Greg Blee

Will occasionally stop in and check this account, reply to DMs, and scout out good people to follow on B'sky. But my personal data is downloaded, and now I'm outta here for platforms less ideologically biased. #sayonara

Canadian Oil Companies Should Get Their Hands Out Of Our Pockets My pockets. Your pockets. No more shifting risk from the private sector to the public sector. The myth of the carbon tax that stalled CNRL's Jackpine mine oil sands project. markhamhislop.substack.com/p/canadian-oil…

@PeterDClack Imagine having an energy source we don’t fight wars over. Where, once you have the infrastructure in place, the energy just arrives for free, and you don’t have to buy it or transport it.

Have we really gambled the entire world economy on a statistical rounding error? CO₂ is a single trace gas at 427 parts per million. Its effects do not increase exponentially, as the warming crisis narrative seems to overlook. The warming effects of CO₂ are actually logarithmic, as parts of its bandwidth become saturated or overloaded. Each additional unit has a diminishing impact. There are endless examples of warming trends that were not caused by CO₂, such as the Roman and Mediaeval warm periods during the 11,700 years of the current Holocene interglacial period. This 'control knob' scenario cannot be compared with the massive, linear influence of a world dominated by the oceans and ocean currents. The well understood properties of water, ocean currents and clouds ultimately dominate the earth's dynamic biosphere and all life within it. It's well established that CO₂ is not the root cause of the ongoing Late Cenozoic Ice Age - and the recurring glacial cycles and climate spikes over the last 2.58 million years. The oceans are truly vast. They cover 71% of the world's surface area to an average depth of 2.3 miles and hold 96.5% of all water. They also contain 91-93% of all the world's retained heat energy, the great driver of ocean currents. Water is also 1,000 times denser and heavier than the air. This massive volume of water is the de facto lungs of the earth, containing 86% of the entire carbon reservoir (the atmosphere retains only 1-2%). The oceans are also the world's great air conditioning unit and the heartbeat of all life. Ocean currents have warmed Northern Europe for hundreds of millions of years; one round trip takes 1,000 years for a single parcel of water. The flow of warm waters to the north prevents most of northern Europe having a climate like Greenland. The oceans effects on the climate we experience day-to-day are overwhelming. There's a hundred times more water vapour in the air than CO₂, a trace gas at 427 parts 'per million'. Water vapour dominates the world's atmosphere, reaching 4% over the mid latitudes and responsible for clouds, storms, rainfall, humidity and snowfall. Clouds permanently cover around 67% of the world's surface, reflecting incoming shortwave radiation from sunlight yet trapping outgoing longwave infrared radiation. They are a unique cooling parasol and warming blanket at the same time. Solar radiation, orbital cycles, oceanic thermohaline circulation and water vapor dictate earth's endlessly changing climate - largely independent of CO₂. Oceanic heat content is the primary driver that dictates how much water vapor is released, rather than the air temperature alone.

@jessiecatherine @snehduggal @Thetrilliumca Problem solved, Doug Ford style!

NEW from @snehduggal Ontario Health is no longer proactively releasing figures on hallway health care thetrillium.ca/news/health/ha… via @Thetrilliumca

Honestly, I'd like to see that price cap for cars that qualify for the $5000 rebate at $40,000 not $50,000. Let's have some real competition. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

@nationalpost Gee, this information from a US-owned publication. Suspect. We should instead buy American jets that could be bricked on a madman's whim?

The Gripen is less capable, more expensive and still reliant on U.S. production, writes Richard Shimooka nationalpost.com/opinion/richar…

@CDNEnergyCentre ... or at least until the collapse of civilization due to climate catastrophe. Seriously, folks, how do you produce this stuff and still look at your own kids?

Alberta's oil sands can provide generations of energy security. #TBT

@Itsfoss I used to use Firefox, because it's an alternative to chrome dominance. It blocked most tracking, but it didn't keep me from being fingerprinted. Switched to Brave, which does randomize my fingerprint.

Comment your pick! 🐧💯

@LLBiggers No, I think I'll stay grounded in what's really happening. Cherry-picking a specific graph won't cut it. The insurance industry is a hard-nosed, reality-based barometer, and you'll notice that your insurance rates are going up (if you can even get insurance where you live).

I’m leaving climate fear behind. Join me!

Few Canadians are paying attention as Senate committee approves creating government power mandating that virtually any site - social media, AI, search - require age verification under threat of court-ordered blocking in Canada. Bill S-209 about far more than pornography sites.

@Schwalm5132 @camhigby Wow, that's some far-out take. I rather think people see a lot of horrible things going on, get angry at their government that's enabling it, and rise up. Does some group pick a time and place? Yes. But buddy's paranoid take is ridiculous. It's citizen action.

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them. BUCKLE UP ALL WILL BE REVEALED Each area of the city has a signal or several signals. Let’s start with a screen recording of all members of the south side group to start.

What we must do immediately: 1) End the use of fossil fuels 2) Build massive amounts of solar & wind 3) Electrify everything 4) Localize 5) Conserve 5) Find solutions for the last hard stuff (planes, cement) 6) Stop cutting down forests #ActOnClimate buff.ly/3r2I3Ee

I just called @WIRED to delete my online login, after the hack. I've had zero luck with their login system, and gave up on a digital subscription a year ago ... but they still managed to leak my email. Pity, it's a great magazine but I guess I'll be reading it at the library now.

@condenast, you're not accepting DMs so I have to ask publicly. My Wired login was leaked in your latest hack. Were you going to let me know? It's been three months now.

Still not a peep from @condenast about my breached login.

I just learned my @WIRED login was exposed in the recent @CondeNast hack. Which happened in September, and still not a peep from Conde Nast. Are they hoping I'll just shrug and forget it?

It's profound and sad our Canadian Health Minister must join physicians to state that the health advice from the United States government can no longer be trusted and isn't reliable. We have lost a trusted partner in health and science. @MarjoriePLC thestar.com/news/canada/he…

Historian in me knows the Trump national security strategy document will go down as one of the great betrayals of the free world and all those responsible for it remembered in shameful ignominy.

If you’re keeping track at home, Trump admin has cancelled: - Jobs Report - Inflation Report - GDP Report I’m sure everything is just fine.

🚨BREAKING: Indian Ivanka has been SUSPENDED.