Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE****

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Co-founding member of the @calgaryclimatehub.ca & host of the #ClimateLens podcast. Posts are my own. #TalkClimate: you're not alone, you're in the majority. #yyc #ClimateChange #ClimateSky

unsolicited dm stuff about a Blue Sky community badge
Trump as Nero fiddles while America burns around hum, saying "Canada's wildfires are to blame!"
Uncle Sam sits atop a burning Earth surrounded by smoke belching oil and gas factories, says "you mind if we ignore your climate crisis" to which the Earth retorts "you mind if I smoke?"
graph detailing how Calgarians always used to breathe only around 12 hours of smokey air per year and are now regularly in the 100s
Calgary smoke hours show dramatic hockey stick curve heading into the 2020s and beyond
Calgary smoke hours showing hockey stick styled growth
text message to me purporting to be from the Alberta government but contact name reads "traystrick@yahoo.com"
Apocalyptic Canadian wildfire scene with headline "MORE PIPELINES = MORE THIS"
Canadian wildfire scene with phrase "more pipelines = more this"
WIKIPEDIA DEFINITION FOR FLOOD THE ZONE
Cowboy Carney of the Neoliberal Party (with definition)
Cowboy Carney of the Neoliberal Party (with definition)
Calgary AQHI at 8/10, meaning high risk
Calgary AQHI at 8/10, meaning high risk
Calgary AQHI at 8. Not good
Calgary AQHI at 7 out of 10, which is the low end of high risk
Warning label for bad climate journalism
Image 1 'Art of the Deal' cover parody reads: “TRUMP - HISTORY’S BIGGEST LOSER.” A red banner across the top reads, “Huge loser to both Iran and algae and that’s just this week.” At the bottom, a quote reads: “History will judge Trump on his words, deeds and accomplishments, such as they are. To say it won’t be kind is as huge an understatement as has ever been stated.” Image 2: Trump's near empty State Fair
In which I respond to another witless comment with "Your comment ensures Facebook's algorithm will spread the above image & message to more and more people. Thanks for your participation."
Lame meme attributing lame (and bigoted) words to Morgan Freeman followed up with a Youtube video of Freeman calling Trump a felon
'Art of the Deal' cover parody reads: “TRUMP - HISTORY’S BIGGEST LOSER.” A red banner across the top reads, “Huge loser to both Iran and algae and that’s just this week.” At the bottom, a quote reads: “History will judge Trump on his words, deeds and accomplishments, such as they are. To say it won’t be kind is as huge an understatement as has ever been stated.”
People’s MOU Day of Action” event in Calgary, details available at this link: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/a_people_s_mou. Above is an FBook exchange where one fella says "Tell you what,when you prove that you’re not going to have anything that’s not petroleum based,I’ll be there!" to which I respond "I notice the top post on your feed is from "grandkids are wonderful""
“Warning: This fun imagery grossly distorts the danger climate change poses to the Earth and everybody on it.”
“Warning: This fun imagery grossly distorts the danger climate change poses to the Earth and everybody on it.”
Screenshot of a news article preview showing people cooling off in shallow water beneath the Eiffel Tower during a heatwave. A large red banner has been added over the image with the text: “Warning: This fun imagery grossly distorts the danger climate change poses to the Earth and everybody on it.” Below the image, the headline reads, “European temperatures soar with heat set to break UK, French records,” with a summary stating that a heatwave in Europe is expected to break June temperature records in the UK and France. The source is ABC News.
Quote: “Nature-based Solutions sound a lot like a convenient repackaging of familiar calls to protect nature, for our own sake and for the sake of the planet. What sets Nature-based Solutions apart, however, is the systematic approach that it demands and its multiple benefits for people, our economy, for Indigenous reconciliation, and for human well-being. These benefits include investments in local trades, creation of jobs, and educational opportunities.” - Stephen Legault, Highwatermark Strategy & Communications
CBC article: "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism""
Image of Mark Canrey plus content: "Saying we have to expand our reliance on fossil fuels so that we can finally afford to start moving away from reliance on fossil fuels is like saying that we have to sell a lot of cigarettes to children so that we can use the profits to finally afford to build a new children’s cancer hospital."
Against backdrop of apocalyptic Canadian wildfire scene, Carney with cowboy hat, Liberal logo altered to read NeoLiberal with wiki definition: "Neoliberalism is a political and economic ideology that champions free-market capitalism, deregulation, free trade, and the reduction of government spending. It emphasizes individual liberty, privatization, and limited state intervention as the primary drivers of societal progress and wealth generation
Carney with cowboy hat, Liberal logo altered to read NeoLiberal with wiki definition: "Neoliberalism is a political and economic ideology that champions free-market capitalism, deregulation, free trade, and the reduction of government spending. It emphasizes individual liberty, privatization, and limited state intervention as the primary drivers of societal progress and wealth generation
Carney with cowboy hat, Liberal logo altered to read NeoLiberal with wiki definition: "Neoliberalism is a political and economic ideology that champions free-market capitalism, deregulation, free trade, and the reduction of government spending. It emphasizes individual liberty, privatization, and limited state intervention as the primary drivers of societal progress and wealth generation"
Rude post from a fella calling himself Peter in Vancouver, very angry I would dare call out PM Carney's increasingly bad policy
Apocalyptic Canadian wildfire scene with headline "MORE PIPELINES = MORE THIS"
Apocalyptic Canadian wildfire scene with headline "more pipelines = more this"
Dude says “please stop” and cowboy hat wearing Carney says “no”, pan back and we see Carney is roasting the earth over a campfire
Dude says “please stop” and cowboy hat wearing Carney says “no”, pan back and we see Carney is roasting the earth over a campfire
Avi Lewis post reads: “PM Carney seems ready to suspend environmental regulation in Canada under the illusion that he can buy political peace with Danielle Smith (ie the oil industry). The benefits will be real: for a handful of companies with already-bloated profits. The costs will be real too: a rising tide of economic and ecological disaster that sinks all boats.”
Dude says “please stop” and cowboy hat wearing Carney says “no”, pan back and we see Carney is roasting the earth over a campfire
Burger King logo hacked to read "electrify everything or watch it all burn, it's really that simple"
Burger King logo transmogrified to read "electrify everything or watch it all burn, it's really that simple"
Jason Kenney post reads as follows: I understand that my personal information, including my home address, was shared publicly on a screen at a recent Alberta separatist event. It was also recorded on video, and is now circulating. This was apparently part of the outrageous data leak of Albertans’ private information, wherein Elections Alberta shared its entire detailed provincial voter database with the “Republican Party of Alberta,” which in turn shared it with some separatist group called the “Centurion Project,” whose leadership then shared my personal information publicly. Over the past few years I have received no shortage of threats from people broadly associated with the separatist / antivax / far right movement in Alberta. So it is disturbing that my personal information is now broadly available, particularly in those circles. While I have been targeted specifically, the broader data breach may also effect vulnerable Albertans, including victims of domestic violence, journalists, activists, judges, and other public servants for years to come. I will retain legal counsel to seek advice on recourse regarding this outrageous and potentially dangerous violation of my personal privacy." Where he talks of receiving threats is circled in red
Image of Tommy Douglas with quote: "Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
water not coal shows huge shovel digging up mountain/riverscape as ranchers on horses look on
water not coal shows huge shovel digging up mountain/riverscape as ranchers on horses look on
protect our water, protect our hime + water not coal logo (mountains and water)
protect our water, protect our hime + water not coal logo (mountains and water)
3 images, Trump claiming his posted Jesus poster was actually him as a doctor, image of actual poster pf Trump as Jesus then Orwell quote: "Democracy fails not only when leaders lie but when citizens stop caring that they are lied to."
Venn diagram showing an immutable fact of City Building inre the high cost of sprawl and the other things you give up when building this way
trump's awful threat of a nuclear holocaust against Iran put into a cartoon bible and juxtaposed with his easter speech, Melania & Bunny included
No authoritarian government has ever survived when 3.5% of the population organizes in a non-violent, sustained way
"Americans only save the world in the movies"
American Only Save The World In The Movies
says "Americans only save the world in movies"
blacK bg white text reads "AMERICANS ONLY SAVE THE WORLD IN MOVIES"
Image of solar and wind, caption reads “just a reminder that no one has ever fought a war over wind and sunshine”