Andrew MacDougall

I from NS. My list:
Joggins fossil beach (UNESCO site)

Cabot Trail/ Cape Breton Highlands national park.

Route 19 (fiddle music + breweries).

Fortress Louisbourg.

There are many nice swimable beaches along the Gulf coast. Pugwash, Pomqet and Inverness being the best.

Well WWIII being cancelled in the 1990s, was up there in terms of historical significance.

The 1890s was the first ‘cultural decade’, the ‘Gay 90s’. So the distant past, the living past, and our kids retirement years.

I’ve had reasonable experiences, no slower than Journal of Climate.

Since the preprint is published, no worries about being scooped during a slow review process.

There is the EGU (European Geoscience Union) model. Journals owned by a scientific society, all open access , pre-prints published, peer reviews published openly.

The down side is higher page fees but at least these are going to real expenses, not rent seeking.

Direct event feeds are working fine for me. Main feed is garbage 90% commercials.

Maybe try updating the app?

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

The great gift of a classical Earth Science education. All data is best displayed as a ternary diagram 🙂

A 5500-year-old Treponema pallidum genome from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia Treponematosis, a bacterial infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies and T. carateum (yaws, bejel, syphilis, pinta), has afflicted humans for millennia. Despite paleopathological evidence and...

Even more evidence that Syphilis originated in the Americas.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Well that was blunt.

“ We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient... And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.”

A BYD Plant in Oshawa will create a 1000 Year Laurentian Elite Victory

Canada chooses lawful evil over chaotic evil “We looked around for a neutral evil country to trade with, but couldn’t find one.” Luke and the Panel (Ian MacIntyre, Clare Blackwood and Nile Seguin) talk about the horrific ICE shooting of Renee Go...

www.thebeaverton.com/2026/01/cana...

New data: EVs grew more in '25 than '24, despite constant lies saying otherwise Another year in opposite world: EV sales growth accelerated in 2025, even as media, automakers & governments wrongly said sales were slowing.

It’s mental that western car companies are just boldface lying about EV sales.

electrek.co/2026/01/14/c...

Investigation into dog attack that killed N.S. boy continuing, RCMP say | CBC News Drew Nickerson, 13, died after being airlifted to a Halifax hospital.

This is horrifying. I’ve cycled thousands of km in rural Nova Scotia and been chased and nipped by a few dogs.

My deepest condolences to this poor kids family.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

80 years, 4 months, 28 days since the last nuclear war. So that’s an accomplishment.

The core purpose of the UN is to prevent WWIII, all the other functions are just decorative.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

A group of Peruvian shamans gathered on a beach in southern Lima to perform their annual New Year ritual, delivering predictions for 2026 that included the fall of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a serious illness for US President Donald Trump

Literally yes, in the sense that the Roman senatorial class owned or invested in the commercial farms and industrial processing and shipping operations that produced and distributed olive oil.

Also this is a story that has nothing really to do with the US. Many, many stories do not.

Considering the Byzantines never called themselves such, and referred to themselves as Romans, this is a particularly weird thing to go after.

Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast

On the one hand, Nova Scotia could pick up a lot of wind turbine equipment very cheap. On the other hand, this is a disaster for wind investment and investment certainty in general in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

1/ The New York Times reports that Trump plans to name an entire new class of US Navy warships after himself. If so, this will break genuinely new ground in a level of state-sponsored sycophancy never seen before in global naval history.

Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way

Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ...

... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.

RCP airless lava planet?

The foundational axiom of science is that reality is real and that it can be understood at least to some approximation.

The foundational axiom of fascism is that there is no such thing as reality, and truth is whatever the leader says it is.

Science will always wither under fascism.

I really didn't think modern civilization was this vulnerable to "I don't like what I see so I'm going to gouge my eyes out."

The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

2025 marks another year of record clean energy additions, electrification and declining fossil reliance.

Check out: ember-energy.org/lat...

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Grok's response to query, "Who is Edward Crabtree?" Edward Crabtree is an Australian IT professional from Sydney, recognized as a hero for his actions during a terrorist attack at Bondi Beach on December 13, 2025.He is a senior solutions architect at a major Sydney technology firm, having graduated in 2004 and built his career from junior developer roles. Colleagues describe him as calm, methodical, and modest.During the attack—which targeted a Hanukkah event for the Jewish community and resulted in multiple fatalities—Crabtree intervened by tackling and disarming an armed attacker wielding a semi-automatic rifle. He was shot twice in the process but successfully wrestled the weapon away and pinned the assailant until help arrived. He later stated he acted on instinct to protect his community, noting his lifelong connection to Bondi Beach.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited him in hospital and praised his bravery. Reports on the incident show some initial confusion or conflicting names in media coverage, but multiple sources confirm Crabtree as the individual who disarmed the attacker.

BBC headline in story by Emily Atkinson: "Hero" who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed el Ahmed. Text begins: A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

And here, friends, is why the assurances one hears about how AI errors are being fixed ring hollow.

On the left, Grok four minutes ago as I post.

On the right, an actual news story from a reporter published 52 minutes ago.

Note the novelistic invented detail in the Grok account.