Meet the federal Liberal government’s new natural resources minister: The Honourable James Gordon Carr.
If you haven't heard of him before, don't feel bad. Neither had the Calgary-based Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC). They had to google him, too.
So, who is he? Carr is the new Liberal MP for the Winnipeg riding of South Centre - and he's green, really green.
Carr has been endorsed by the environmentalist think tank GreenPac, and he has referred to Canada as a "colossal fossil" regarding the federal government’s approach to climate change. Championing a national energy strategy, he once praised the efforts of disgraced former Alberta premier Alison Redford.
That's troubling, because Carr is the minister responsible for pipelines, mining, exploration, minerals and extraction.
At first glance, his appointment is hardly confidence-inspiring for those with ties to the mining world and to the oil and gas industry.
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Degrees are like tickets. If you do not have one, then you can not enter the door to some employment positions.
I think that those who did not get a degree and still lived a good life can be more proud than those who got a degree.
I remember Eugene Whelan, the agriculture minister under Pierre Trudeau, expressing his great pride at being a minister in the federal government even though he had to drop out of high school to work on the farm.
He knew that what counted was character and integrity.
Dear Diary:
Oh crap. Now I find out that my newly appointed Minister of Science, Kirsti Duncan, falsely described herself on Facebook as a “Nobel Peace Prize Laureate”. This could be awkward for me. I wonder if Gerald knew about this when he told me to appoint her. How the hell to I smother this? I know, I’m spending the day with Mansbridge, he’ll take care of it, after all, for another $150,000,000 on top of the one billion, he owes me big time. Nothing solves a problem better than throwing money after it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJkVmPc707c&channel=sstylianou
and a review of the movie I found that helps to put the speech in context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgC0JszSOyw&channel=WaitTilYouHearThis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN6JV2GXyvg&channel=atlasshruggedmovies
Like so many of Trudeau’s cabinet Carr has a lot of learning to do.
It feels good, though, to have the most representative and best educated cabinet in this country in a long time.
We all know that Justin will be eagerly looking for the agreement papers to sign away Canada’s sovereignty to the UN.
We will wait and see how Justin does on his overseas escapades.
As a geoscientist and former member of the Manitoba Legislature, MaryAnn Mihychuk will bring a significant amount of both legislative and industry-related experience to the riding of Kildonan—St.Paul. Elected as a member of Manitoba’s NDP government in 1995, MaryAnn served as Minister of Industry, Trade, and Mines and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs during her nine years as an MLA. She has since become a proud member of the Liberal Party of Canada. MaryAnn has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Winnipeg and a Master’s in Geology from Brock University, and has worked in several capacities within Canada’s mineral industry. She was the founder of both Women in Mining Canada and Women in Mining Manitoba, an organization of which she is currently President. Recognized for her vision and leadership by the Manitoba Association of Engineers and Geoscientists, MaryAnn led the renewal of The Mines Act, which the industry rated as the best policy framework in the world. In 2010, MaryAnn was one of two Jack Gallagher Visiting geoscientists at the University of Manitoba, and she is the first ever recipient of the 2012 Women in Mining International Trailblazer Award. Ever-active in her community, MaryAnn is a former trustee of the Winnipeg School Division, secretary of the Snow Lake Chamber of Commerce, and both a founder and member of West End Citizens on Patrol and the Orioles Literacy Program.
A geoscientist colleague of mine mentioned that most geologists he knows do not believe that man-made carbon dioxide raises global temperatures in any significant manner. I am not saying that Ms. Mihychuk, a geoscientist, follows that which appears to be almost universal in the geoscientist community, but perhaps it is Mr. Carr’s “scientific” Greenie beliefs which netted him the position over Ms. Mihychuk who obviously appears to be the best candidate for the job…it surely isn’t because she is a woman.
Below are interesting comments by my geoscientist colleague taken without his permission so he shall remain unnamed. Forgive me this long post.
“PM AND PREMIERS GOING ON VACATION IN PARIS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CARBON DIOXIDE. HERE ARE SOME FACTS:
Carbon dioxide, considered the main vector for human-caused global warming, is some 0.038% of the atmosphere1- a trace gas. Water vapor varies from 0% to 4%2, and should easily average 1% or more3 near the Earth’s surface, where the greenhouse effect would be most important, and is about three times more effective4 a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. So water vapor is at least 25 times more prevalent and three times more effective; that makes it at least 75 times more important to the greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide5. The TOTAL contribution of carbon dioxide to the greenhouse effect is therefore 0.013 or less. The total human contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide since the start of the industrial revolution has been estimated at about 25%6. So humans’ carbon dioxide greenhouse effect is a quarter of 0.013, works out to about 0.00325. Total warming of the Earth by the greenhouse effect is widely accepted as about 33 degrees Centigrade, raising average temperature to 59 degrees Fahrenheit. So the contribution of anthropogenic carbon dioxide is less than 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit, or under 0.1 degree Centigrade. Global warming over the last century is thought by many to be 0.6 to 0.8 degrees Centigrade.
But that’s only the beginning. We’ve had global warming for more than 10,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age, and there is evidence temperatures were actually somewhat warmer 9,000 years ago and again 4,500 to 8,000 years ago than they are today7. Whatever caused that, it was not human activity. It was not all those power plants and factories and SUVs being operated by Stone Age cavemen while chipping arrowheads out of bits of flint. Whatever the cause was, it melted the glaciers that in North America once extended south to Long Island and parts of New York City8 into virtually complete disappearance (except for a few mountain remnants). That’s one big greenhouse effect! If we are still having global warming – and I suppose we could presume we are, given this 10,000 year history – it seems highly likely that it is still the overwhelmingly primary cause of continued warming, rather than our piddling 0.00325 contribution to the greenhouse effect.
Yet even that trend-continuation today needs to be proved. Evidence is that the Medieval Warm Period centered on the 1200s was somewhat warmer than we are now9, and the climate was clearly colder in the Little Ice Age in the 1600s than it is now10. So we are within the range of normal up-and-down fluctuations without human greenhouse contributions that could be significant, or even measurable.
The principal scientists arguing for human-caused global warming have been demonstrably disingenuous11, and now you can see why. They have proved they should not be trusted.
The idea that we should be spending hundreds of billions of dollars and hamstringing the economy of the entire world to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is beyond ludicrous in light of the facts above; it is insane. Furthermore, it sucks attention and resources from seeking the other sources of warming and from coping with climate change and its effects in realistic ways. The true motivation underlying the global warming movement is almost certainly ideological and political in nature, and I predict that
Anthropogenic Global Warming, as currently presented, will go down as the greatest fraud of all time. It makes Ponzi and Madoff look like pikers by comparison."
I think mane are the same person, some posing a conservative troll and some as a leftie troll. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. Maybe the name “Kelly” is popular as a first and/or last name.
Just an observation.
Yes Jay, maybe to teach music or play in an orchestra.
Nero had his fiddle to play while Rome burned, now Canada has an oboe player to do the same.
people speak.