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A Multibillion-Dollar Clean Coal Plant Never Worked, and Now It's Been Imploded
Residents in Kemper County, Mississippi, were startled early Saturday morning by a "loud explosion" coming from the local coal plant. It wasn't an industrial accident, though. Instead, it was the planned demolition of parts of the Kemper Plant.
Dramatic footage posted to Twitter shows the plant's implosion. (You should really watch it.) Local outlet KTOK reported that the explosions were meant to remove towers used in turning coal to gas as part of the plant's original design—a design that failed spectacularly. The demolition is the last chapter in a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar disaster of a story about attempts to make clean coal happen.
Kemper Coal Gasification & Storage Plant Imploded (Obama's climate 'centerpiece' bites the dust)
The quick fix of coal gasification and CO2 storage is all but dead. Projects will continue, and the subsidies will flow if Biden gets his way. But it is greenwashing and greenwasting.
The shiny star to be, Plant Ratcliffe, better known as the Kemper Project, a $6.7 billion integrated gasification power plant, was an experimental boondoggle from the start (mid-2010). The dream really ended years ago, with The Guardian reporting in March 2018:
"This was the flagship project that was going to lead the way for a whole new generation of coal power plants," said Richard Heinberg, senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. "If the initial project doesn't work then who's going to invest in any more like it?"
Company officials have blamed the failure on factors ranging from competition from tumbling natural gas prices to bad weather, bad timing and plain old bad luck.
Boris Johnson strikes £400m deal with Bill Gates to boost green technology
Heat pumps are one of the biggest cons that I have seen and Boris's £5,000 grants to install them is doomed to fail, writes construction expert ROGER BISBY
On the building advice website that I now run, I have been deluged by unhappy customers who were persuaded to install heat pumps (which are either ground source or air source, depending on design) but who bitterly regretted their decision.
One told me that he bought a new-build house which had an air source heat pump installed.
The customer's bills were similar to those from the gas boilers they had before: But now they pay an extra £450 a year for service and maintenance if something goes wrong – as it frequently does.
Another contact of mine in the trade told me of a customer north of the border who had a ground source heat pump installed thanks to a Scottish government grant. He said it had never worked.
Contractors had dug up his garden three times to refit various components. Eventually he gave up altogether, dismantled it, installed solar panels – and now relies on his old oil boiler during the winter.
Biden's EPA Faces Lawsuit for Illegally Stacking Science Advisory panels
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in September, in a break from "presidential norms," the Biden administration asked 12 officials appointed to military service academy advisory boards by former President Donald Trump to resign or face dismissal.
That isn't the only havoc Biden has been wreaking among important government boards, either. A new lawsuit claims Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan has illegally fired dozens of independent scientific advisers from two key committees earlier this year and replaced them with academics dependent on the agency for grant money.
Stanley Young, a statistician who has worked on pharmaceutical research and is a former member of the EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB), alleged in a complaint filed in Washington, DC federal court Thursday that the March 31 purge by Regan showed that the agency "has a problem with dissent."
Not Breaking: Manchin Rejects Centerpiece Of Biden's Climate Agenda... Which Progressive Dems Insist On
Update (1118ET): Manchin reiterated on Tuesday morning that he's not in favor of a carbon tax, and that he wasts the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed first.
Meanwhile, Sinema was spotted earlier in the day arriving at the White House to meet with President Joe Biden.
Emerging World Hands Dems A "$750 Billion Bill" For Climate Change Ahead Of Glasgow Summit
While the EU's leading unelected bureaucrats continue to play footsie with the Kremlin while energy prices soar and EU member states reckon with the prospect of a very cold winter, the Wall Street Journal has just taken the time to remind us why the far-left Democrats' progressive "Green New Deal" climate rhetoric is all but destined to fail. And they did it with a portrayal of John Kerry's uncomfortable silence after being confronted with the price tag for the Democrats' green energy aspirations not at home, but abroad.
According to WSJ, the made-for-camera moment happened at a global climate summit in July, when there were no cameras around, when Kerry was handed what the paper described as "a bill" for aiding the developing world in its shift away from fossil fuels - enough to achieve the "green energy" to protect them, and the world, from Global Warming.
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David Starkey Absolutely OBLITERATES 'Religious Nutter' Greta Thunberg for Shaming Britain
Moses of Climate Change Boris Says Climate Crisis Is Worse than Covid and We Have to Listen to the Science
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared himself the Moses of Climate Change, and said that global warming is worse than Covid and therefore "we have to listen to the scientists."
Speaking at the Global Investment Summit at the Science Museum in London on Tuesday, the prime minister claimed that free-market capitalism, which produced the world's coronavirus vaccines, needed to be mobilised again to "face a challenge that is even bigger for humanity" and "a threat to our way of life that is ultimately far worse than COVID": alleged manmade climate change.
Referencing the COP26 climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, next month, the prime minister said: "In just a couple of weeks, the world will assemble in Glasgow. And I hope that many or all of you will be there.
"Because the lesson of COVID is absolutely clear. We have to listen to the scientists. We need urgent government action.
'Brown recovery' wipes out hopes that pandemic stimulus would drive climate spending
Governments in rich countries pledged last year to spend trillions of dollars to rescue their economies from the trough of the pandemic — and to channel that gusher of cash in ways that would aid the fight against climate change.
The climate change strategy largely failed.
More than 18 months later, mounting evidence shows that the spending did little to alter the trajectory that has the planet on a path toward blowing through global emissions targets. In fact, much of the stimulus spending was directed toward a "brown" recovery that pumped money into polluting industries and energy sources like coal, oil and natural gas. Nations unleashed their spending in a way that was open to all sectors, helping their incumbent industries rather than funding the promised transformation to a clean economy.
COP26: Former US President Barack Obama coming to Glasgow
FORMER US President Barack Obama is coming to Glasgow for COP26, it has been confirmed.
The 44th President will meet youth activists and address the threat of the climate crisis, as one of 13 high-level officials and cabinet members from the White House attending the summit.
It comes as President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday that he will attend the opening of the conference after participating in the G20 summit in Rome.
Hannah Hankins, spokeswoman for President Obama, said: "He will lay out the important progress made in the five years since the Paris Agreement took effect, highlight the leadership of young people around the globe, and urge more robust action going forward by all of us - governments, the private sector, philanthropy, and civil society".
Boris vows to make Britain 'the Qatar of hydrogen' and says 'green is good' as he woos business chiefs including Bill Gates at glitzy summit urging them to invest 'trillions' in tackling climate change
Boris Johnson vowed to make Britain the 'Qatar of hydrogen' today as he wooed businesses chiefs including Bill Gates at a glitzy summit - urging them to invest 'trillions' in tackling climate change.
The PM gave a speech and chatted to the Microsoft billionaire on stage as he asked industry leaders to commit funding to decarbonising the world economy - insisting 'green is good, green is right'.
He said the UK had a responsibility to act on cutting emissions as 'we were the first to knit the deadly tea cosy of CO2' - pointing to the 'big bets' the government is making on electric vehicles and gigafactories for battery production.
US Coal "Roars Back" Under Biden Unlike Trump
One of the biggest ironies to start this decade is the transition from fossil fuel generation to green energy has created a global energy crisis that is forcing the U.S., among many other countries, to restart coal-fired power plants monumentally ahead of the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere to prevent electricity shortages.
The virtue-signaling assault by the green lobby spearheaded by hapless puppet Greta Thunberg must beside herself as U.S. power plants are on course to burn 23% more coal this year, the first increase since 2013, despite President Biden's ambitious plan for a national grid to run on 100% clean energy by 2035.
The Collision of Two Opposing Green Destinies: COP26 and East Anglia's Fraud
Where one system increases deserts by spreading solar panels across the face of the earth, the other actually greens deserts by careful reclamation, desalination and water diversion programs, Matt Ehret writes.
With the world gearing up for Mark Carney's upcoming COP26 Climate Summit in the UK this October 31- September 12, 2021, it is worth asking: Will China and India collaborate with other nations of the multipolar alliance once more to save the world from a supranational world government?
You may be asking what I mean by "once more"?
Green Policies Return The World To Coal
There's scarcely a place in the modern world that will not be feeling the high cost and discomfort of a shortage of energy supplies and their increasingly soaring prices. Lebanon already is. Due to a shortage of oil, the two power plants that supply 40% of that country's electricity shut down. There is no electricity in Lebanon and will not be any for some days.
It's an extreme case, but even the United Kingdom, the EU, the U.S., and China are running up against diminishing ability to obtain the necessary energy supplies to keep things running smoothly. Some of the shortages are due to accidents, like the cutting of an undersea cable to the UK, but most are due to green policies and stupid political choices, ironically shutting down oil and gas-fired power plants and fossil fuel exploitation and transport at the demand of the greens, who grossly overestimate both global warming and the ability of air, sun and water to take their place.
Dozens Of Climate Activists Arrested After Storming Interior Department, Police Sustain "Multiple Injuries"
A group of activists protesting against fossil fuels were arrested after staging a sit-in at the Interior Department in Washington on Oct. 15.
Interior Secretary Haaland Says Wind Turbines May Soon Line US Coasts
Speaking at a wind industry conference held by the American Clean Power Association, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced plans by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to arrange seven offshore lease sales along the U.S.' coastlines by 2025, in line with the Biden administration's executive order, "Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad," which directed the Secretary of the Interior to "[double] offshore wind by 2030."
The proposed sites would include the coast of northern and central California, the coast of Oregon, the Gulf of Mexico, the Carolina Long Bay, the Central Atlantic, the New York Bight, and the Gulf of Maine.
The American Clean Power Conference at which Secretary Haaland spoke also featured remarks from Sen. Ed Markey (D.-Mass.) and various wind industry insiders, and was sponsored by GE Renewable Energy, Siemens Gamesa, Shell, Vineyard Wind, and other firms with a financial stake in wind power.
A Freezing Antarctic Winter Shatters Records
Antarctica just logged its coldest winter on record, with average temperatures hitting a blustery -78 degrees Fahrenheit. Individual temperatures hit as low as -144 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the coldest South Pole winter since records began in 1957.
The dramatically cold temperatures are part of what some scientists see as a larger cooling pattern in Antarctica. NASA published a study in 2015 which showed that the Antarctic ice sheet had gained billions of tons of ice each year for decades. That included a net gain of 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.
Honestly, we all need to be worried about Global Warming.
Delingpole: Prince Charles Is a Blithering Green Idiot
Prince Charles is a blithering green idiot. Obviously this is a headline that could have been written any time in at least the last 30 years. But someone needs to remind the toxic, airheaded nincompoop that he doesn't speak for all of us. And since no one is going to say this anywhere in the fawning, worthless and obsolete legacy media, I guess the job will have to fall to me…
Here is the Prattish Prince's latest idiocy. It's a BBC interview in which Charles effectively lends his royal imprimatur to eco-fascist groups such as Extinction Rebellion and their side project Insulate Britain.
Sure, he starts cautiously by gently chiding their methods: "It isn't helpful, I don't think, to do it in a way that alienates people."
But having got that neat little piece of arse-covering out of the way, he quickly flashes his true colours:
Asked if he sympathised with Greta Thunberg, the climate campaigner who has also criticised leaders for failing to act, he said:?"Of course I do, yes.
Hundreds of Miners Protest as EU Moves to Kill Coal Jobs in Name of Green Agenda
Hundreds of Bulgarian coal miners and energy workers staged a protest on Wednesday to demand government guarantees for their jobs amid bids by the European Union to close mines and reduce carbon emissions.
Buses carried protesters from across Bulgaria for the rally in downtown Sofia, where demonstrators chanted "We want jobs" as they marched to the headquarters of the government.
Bulgarian miners say the EU's timeframe for closing coal mining and coal extraction is too short and argue it shouldn't come at the expense of the bloc's poorest and most carbon-dependent regions.
Here is The Hidden $150 Trillion Agenda Behind The "Crusade" Against Climate Change
We now live in a world, where bizarro headlines such as the ones below, have become a daily if not hourly occurrence:
*TREASURY TO STUDY IMPACT OF CLIMATE ON HOUSEHOLDS, COMMUNITIES
*TREASURY LAUNCHES EFFORT ON CLIMATE-RELATED FINANCIAL RISKS
*BRAINARD: CLIMATE-SCENARIO ANALYSIS WILL HELP IDENTIFY RISKS
*BRAINARD: CLIMATE CHANGE COULD HAVE PROFOUND ECONOMIC EFFECTS
*MESTER: FED LOOKS AT CLIMATE CHANGE FROM VIEW OF RISKS TO BANKS
*FED IS TAKING THE RIGHT COURSE ON MONITORING CLIMATE CHANGE
*FED SHOULD CONSIDER CLIMATE-CHANGE RISK TO FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Now, in case someone is still confused, none of these institutions, and not a single of the erudite officials running them, give a rat's ass about the climate, about climate change risks, or about the fate of future generations of Americans (and certainly not about the rising water level sweeping away their massive waterfront mansions): if they did, total US debt and underfunded liabilities wouldn't be just shy of $160 trillion.
Finland Will Lobby The EU To Give Nuclear Power "Sustainable" Status
It looks as though Finland is starting to come back around to the idea of nuclear power - and that they plan on taking their advocacy for the clean energy to the European Union. The country will now lobby the EU for a "sustainable" label on nuclear power.
The EU's decision on whether or not nuclear is "sustainable" has yet to be made. Despite the fact that plants are emission free, "nuclear is currently considered only a low-carbon energy source due to emissions caused by mining and transport," Euractive wrote this week.
Finland's fifth nuclear plant is nearing completing after years of delays, the report notes. Nuclear remains an important energy source for the country, which has a target of being carbon neutral by 2035. Nuclear currently accounts for 30% of the country's power.
THE GREEN AGENDA OR HOW THIS ENERGY CRISIS IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS
The price of energy from all sources conventional is exploding globally. Far from accidental, it is a well-orchestrated plan to collapse the industrial world economy that has already been weakened dramatically by almost two years of ridiculous covid quarantine and related measures. What we are seeing is a price explosion in key oil, coal and now especially, natural gas energy. What makes this different from the energy shocks of the 1970s is that this time, it is developing as the corporate investment world, using the fraudulent ESG green investment model, is dis-investing in future oil, gas and coal while OECD governments embrace horrendously inefficient, unreliable solar and wind that will insure the collapse of industrial society perhaps as early as the next months. Barring a dramatic rethinking, the EU and other industrial economies are willfully committing economic suicide .
Wall Street's Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class
Last month, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced it had developed a new asset class and accompanying listing vehicle meant "to preserve and restore the natural assets that ultimately underpin the ability for there to be life on Earth." Called a natural asset company, or NAC, the vehicle will allow for the formation of specialized corporations "that hold the rights to the ecosystem services produced on a given chunk of land, services like carbon sequestration or clean water." These NACs will then maintain, manage and grow the natural assets they commodify, with the end of goal of maximizing the aspects of that natural asset that are deemed by the company to be profitable.
The EPA head shows who's really in charge in America
Michael Regan is the administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. His job makes him a subset of the Executive branch but you'd never know that from his threat to Congress: If the legislators don't give him the legislation he wants, he'd go ahead and do what he wants without them. This is a shocking usurpation of legislative authority but it's par for the course in Biden's Washington, D.C.
When our Founders drafted the Constitution, they were excessively concerned lest one branch of government gain disproportionate power, turning into a tyranny. The Constitution, therefore, spreads out power between the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial branches, with each institution checking the power of the two others.
Climate lockdown: UCL professor advocating lockdowns to combat "climate change"
Mariana Francesca Mazzucato, a professor at the University College London, has been advocating lockdowns for climate change. It may be unusual, but she is not alone in her views.
In an essay endorsed by establishment media, Mazzucato is pushing for draconian measures to curb what she says is the tipping point of climate change. She says if we don't take such dramatic interventions immediately, human civilization will come to an end, and so will the planet.
Under a "climate lockdown," as she calls it, governments would limit the use of private vehicles, ban the consumption of red meat and impose extreme energy-saving measures. Fossil-fuel companies will have to stop drilling, as well.
Record Cold/Winter Storm Brewing.
Hatred of Nuclear Tells You Climate Cult Isn't Really About Carbon
'They take too long to build!' That is the rallying cry of anti-nuclear activists everywhere when they run out of arguments against nuclear power stations.
So here's something to bear in mind. It took France just 12 years to decarbonise from the 1970s onwards, when it built 56 nuclear reactors. France's main objective back then was to secure energy independence by reducing its reliance on imported fossil fuels. The French still enjoy the fruits of this decision today, with over 70 per cent of their electricity coming from clean energy sources.
Today, with gas prices skyrocketing, climate change closing in on us and air pollution proving deadly, we in the UK arguably have more reasons than ever to follow France's lead.
What's more, nuclear technology is also better now than it was over four decades ago. Reactors are now much more efficient and, in theory, quicker to build. And, once a nuclear power plant is up and running, it can remain operational for over 60 years.
Insulate Britain Threaten to 'Unleash Hell' if Boris Johnson Fails to Meet Green Demands
The radical eco-extremist group Insulate Britain is reportedly planning to blackmail Prime Minister Boris Johnson with threats of unleashing "Hell" if the government fails to meet the group's climate demands.
The Extinction Rebellion (XR) splinter group is said to be planning another wave of sit-down motorway blockades on Wednesday, with the aim of causing as much disruption and embarrassment as possible.
Insulate Britain is allegedly aiming to have at least 120 of their far-left eco-warrior members arrested during the upcoming United Nations COP26 climate change summit, with the express purpose of shaming Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the world stage, according to the Mail on Sunday.
A reporter from the paper claimed to have infiltrated a meeting of the far-left group at St Pancras Church Hall in Central London.
Snow To Blanket UK As Rare Polar Vortex Collapse Could Spell Trouble For Power Grid
A sensation headline from UK's tabloid newspaper, Daily Star, sums up a possible rare weather event that could throw the UK into a more profound energy crisis. The headline states: "As gas supply chaos sends price sky-high a -10c polar vortex is heading our way..."
Meteorologists warn a stratospheric warming event could generate a polar vortex split that pours freezing weather into the country later this month or early November.
Doc's Encouraged To Not Treat Patients In The Name Of Climate Change
Doctors should think less regarding the health of their patients and more about the health of the planet, an editorial in the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) has urged.
The editorial, issued as part of a special edition devoted to the anticipated COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, says that medical treatment contributes greatly to "greenhouse gas emissions" and that this carbon footprint can be reduced if only "health professionals" can learn to reduce "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment."
Snow falls on Stevens Pass
People driving on Stevens Pass near got see snow Sunday morning.
The National Weather Service said a light amount of snow fell overnight. It doesn't stop there, another inch or two is expected throughout Sunday.
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) said it snowed across U.S. 2 highway. Anyone traveling up there is encouraged by WSDOT to be cautious.
Stevens Pass goes through the Cascade Mountains along the King and Chelan County border.
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Insulate Britain ringleader ADMITS he's a 'hypocrite' after being challenged over his own home that does NOT have the green measures he is demanding for the rest of UK
The ringleader of eco-fanatics Insulate Britain who have terrorised British road users in recent weeks has sarcastically admitted he is a 'hypocrite' who 'doesn't care' about insulation.
Liam Norton, 36, made the bizarre admission while being interviewed by talkRadio presenter Cristo Foufas on his failure to run an energy-efficient home on Saturday morning.
When asked by Foufas why the ardent eco-warrior has failed to insulate his own £360,000 London flat, Norton jokingly replies: 'Because I'm a hypocrite'.
Among Europe's dirtiest: 'Green' biomass power plant in Yorkshire burning 'renewable' wood emits MORE CO2 than UK's coal – report
A supposedly "carbon neutral" Drax biomass power plant is the UK's leading source of CO2 emissions, and belches out more harmful carbon and particulate matter than some of Europe's dirtiest coal plants, according to a new report.
Renewable energy firm Drax describes its plant in North Yorkshire as a "purely renewable" facility, boasting that it has slashed its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 90% since 2012. The plant burns biomass – pellets of compressed wood – and received £832 million ($1.13 billion) in direct government subsidies last year, on top of an estimated £258 million ($351 million) in carbon tax breaks.
First major winter blast of the season is set to bury parts of the Rockies from Montana to New Mexico under 30 inches of snow
A blockbuster snowstorm is set to bury parts of Rockies with areas from Montana to New Mexico receiving more than 30 inches of snow. Even Denver could see its first snowflakes of the season.
A potent, winterlike storm is forecast to spread from the Northwest and across the Rockies next week and deliver widespread accumulating snowfall that will be a welcome sight for snow lovers and an early-season boon to ski resorts. Snowfall totals could be measured in feet rather than inches.
Jordan Peterson: The collapse of our values is a greater threat than climate change
Climate Change is a Hoax Just Like Covid-19
Doctors Told To Cut Treatment To Tackle Climate Change
This is utterly criminal.
Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content
Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.
Why it matters: It's one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation.
Details: Google advertisers and publishers, as well as YouTube creators, will be prohibited from making ad revenue off content that contradicts "well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change," the company's ads team said in a statement.
Here we go: First mountain snowstorm likely next week
Here we go, winter lovers.
After an exceptionally mild and dry few weeks, it looks like a more winter-like pattern moves into Colorado starting this weekend, with perhaps a stronger storm bringing more widespread snow and chilly weather by the middle of next week.
The second storm will probably bring the mountains their first healthy snowfall event of this winter season. And no, we're not just talking about a dusting at the highest elevations.
For starters, there'll be two separate storms creating the winter-like weather, the first of which arrives this weekend.
The first storm arrives from the Southwest this weekend, and an accompanying cold front will drop temperatures across Colorado on Friday and Saturday. That'll lead to some mostly light snow for elevations at or above 10,000 feet this weekend, mainly across the western half of the state.
WHY CALIFORNIA'S MOVE TO BAN GAS-POWERED GENERATORS (AND LAWN EQUIPMENT) COULD LEAVE CALIFORNIANS IN THE DARK
"Excuse me," says your landscaper. "The mower's out of juice. Mind if I plugin?" You look from the immobile machine to your half-cut lawn. "Outlet's over there," you tell him. "But let's knock $20 off your fee? What are we up to now, 25 cents a kilowatt-hour?"
Welcome to the future. Welcome to California.
The state, committed to net-zero emissions by 2045, is moving to ban sales of gas-powered landscaping equipment as early as 2024. This is not the first attempt. Politicians tried and failed to do the same in 2003. Since then, though, more than half of homeowners in the state have swapped out their consumer-grade equipment for "zero-emission equipment" (ZEE), meaning, battery-powered weed whackers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chainsaws, and even lawnmowers.
BUST: Machine Built to Fight Climate Change Is A Failure
People have 'every right' to question climate projections: Newman
Former Queensland premier Campbell Newman says people have "every right" to question climate projections.
"The hysterical projections made ... 30, 34 years ago, exactly the same sounding sort of projections that we hear today," he told Sky News host Alan Jones.
"It's right and proper we question it."
COVID has Replaced Climate Change as the Religion of the Left
Religion is a belief system based on a combination of logic and faith, mostly beyond the realm of what can be proven scientifically. A dictionary definition is, "Religion is belief in a god or gods and the activities that are connected with this belief, such as praying or worshipping in a building such as a church or temple."
Or in simpler terms, religion can create order and meaning in a random and chaotic world. Religion is also strongly held and deeply personal, not something tossed aside based on the words of a government, politician, or celebrity.
For many, politics has become a religion and. as a centuries-old etiquette rule advises, "Never discuss politics or religion in polite company." Unfortunately, today, science has now become political and entered the realm of religion.
Siberia set for extreme winter deep freeze, Russian experts predict, as Europe faces energy shortages with cooler weather on way
One of Russia's top forecasters has warned that extreme weather is predicted to hit the Northern Hemisphere later this year, sparking concerns that it could worsen a deepening energy crisis setting in across parts of Europe.
Harsh conditions are predicted to hit Russia in early January, with snow in Siberia estimated to reach levels twice as severe as the average. On Monday, the meteorological center Phobos also reported that "snowdrifts almost a quarter larger than the norm" could sweep across Moscow.
In recent weeks, much of Western Europe has seen a rapidly growing energy crisis, with some parts of the continent experiencing a 250% increase in the price of gas for the heating and fuelling industry. Petrol stations in the UK running dry faster than they can secure new deliveries have caused severe delays and fights breaking out at refill forecourts.
South Pole posts most severe cold season on record, an anomaly in a warming world
Amid a record hot summer in large parts of Northern Hemisphere, beset by devastating fires, floods and hurricanes, Antarctica was mired in a deep, deep freeze. That's typically the case during the southernmost continent's winter months, but 2021 was different.
The chill was exceptional, even for the coldest location on the planet.
The average temperature at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station between April and September, a frigid minus-78 degrees (minus-61 Celsius), was the coldest on record, dating back to 1957. This was 4.5 degrees lower than the most recent 30-year average.
We first learned of this record through a tweet from Stefano Di Battista, who has published research on Antarctic temperatures. The legitimacy of Di Battista's information was confirmed by Richard Cullather, a research scientist at NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.
Homes may have gas cut off if they refuse to take part in hydrogen trial
Residents in one village will begin the pilot scheme by 2025 to help the Government assess whether hydrogen gas can be used as a low-carbon alternative for heating homes across the country.
Ministers insisted the powers to enter people's homes and switch off their gas would only be used as a "last resort" if the homeowners had refused to engage with any other options.
A consultation, which ended this week, suggests the Government will seek powers to allow gas distribution networks to enter homes if their owners do not wish to take part in the trial, in order to safely switch them off from the gas grid.
Current powers enable network operators to enter premises for a variety of purposes, including for suspected gas leaks or inspecting pipes and fittings.
German Wind Turbine Mysteriously Collapses One Day Before It Was Supposed To Officially Be Inaugurated
A massive wind turbine in the town of Haltern, Germany, collapsed just hours before it was set to be inaugurated this week.
The huge alternative energy device sported rotor blades at a height of 784 feet, according to a report by AP. It fell over, without warning, late on Wednesday this week.
The turbine was supposed to be officially launched the next day and had been hooked up to the power grid for over six months.
It's part of a larger effort in Germany to use renewable energy while the country attempts to transition not only away from fossil fuels, but away from nuclear.
Recall, Friday morning we wrote about a recently penned letter from professors from Oxford, Harvard and American University alongside a group of environmentalists, encouraging Germany to postpone their exit from nuclear power.
Greta Thunberg has 'nothing to say' on how to fix climate change
Activist Greta Thunberg has "nothing to say" on what to do about climate change, according to Sky News host Rowan Dean.
"She's got nothing to say about what is actually happening on climate change," Mr Dean said.
"She just simply says 'action, action, action' – the cry of every despot, every dictator, every communist, every socialist, every Marxist."
Flashback: There's a 'genuine fear of debate' about climate change: Alan Jones
There is a "genuine fear of debate" of the critical issue of climate change, and if we keep announcing policy "based on fear" we are in deep trouble, according to Sky News host Alan Jones.
"I have been around for a while, the greatest policy rubbish being dished up is this business about net-zero carbon dioxide emissions," Mr Jones said.
"I think the federal government know this net-zero talk is rubbish and what I have called for years an economic suicide note. But they are frightened of the Greens."
Flashback: New sun-driven cooling period of Earth 'not far off'
A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past
Lack of fresh water is now a global crisis. Water shortages mean food shortages, with hunger creating death tolls substantially exceeding those of the current Covid-19 crisis. According to the United Nations, some 800 million people are without clean water, and 40% of the world's population is impacted by drought. By one measure, almost 100 percent of the Western United States is currently in drought, setting an all-time 122-year record. Meanwhile, local "water wars" rage, with states, cities and whole countries battling each other for scarce water resources.
The ideal solution would be new water flows to add to the hydrologic cycle, and promising new scientific discoveries and technologies are holding out that possibility.
Science behind temperature changes that we've been told is 'shambolic'
Net-zero is a 'completely meaningless concept'
Yup, it's only September and it's snowing in Arizona
It's been a very active Monsoon 2021 across the state of Arizona, with many spots receiving several inches of rainfall over the past few months.
And while the monsoon may be coming to an end this year, it doesn't mean Mother Nature didn't have a couple more surprises up her sleeve.
Thursday morning, the National Weather Service tweeted out some surprising news. Snow was actually falling in eastern Arizona. IN. SEPTEMBER.
Yes, actual snowfall!
Powerful blizzard hits Northern Iceland
A deep cyclone with estimated pressure below 970 hPa is bringing intense snowstorms and blizzard conditions to northwest Iceland on September 28, 2021. Bad weather is expected to continue through Wednesday, September 29.
Blizzard conditions are expected in the north- and west parts of the country today, with a severe blizzard in the Westfjods and Strandir and severe to whole gales at Breidafjordur and on southern Snæfellsnes, according to the Icelandic Met Office (IMO).1
The office issued an Orange weather alert for Faxafloi - Southwest Iceland, Breidafjordur - Westnorthwest Iceland, Westfjords, and Northwest Iceland.
A Yellow alert was issued for Reykjavik - Capital Region, Faxafloi, Breidafjordur, Westfjords, Northwest Iceland, Northeast Iceland, East Iceland, and Central highlands - Uninhabited part of Iceland.
Northwest winds up to 90 km/h (56 mph) and considerable or heavy snow with blowing snow and poor visibility are expected in the NW.
Climate alarmists hype sea level rise by 2050, claim it could be 50 times greater than actual data
Climate alarmists are hyping articles that greatly exaggerate claims by California "experts" that the state's future coastal sea-level rise by 2050 could be 3.5 feet.
The coastal sea level rise prediction by the state's experts is based on the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change computer climate model scenarios. It ignores the coastal seal level rise tide gauge recorded at numerous California locations, which demonstrates that the sea-level rise remains consistent with past periods and is not increasing despite assertions.
Bye, Bye, Mr. Exxon Guy
Remember the Exxon lobbyist who got caught on tape admitting that the company had poured money into "shadow groups" in order to fight against climate science? He's officially out of a job. E&E News confirmed with Exxon on Tuesday that Keith McCoy, the lobbyist in question, was no longer at the company.
"Mr. McCoy no longer works for the company," Exxon spokesperson Casey Norton said in an email to E&E News. "This is a private personnel matter, and we will decline to comment further."
For those who need a refresher, investigators at Unearthed posed as recruitment consultants looking to hire a DC lobbyist for a major client and set up interviews with two then-Exxon employees (the other interviewee left the company before the exposé aired). The secret tapes were released in July, and McCoy's interview was far and away the more explosive of the two.
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Biden Is SLAMMED For Being Fake?
Extreme climate change activist Greta Thunberg condemned President Joe Biden at a climate change protest in Berlin on September 24.
Thunberg lashed at Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda and suggested that the President's speech is only meant to soothe far-left activists who want to pass climate change action.
"And now, as we move out of the pandemic, many are talking about using this as an opportunity for a green, sustainable recovery, whatever that means," she said. "And world leaders are talking about 'building back better,' promising green investments, and setting vague and distant climate targets in order to say that they are taking climate action."
'Climate hypocrites' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tour NYC in 'gas-guzzling SUV'
New Yorker hosts climate change extremist who advocates for 'intelligent sabotage'
The New Yorker hosted environmental activist and professor Andreas Malm on their podcast where he promoted "intelligent sabotage" and property damage as a way to stop climate change.
"Andreas Malm insists that the environmental movement rethink its roots in nonviolence and instead embrace 'intelligent sabotage,'" the description of the interview states.
In the podcast, Malm, who is a professor from Lund University, emphasized "a call for escalation, a call for the movement to diversify its tactics and move away from an exclusive focus on polite, gentle and perfectly peaceful civil disobedience."
"I am recommending that the movement continues with mass action and civil disobedience, but also opens up for property destruction," Malm said.
While Malm, who is a human ecology professor at Lund University does not dismiss peaceful demonstrations and does not condone hurting people, he did emphasize that destroying private property would not be "morally illegitimate."
'I don't want to shame Greta Thunberg, but…': Activist dubbed 'anti-Greta' by media RIPS INTO 'climate alarmism'
The media have invented the 'anti-Greta' label to portray her as an "evil right antichrist," but it only attracted more people to her ideas, Naomi Seibt, who says the human effect on climate change is vastly exaggerated, told RT.
Seibt calls herself a "climate realist" and bluntly rejects the term "climate change denier," which is another label used to describe her and her supporters by the opposing side. It implies that "we're just selfish and ignorant," but it's not the case, she pointed out.
"We're about being scientific skeptics and looking into more sensible ways to improve the environment to be more in line with our values when it comes to interacting with nature," the 19-year-old said.
It looks a much less radical stance than the one of 17-year-old environmental activist and mainstream media darling Greta Thunberg, who insists that mankind must urgently cut emissions to zero to avoid a catastrophic breakdown of the climate on Earth.
The Day of the Nitwits: Remember the Triffids? Well, the Green zealots are nearly as dangerous, argues PETER HITCHENS
Are we at the start of some huge and endless decline? Or is there really nothing to worry about?
Our current state reminds me of John Wyndham's brilliant novel The Day Of The Triffids, in which small, even silly or enjoyable, events turn out to be signs of an approaching nightmare.
Wyndham sets his story in a very normal modern Britain. At first, people laugh at the ridiculous walking plants on the newsreels.
At first, they gaze happily at the spectacular meteor shower illuminating the night sky. Far too late they grasp that these were the beginnings of an utter transformation in their lives.
Of course there are no Triffids. But think of them as a metaphor.
City of Boulder preparing for snow
The City of Boulder is preparing its residents for the winter season, more specifically, snow and ice.
The City of Boulder prioritizes clearing emergency routes, major streets, and access to hospitals and schools. Residential roads are usually last on the list.
Tucker slams late-night hosts over 'Climate Night'
Boris Johnson Reveals Why He Wants to Be Renamed in Honour of Ancient Greek God of North Wind
On Wednesday, Boris Johnson fully focused on global warming-related issues when addressing the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, where he warned that it was time for humanity to "grow up" and start tackling climate change.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is considering being renamed in honour of the Greek God Boreas. The moment came as BoJo talked about climate change at a UN General Assembly session in New York.
In one part of his address to the General Assembly on Wednesday, the PM praised the UK government's "Promethean faith in new green technology" to reduce greenhouse emissions.
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By Makia Freeman
THE STORY: Did you know there is already a Swedish credit card available which links all your transactions with your supposed carbon footprint?
THE IMPLICATIONS: Propaganda pushed about the purported danger of carbon and CO2 is dangerous, and can lead to the removal of our rights and freedom.
Coming Soon: Climate Lockdowns
Nigel Farage: Are we too reliant on wind power?
While Democrats Try To 'Kill Coal' In US, Asia Heads In The Opposite Direction
Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration are working towards an ambitious goal of eliminating coal-fired electricity and 'decarbonize' the US electric grid by 2035.
To meet such an aggressive deadline, House Democrats unveiled a $150 billion 'clean electricity' program to incentivize utility companies to phase out fossil fuels for clean energy. The Clean Electricity Performance Program, or CEPP, would reward utility that boost their percentage of electricity supplied to the grid from green sources - such as solar, wind and hydro, between 2023 and 2030.
S&P Global explains more about the program:
There will be 'a lot of scaremongering' in lead up to Glasgow climate conference: Bolt
'Not unusual': No wind causes energy price hike in Europe
The Global Warming Policy Forum's Energy Editor Dr John Constable says Europe's sustained high electricity prices are an indication of an "underlying health condition" in the energy sector.
In Europe, the wind stopped, seeing electricity prices around the continent rise dramatically, with the UK hit particularly hard.
Dr Constable told Sky News host Andrew Bolt this event is "not that unusual".
"This is now quite standard for us," he said.
BlackRock and Citi Get on Board the Climate Nazi Train
Psychopaths Trying to Suck All the Carbon Out of Atmosphere
Erasing The Dust Bowl
NOAA claims this past summer was the hottest on record in the US. In this video I show how their spectacularly false claim was contrived.
Europe energy prices spike as winds pause in stormy North Sea
Winds in the stormy North Sea stopped blowing, and Europe, which already lacks natural gas, found electricity markets surging. This sudden slowdown in wind-driven electricity production in the U.K. caused a sudden switch in the direction of regional energy markets as gas and coal-fired electricity plants were called to make up for the shortfalls.
Natural gas prices hit all-time highs and thermal coal, which had been shunned for its carbon emissions, has emerged from its long price slump as utilities are forced to use it to turn on their backup power sources.
This showed the precarious state that the region's energy markets face, heading into the long European winter. The price increase was seen mostly in the U.K., which relied on wind farms to eradicate net carbon emissions by 2050.
Permanent Rationing Begins
Replacement Immigration Continues Unabated, Now Due to "Climate Change" Hoax
Fifteen years on, Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth', the former VP's Oscar-winning film, has proved to be largely inaccurate tripe
Al Gore's climate change movie was hailed as revolutionary a decade and a half ago when it was released to much fanfare but, in the intervening years, the truths have, inconveniently, turned out to not be truths at all.
Fifteen years ago today, failed US presidential candidate, Al Gore, released what can be best described as a scare movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It'. The movie was a global hit and Gore won an Oscar; he also received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Gore had succeeded in making global warming sexy. Everyone wanted to get in on the act to show how eco-friendly they were, particularly celebrities. And everyone else had to sign up to the agenda because, as we still hear so often today, "the science is settled."
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Big chill for climate doom: Arctic Sea ice is expanding
Less than 10 years remain before the oft-claimed "tipping point" for the planet, but sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is the highest it's been in nine years, increasing more than 30% from last year, while the Antarctic's level is well above normal.
That's according to the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility's High Latitude Processing Center, pointed out climate-change skeptic Tony Heller.
He noted the Arctic Ocean gained a record amount of sea ice during the first week of September.
"Most years the Arctic loses ice, but this year ice extent has increased" more than 77,000 square miles, he wrote on Twitter, adding the news likely would not be reported by CNN, BBC News or the New York Times.
Meanwhile, the sea melt this summer was the lowest in 15 years, and the expanse of Antarctic sea is well above average.
Theory of annual rise in Earth's temperature due to climate change is now exhaustively DISPROVED
The release of the IPCC Climate Change 2021 report debunks claims of intense temperature increases. But prior to the report, some people expressed concern that authorities were manipulating daily temperature readings to push the global warming sham.
Francis Menton wrote in a July 2019 piece for the Manhattan Contrarian: "[When] not so many people are looking, the temperature adjusters have been beavering away in the bowels of their collections of data, continuing to send inconvenient readings of the past down the memory hole – and to 'adjust' the temperatures of the past down, and of the present up."
"Personal Carbon Allowances" Pushed To Fight Global Warming
The COVID pandemic offered an unprecedented excuse for want-to-be authoritarians to stifle liberty.
To fight disease, once unthinkable government controls abound. Entire economies have been shut down, businesses closed involuntarily, and people thrown out of work.
Contact tracing apps were invented to alert the user when exposed to someone with the virus, but which also kept a clear record of individual movements.
Vaccine mandates enforced through phone app-facilitated "passports" are now proliferating. Soon, continued employment or ability to participate in society freely may depend on proving one has received the jab.
Ok, Wesley. That's admittedly tough medicine, but it was necessitated as a public health measure to defeat a dangerous communicable disease. Once COVID fades away or becomes endemic like the flu, everything returns to normal. Right?
Greenland Pummeled By Snow One Month After Its Summit Saw Rain For The First Time
Just a month after rainfall was recorded for the first time ever at Greenland's highest point, the island is expecting up to four feet of snow from the remnants of Hurricane Larry — the rare tropical storm to stay intact so far north.
Hurricane-force gusts topped 100 miles per hour at Kulusuk Airport near Greenland's southeast coast. At Tasiilaq, the largest town in the region, sustained winds reached 55 miles per hour, with gusts of over 90.
The snow reached blizzard conditions at Summit Camp, a weather station at the island's highest point more than 10,000 feet above sea level, with winds and snow so heavy that visibility was minimal.
Biden declares 'code red' on climate change amid Arctic Sea ice EXPANSION… It's all a hoax
As President Biden toured damage from Hurricane Ida along the east coast last week, he did what all Democrat Marxists do: He exploited the disaster for political gain.
Major hailstorm drops rare softball-size hail near Appleton, Wisconsin
Softball-size hail fell just outside Appleton as severe thunderstorms pounded Wisconsin on Tuesday morning.
Russ Smith told the Wisconsin State Journal he was working at a construction site a couple of miles off of Appleton's north side when hail the size of a softball and baseball fell for a "solid two minutes."
"It was amazing watching it fall from the sky," Smith said. "Words can't describe what it looked like."
California's Top Grid Operator Asks Feds To Burn More Fossil Fuels To Avert Blackouts
California's power grid transition to renewable energy sources appears to be backfiring. The push into clean energy is not producing enough power to meet demand during hot summer days, and it's becoming harder for the Golden State to avoid rolling blackouts.
A stunning new revelation in the state's top grid operator, California Independent System Operator, filing to US Department of Energy (DoE), titled "Request for Emergency Order Pursuant to Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act," requested the federal government to declare an "electric reliability emergency" so it can use more fossil fuel power generation to prevent blackouts.
"An emergency order will allow the CAISO to dispatch additional generation that may be necessary for the CAISO to meet demand in the face of extremely challenging conditions including extreme heat waves, multiple fires, high winds, and various grid issues," the filing read.
IPCC: Atlantic Hurricanes/Tropical Cyclones Have Not Increased Since the Late-1800s
By Cap Allon
The IPCC's latest report (AR6) continues the claim that human CO2 emissions have caused earth's climate to warm–no shocker there. But the impacts this has had on Atlantic hurricane/global tropical cyclone activity may come as a surprise, at least to those who were duped by the narrative constructed over the past few decades. As NOAA/GFDL Senior Scientist Tom Knutson explains, global warming has had no impact on either storm frequency nor intensity…
Entire "climate change" statistical model is revealed as little more than junk science hoax
Biden officials trumpet how solar can provide nearly half of the nation's electricity by 2050
The Biden administration announced a blueprint Wednesday outlining how solar energy could produce nearly half of the nation's electricity by mid-century, part of its ambitious bid to address climate change.
The new Energy Department analysis shows how the United States can scale up production of solar panels, which now provide 3 percent of the nation's electricity, to 45 percent over the next three decades. It would entail the United States doubling its installed solar power every year for the next four years, compared with 2020, and then doubling it again by 2030.
The move, which would transform the nation's energy industry and infrastructure, shows how President Biden is determined to reshape the economy and cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in the face of staunch political opposition.
Climate change is causing animals to SHAPESHIFT: Warm-blooded creatures are evolving to have larger beaks, legs, and ears to better regulate their body temperatures as Earth gets hotter, study finds
UN Study Busts Democrats Narrative: Shows Decreasing Number of Natural Disasters, Climate Deaths in Last 10 years (Cartoon)
In a blow to the sky-is-falling crowd, a new United Nations study released Wednesday undercuts the notion of humanity being doomed by the ravages of climate change.
SPRING IN AUSTRALIA BEGINS WITH INTENSE POLAR COLD, AS GREENLAND ICE SHEET ENDS SEASON ABOVE 1981-2010 AVERAGE
Exceptional low temperatures, large hail, and heavy snow — the first week of spring is set to break a myriad of cold records across the Aussie continent.
Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecaster Bob Tarr said the cold front would bring a sharp shift to the cold, with temperatures plunging on Thursday.
And if the forecast holds true, continued Tarr, then a host of all-time September low temperature records are expected to fall–particularly in locales within that band of 'pink' & 'purple' streaking through central and southeastern regions, on Sept 4:
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A program that pays farmers not to farm isn't saving the planet
President Joe Biden wants to combat climate change by paying more farmers not to farm. But he's already finding it's hard to make that work.
His Agriculture Department is far behind its goal for enrolling new land in one program that has that goal, with participation being the lowest it's been in more than three decades.President Joe Biden wants to combat climate change by paying more farmers not to farm. But he's already finding it's hard to make that work.
His Agriculture Department is far behind its goal for enrolling new land in one program that has that goal, with participation being the lowest it's been in more than three decades.
As Afghanistan Falls Apart, Kamala Harris Talks Climate Change and Christmas Shopping in Singapore
If you've been watching in horror this week as President Biden has made a mess of Afghanistan, you will get no comfort from the following news about Vice President Kamala Harris.
While visiting Singapore as Afghanistan falls to pieces, Harris talked about climate change and Christmas shopping.


I was browsing the web and came across an article about "10 buried treasures you can actually find." This one was #10. A multimillionaire archaeologist and author has buried a treasure chest full of gold and other valuables somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. One of his books also includes this map with a poem/riddle. According to him, the location of the treasure appears somewhere on the highlighted portion of this map, and the poem tells you how to find it. The trick seems to be to figure out the starting point.
According to the man, who is still alive, people have successfully solved the first parts of the riddle and found themselves in the right place, but not been able to follow the remaining parts (there are nine clues in the body of the poem.) He states that people have come within 500 feet of the treasure.
In analyzing these clues, and others he has dropped from time to time in media interviews, I initially was "sure" the treasure was in or near Glacier National Park in Montana. However, I no longer believe it's in Montana, although it's not ruled out.
Yet more insight into fascinating things to occupy my time when I should be writing.


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Charges will not be filed against two Minneapolis police officers who fatally shot an armed black man last month.
A local ABC affiliate reported Monday that Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman chose not to press charges shortly after police released body cam footage of 31-year-old Thurman Blevins' death.
Freeman revealed the decision in a written statement after a planned press conference was taken over by outraged members of the community.
"When Mr. Blevins fled from the officers with a loaded handgun, refused to follow their commands for him to stop and show his hands, and then took the gun out of his pocket and turned toward the officers, Mr. Blevins presented a danger to the lives of Officer Schmidt and Officer Kelly," Freeman wrote.
Despite strong evidence showing the officers were justified, numerous residents stormed the stage at the press conference.
"Black people are tired of being hunted down like deer!" one person said.
The officers first encountered Blevins after receiving reports that an individual was firing a gun into the air.
Upon arriving at the scene, Blevins was seen with a firearm holstered on his side.
Blevins immediately fled the scene, refused to comply with the officers orders, and eventually reached for his gun during a foot pursuit.
The officers proceeded to fire 14 shots, hitting Blevins four times, according to an autopsy report.
Both the officers, Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly, have since been placed on paid administrative leave.
Blevins family had made reported calls for the officers to face criminal charges.
The incident bears resemblance to a similar police involved shooting in Chicago earlier this month in which another black man was shot for pulling a firearm on police.
Community members staged violent protests and accused the Chicago officers of racism and wrongdoing despite body cam footage showing the police were justified.


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HIPAA Compliant Patient Engagement - New Rules - Email and Text (SMS) Health Care Providers and Business Associates - Recorded Webinar
SPEAKER: Paul R. Hales
This webinar focuses on HIPAA Rules for transmitting informational email and text messages to patients over an electronic communications network.
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A simple appointment reminder is, by definition, PHI even though it may not contain diagnostic specific information. So are Happy Birthday wishes, reminders that a patient is overdue for a checkup or has an outstanding balance on a bill. You must know how you can maximize your use of key patient communication tools while protecting yourself and your organization from government penalties and patient lawsuits.
Health Care Providers have a mandatory "duty to warn" patients of risks associated with unencrypted email. A patient may refuse to receive unencrypted emails after being warned. Health Care Providers and Business Associates must strictly follow the patient's restriction.
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- Don't be the Provider or Business Associate that finds itself in serious trouble simply because you didn't follow the HIPAA Rules for unencrypted electronic communication with patients!
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The Upper Tribunal determined the validity of an estimated service charge demand in light of the decision of London Borough of Southwark v Woelke  UKUT 0349 (LC).
Southwark were entitled under the terms of their leases to demand service charges on an interim basis by making a reasonable estimate of the amount that would be payable in the following year. Southwark had served a service charge demand for the year 2012/13. At the time of service of the demand, Southwark contemplated that it would have to carry out some major works, however the cost of those works were not included in the estimated demand.
The tenant argued that the effect of London Borough of Southwark v Woelke  UKUT 0349 (LC) was that the failure to include the cost of the major works invalidated the service charge demand.
The First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) ("FTT"), applying paragraph 51 of Woelke, agreed with the tenant. Woelke was a case involving a lease in identical terms to that in issue in this decision, and paragraph 51 of Woelke stated that "if the appellant reasonably anticipates that its expenditure will include expenditure on major works…it is required to include that expenditure in its estimate. The omission of such expenditure is not consistent with the contract'".
The Upper Tribunal disagreed. It held that paragraph 52 of the decision in Woelke provided important clarification to the earlier paragraphs. Paragraph 52 states that "in normal circumstances, however, the only practical consequence of a failure to take account of major works in the estimate would be that the appellant would not be entitled to collect advance payments from the leaseholders which included any contribution towards the costs of those works".
The Upper Tribunal held that it must be immediately apparent whether or not a demand is valid. The validity of a demand cannot depend on later events, such as a decision to carry out major works. The effect of the FTT's decision was that it would become necessary to hold an enquiry about the degree of fixity of the landlord's intention to carry out works at the date of the demand. That could not be correct. Paragraph 51 of Woelke did not state that a demand that did not include an estimate of all expenditure would be invalid, merely that the consequences set out in paragraph 52 would apply.
This case provides some clarity on the decision in London Borough of Southwark v Woelke  UKUT 0349 (LC) although its application is likely to be limited.


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The Water Signs are called such because they have a cold and wet nature, like the prototypical Water Element. They bear many characteristics in common, such as their nurturing, emotional and imaginative natures. People born into this group tend to be sensitive or even psychic, and are often very magnetic.
Water Sign people tend to be very sensitive to mood altering substances, and generally have more of a tendency to addictive and codependent behaviors than members of the other sign groups.
The Water Signs were originally known as the Cancer Trigon. The three signs belonging to this Trigon are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. A Trigon, as defined by the ancients, is a group of signs that share the same elemental nature and are positioned at the angles of an equilateral triangle when they are measured in the circle of the Zodiac.
People born with the Sun in these signs will tend to adapt quickly to their environments, and will usually act in ways that protect them emotionally. Unless they were born at a time during which the planets weighted the horoscope to other Elemental Trigons, people born under the Element of Water have the ability to draw the attention or interest of others without much effort on their parts. They are often hurt easily, but don't tend toward displays of anger.
Every sign of the Zodiac is an individual entity, and has characteristics that it doesn't share with other signs, even the other members of their Elemental Trigon. These differences can be distinguished by the Qualities to which they belong.
Cancer is the Cardinal Sign of the Water Signs, and consequently is the most leadership-oriented sign of the group. A Cancer person has the "common touch" that knows others' needs and how to fulfill them. They are consciously aware of their need for both emotional and material security, and "wear a mask" to protect their tender inner natures. They are often very popular, but have trouble with their cyclically changing moods.
Scorpio is the Fixed Sign of the group, and seeks stability. They tend to keep their intensely passionate natures hidden, are extremely loyal, and are disciplined, courageous and insightful. When angered, they tend to be vengeful.
Pisces is the Mutable Sign of the group, and is very adaptable. Pisces people want to realize their ideals, and are intuitive, dramatic, helpful and wonderful listeners. They tend to have difficulty with finding the stability they need to thrive.
Because of the "perfect" harmony and balance of the equilateral triangle, signs belonging to the same element are considered to work in harmony. Cancer should be a good match for Scorpio or Pisces, but there are so many other factors in the horoscopes of individuals, these archetypal ideas are more like guidelines than laws of nature. The signs of the Moon and the planets at the time of birth can, in extreme cases, leave the Sun's sign as the only factor in the chart representing the Water Element.
Nevertheless, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces generally do well with one another. Scorpio tends to be quieter and more serious than the others, whereas Pisces is less dependable and values relative truth and imagination. The Cancer will often try to care for someone to the point of possessing or smothering them. These are the most common points that cause members of this Trigon to rub each other the wrong way.
Water signs are security conscious, and cope with it in different ways. The Cancer considers material possessions and others as the source of security, whereas Scorpio finds it in strength, loyalty and the acquisition of power. Pisces seeks security through others, and fears betrayal, although their own loyalties may change from time to time.
They are generally said to be compatible with the Earth Signs, because the element of Earth can contain Water. The ancients defined it a little differently; the Water Signs are cold and wet, while the Earth Signs are cold and dry; they have fundamentally identical and balancing properties.
In other words, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces usually get along very well with Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo. Again, this is a general idea based on the elemental theme of the Zodiac signs; sometimes Taurus may be annoyed by the never-ending conversations of Pisces, or Scorpio may be ready to take action, but frustrated by Capricorn's patience.
Generally one can say that Water Signs are harmonious, and tend to strike an easy balance with the Earth Signs, when looking at the Sun Sign as a guide to astrological compatibility.


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Nova Scotia Legal Aid & Coronavirus (COVID-19)
March 16, 2020 /in News /by Lisa Stokkeskog
NOTICE TO CLIENTS/APPLICANTS/PUBLIC/STAKEHOLDERS
The Nova Scotia Legal Aid Commission has put in place measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to protect the health of Nova Scotians working in and visiting Legal Aid Offices across the Province. Please review the information below regarding Legal Aid Offices. Also included below is general information as well as information received regarding courts and correctional facilities.
On March 15, 2020 the Premier directed that anyone who has travelled outside of Canada must self-isolate for a period of 14 days upon their return to Nova Scotia.
The Premier also suggested that any public servants that can work from home should have plans in place for their work.
For information on COVID-19 and tips for reducing the spread of this virus and other respiratory illnesses, please visit novascotia.ca/coronavirus/
These safety measures are being made with the guidance of public health officials and the Province and will be reassessed regularly to ensure plans are in place to limit the spread of the virus.
We ask that you be patient when contacting Legal Aid and to expect delays in having your call or email returned. As a result of the changes in service due to the virus, there will be a large increase in the volume of calls and emails which staff must handle.
Considering the communications from the Premier, where possible Nova Scotia Legal Aid employees will be working from home, but all offices will remain open and responsive, and court appearances will be covered.
Appointments with Legal Aid will be held by telephone or video if possible. For those clients without easy access to a phone, considerations will be made.
Anyone with virus symptoms, or who have travelled outside of Canada, should not visit a Legal Aid Office and should contact the office by telephone. Contact information for Legal Aid Offices across the Province can be found here: https://www.nslegalaid.ca/legal-aid-offices/
If you wish to apply for legal aid, you can complete an application online from our website at: https://www.nslegalaid.ca/online-application/. With an expected increase in the volume of online applications, please be patient in waiting to hear from Legal Aid regarding your application.
Some court matters will be done by telephone or video. In most cases clients will not be required to appear in Court, as lawyers can appear on your behalf. If you are a Legal Aid client and have an upcoming court matter, contact your lawyer regarding your court date if you have not already heard from them. Court directives are expected to continue to evolve so please watch Twitter or go to The Courts of Nova Scotia website at https://www.courts.ns.ca/ for current information, and contact your lawyer to determine next steps.
Telephone Duty Counsel will continue to be available for individuals arrested or detained by police. Individuals who are in custody and wish to access this service should advise the detaining officer.
All outreach into communities by Legal Aid staff will be suspended until further notice. Please contact the nearest office if you need assistance.
Please visit our website at https://www.nslegalaid.ca/ for information regarding our services.
Nova Scotia Legal Aid employees will not be attending committee and other meetings in person.
Lawyers who are representing clients on Certificate will be notified by their local Legal Aid Offices regarding practices being put in place regarding Certificates and payment of accounts.
Please visit The Courts of Nova Scotia website at https://www.courts.ns.ca/ for current information.
Counsel or members of the public who have travelled internationally within the last two weeks, or are experiencing symptoms of the coronavirus, should not visit a courthouse.
Individuals who are due in court who have travelled recently or are experiencing symptoms should contact their lawyer or the Court to seek instructions from the presiding judge in their case.
General and Special Time Chambers matters in the Supreme Court (including the Family Division) will be conducted by telephone, unless cross-examination of a witness is required. The Supreme Court is also considering what other matters may be dealt with via alternative arrangements, such as video- and tele-conferencing. Safe distancing will be practised in cases that go ahead in person.
All upcoming jury trials in the Supreme Court be postponed for a period of 60 days. This applies to all jury trials that have not yet commenced in court. The situation will be re-evaluated after the 60-day period.
Members of the public who have received a jury summons requiring them to come to court for jury duty within the next 60 days, and who are not presently sitting on a case, are officially released from that summons.
Jurors presently participating in a jury trial, are required to report to court as usual. Anyone exhibiting signs of fever, cough or flu-like symptoms should contact the Court immediately to seek further instructions from the judge presiding over their case.
All civil weddings at courthouses are cancelled. Individuals looking to get married outside a courthouse can find a list of Justices of the Peace who perform wedding ceremonies on the Department of Justice website at https://novascotia.ca/just/Court_Services/peace.asp
Communal water jugs and disposable cups will no longer be provided in the courtrooms. Instead, counsel and their clients will be allowed to bring their own individual water bottles, which they must take with them or dispose of at the end of the proceedings.
Please visit Correctional Services on the Department of Justice's website at https://novascotia.ca/just/Corrections/ for current information.
Nova Scotia's correctional facilities will be closed to all visitors until further notice, effective immediately.
Lawyers who need to speak with their clients, who are in custody in correctional facilities, should contact the facility after noon on Monday, March 16, to arrange alternative methods of communication.
During this time, inmates will be able to make extra phone calls.
These public health safety measures apply to the Nova Scotia Youth Centre in Waterville, and the Province's 4 adult correctional facilities: (1) Cape Breton Correctional Facility in Sydney; (2) Central Nova Correctional Facility in Dartmouth; (3) Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Priestville, Pictou Co.; and, (4) Southwest Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Yarmouth.
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