When I tell people I cycled through a Montreal winter, they tend to make certain assumptions about me that just aren't right.

American military pressure is unlikely to topple Nicolás Maduro, @QuicoToro writes—but even if it did, “it is likelier to deliver Venezuela to a different style of military dictatorship than it is to bring a return to democracy.”

Tonight, new David Frum Show will post with guest @QuicoToro Our topic: Trump heading to brink of war with Venezuela. Subscribe so you don't miss! Last week's show here:

"Steeped in a culture of corruption, those who would take over from Maduro would continue to prioritize enriching themselves." @QuicoToro

This week's "David Frum Show": on the brink of war with Venezuela with guest @QuicoToro

.@QuicoToro consistently delivers some of the most thought-provoking and original insights in the Substack-osphere.

"Mexico and the Road U.S. Democrats Can Never Take" https://t.co/Ljmb3iLVxt, @QuicoToro @JoinPersuasion

Fascinating look at the enormous differences between mainstream left-wing politics in Mexico and the US by @QuicoToro in @JoinPersuasion Link to follow.

Climate change is a problem of thermodynamics. We developed a suite of technologies, and later we realized that some of their second-order effects were harmful. We grasped were changing the composition of the atmosphere in ways that trapped increasing amounts of energy.

Solar geoengineering—cooling the planet by injecting shiny particles into the stratosphere to reflect incoming sunlight—sounds like the very definition of hubris. But the consequences of not exploring its potential are risky, too https://t.co/WJfDyCPTht 🌐

https://t.co/8kU7RerOBQ

Everybody wants to repair the climate; nobody wants to engineer the planet.

On the record, no scientist will tell you they favor stratospheric aerosol injection or marine cloud brightening. Go to the bar after the conference, and after two or three beers it’s clear everyone understands this is where we’re going to end up.

We know how to do it. We have the technology. It would cost next to nothing.

If we really saw global warming as an existential risk, we would reverse it. Not in the slow, grinding, multi-decade, tens-of-trillions-of-dollars way pushed by the climate movement. I mean we could set the global mean temperature back to where it was in 1750 this decade.

I can think of 200,000,000,000,000 reasons this won’t work

Obvs the algorithm is going to bury posts like this, but I do wish @LeonSimons8 would read this, because I want to interview him. https://t.co/zfQ8va3g0p

I think about this Chesterton passage a lot. Does this ring true?

I've always wondered if this can be done right. The book is right on the knife-edge between adaptable and unadaptable.

Let's go!

People ought to be mad about this... @LeonSimons8 https://t.co/uIfJov2i9J