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Comment on Improving calculations of energy return on investment. by Art Hunter

Art Hunter — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:14:00 +0000

In reply to Luis Gutierrez. Yes, the more people that read and understand, the better.

Comment on Improving calculations of energy return on investment. by Luis Gutierrez

Luis Gutierrez — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:54:18 +0000

Improving Calculations of Energy Return on Investment
Charles A. S. Hall & Graham Palmer, Nature Energy, 10 January 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01696-3
https://rdcu.be/d5Q5A
https://canadiancor.com/171875-2/

Can I republish this article in my journal, with proper attribution?

Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD
Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
https://www.pelicanweb.org
[email protected]

Comment on List of emails for Canadian Members of Parliament and Senators (2021). by T Fisher

T Fisher — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:26:03 +0000

Trump reply. immediate: Remove duty free limit to returning Canadians using road access to cross border. Apply 25% duty to everything they have. Not applied to air, boat or train travel since that isn’t a source of quick cross border shopping. This will almost shut down cross border shopping by residents of Canada. It will kill commerce in Point Roberts, Blaine, Lynden, Bellingham and area, and parts across Canada with similar situations. This will be sad and not the way we want to treat our neighbours. However this would be a reply to far more severe attacks that would hit our economy if Trump applies his 25% tariff on all we ship south.

Comment on List of emails for Canadian Members of Parliament and Senators (2021). by Terrance Fisher

Terrance Fisher — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:22:46 +0000

Maybe time to think disrespect. Come Jan 20 and beyond any steps to harm Canada through duty tariffs or other economic means by Trump government, remove the American Flag from school gyms and public buildings, inside & out, at YVR & all airports, private & public displays of same anywhere. By no means damage the flag, fold it up neatly & store respectfully in reserve for sanity and respect of our national sovereignty to return. This would send a powerful message south where respect of their national flag is very important. The only places it should fly at that time in Canada is the US Embassy & American Consulates.

Comment on List of emails for Canadian Members of Parliament and Senators (2021). by Terrance Fisher

Terrance Fisher — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:21:15 +0000

Comment on James Howard Kunstler | A Disturbing and Provocative Viewpoint on Breaking through the Fog of Unreality | 2024-07-10 | CACOR Live by Karl Dehrmann

Karl Dehrmann — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:19:14 +0000

Jim can be a bit abrasive for modern sensitivities, but I find him refreshing, even if I don’t agree with him 100%. I think his point regarding climate change was just that:

1. There have been large changes in climate that predate human existence and industrialization and perhaps the complexity of how those systems (and negative feedbacks) work is beyond our current climate models.

2. Fossil fuel consumption tracks economic productivity almost 1:1. Because humans are unwilling to become voluntarily poorer, we will not collectively volunteer to reduce our consumption. Further, as geologic constraints limit the production rate of fossil fuels, our ability to respond to climate change meaningfully or with technological solutions (solar panels, electric windmills, battery banks) will be reduced and then go away.

Comment on James Howard Kunstler | A Disturbing and Provocative Viewpoint on Breaking through the Fog of Unreality | 2024-07-10 | CACOR Live by ChetT

ChetT — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 23:18:26 +0000

Is it just me or did it seem like almost every questionnaire felt the need to describe their scientific credentials and absolute opinions regarding the “climate crisis” before allowing the poor, ill informed Jim Kunstler, to even defend his viewpoint.
In case he wasn’t clear I think Jim was simply stating that, after the coming collapse of complexity, all of these fanciful hi-tech solution being proposed by the COR et al. will die on the vine as humanity has to figure out the new paradigm of existence.

Comment on List of emails for Canadian Members of Parliament and Senators (2021). by Victor Hendricken

Victor Hendricken — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:04:01 +0000

Bank of Canada Interest Rates and Charter Banks’ Mortgage Rates.
It seems to me that bank mortgage rates are at the heart of inflationary pressure. Charter banks make an extraordinary volume of profit, benefitting from high residential mortgage rates. It will take an act of courageous wisdom for Government of Canada to control the flow of cash from ordinary citizens (i.e. middle class) to Charter Bank profits. An Act of Parliament could establish a fixed upper limit on residential mortgage rates of, say, 3 to 4 percent, independent of Bank of Canada lending rates. This would help level out the so-called housing crisis by allowing more middle class folks to purchase and possibly slowing down or eliminating housing profit grabs by individuals and corporations.
Do you have the political will to radically alter the system? Do you want to win the next election? Do you want to prove that Government works for the middle class?
Kind regards,
Victor Hendricken
According to Governor Tiff Macklem and Carolyn Rogers, Senior Deputy Governor, Shelter price inflation remains high, driven by rent and mortgage interest costs, and is still the biggest contributor to total inflation.

Comment on Paul Beckwith |Global Tipping Points: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | 29 May 24 13:30 EDT | CACOR Live by Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:42:44 +0000

Very interesting and enlightening. Charlie Hall

Comment on “If Global Warming is so Bad, Why aren’t scientists doing something about it?”Alan Emery by Claude Buettner

Claude Buettner — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:27:25 +0000

As of this writing Alan Emery is not on the CACOR YouTube channel even though he has spoken several times to CACOR pre-Zoom. Maybe it’s time to get him on the schedule of CACOR Live.