Trump Scaling Back EPA Climate Efforts

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Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Trump is fulfilling his promise to remove the burden of intrusive EPA climate regulation on the US economy. But even more drastic action to curtail EPA activities is in the pipeline. U.S. EPA staff told to prepare for Trump executive orders: sources By David Shepardson, Timothy Gardner and Richard […]

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February 15, 2017 at 01:17PM

Kelloggs sells Social Justice Cereal, calls half the population names and posts $53m loss

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The new marketing move by Kelloggs to insult half its customers doesn’t seem to be working out too well. Last year Kelloggs jumped into politics by loudly cancelling advertising on Breitbart. Breitbart responded with the DumpKelloggs petition, and 430,000 people pledged never to buy Kelloggs again.

The company has now reported a $53 million dollar loss in the fourth quarter. It’s shutting down 39 distribution centres, potentially sacking 1,100 workers. Kelloggs share prices are back to where they were a year ago, but Kraft Heinz is up 31%, and Post is up by 37%. Hey, but it could be a coincidence.

To get some idea of the depth of the goodwill crater left by the Kelloggs political bomb, check out Chiefio’s Bye Bye Kelloggs response last December. He won’t give a trigger warning, but tells people who need one to “get out now”. I’ve picked a tamer paragraph:

 Dear Kellogg’s:

We, the Average Joe and Average Jane have put up with this Protest Shit to the absolute limit, and we were pushed past that. It’s now broken. That means full on war. Yes, you have a pissed Germanic-Celt in your grill. I’ll “forgive and forget” in […]

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February 15, 2017 at 12:51PM

Polar bear habitat update for Canada at mid-February

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Mid-February is the tail end of the winter fast for polar bears. Sea ice is approaching it’s maximum global extent but local maximum extents may vary. Most of the sea ice in Canada is locked in already but two regions still vary at this time of year: the Labrador Sea off Labrador and Newfoundland – where polar bears come to feed on an abundance of newborn harp seals – and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where polar bears have not been spotted in more than 60 years.

There is almost certainly enough ice for harp seals to give birth in the Gulf this year, if the ice holds (despite some premature hand-wringing by seal biologists). There is more ice in the Gulf and off Newfoundland this year than there was in 2013 (see map below).
Compared to 2015 at this date, courtesy CIS:

And to 2014, a couple of days earlier:

But in 2013, even by the 16 February, there was very little ice on the Great Lakes and even less sea ice off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence than there is in 2017.

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February 15, 2017 at 10:40AM

Climate Science “A Glassy-Eyed” Cult” – Guardian

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There’s an excellent article by the Guardian’s science editor (yes you read that right) which is highly relevant to Paul’s recent articles on the Bates/Karl scandal and the possible Lamar Smith enquiry. The author, Hannah Devlin, has a PhD in biomedical imaging and has only been at the Guardian since 2015. I was going to […]

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February 15, 2017 at 08:39AM