21 of the children and grandchildren went to the event. She was thrilled. myqnapcloud.com/smartshare/7…
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Fantasy. I've looked hard, but I can't find anywhere "clean energy" in the form of wind and solar have reduced wholesale electricity costs, and that has been passed on to the consumer. It only works with subsidies, tax breaks, and the like. Pass. w. breitbart.com/news/democrats…
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