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Year: 2009
Obama Led The Total Failure of World Leadership in Copenhagen
“World leaders pursued policies while refusing to understand the issue. They ignored all evidence, silenced any debate, and disdained polls showing an increasing majority rejected the science. Finally, they ignored proof the science was deliberately and criminally falsified. “
‘Compassion Knows No Ideological Bounds’ is true
Feedback to Mark Milke’s Compassion Has No Ideological Litmus Test Policy Note.
Rethinking Green: Save the Environment: Don’t Take Transit
“Although it is charging more than ever, getting heftier federal, provincial and municipal subsidies than at any time in its history, although fuelling a car is pricier; and though its customer base has never been larger or keener to reduce its carbon footprint, the TTC, the largest system in the country, is struggling as much as ever to stem its losses. If this is the future of public transit, it does not look bright.”
Featured News
There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Attack On West Way Out Of Line
[A]ttacking our fossil-fuel industry through unfair emissions restrictions is an attack against the value of the Canadian economy, and the dollar. Both are directly linked to the country’s oil production.
North Hides Nefarious Aims Under Green Cloak
“Environmental groups from rich countries have for years waged a campaign against those in poor countries who want to harness their natural resources for economic growth.”
Climategate Update: Science Hasn’t Failed, Government Has
This is the big lesson. It isn’t science that has failed. Real science is a process of discovering the truth through transparency, experimentation and verification.
A Dose Of Skepticism Is Healthy: I’m perfectly willing to trust the climate experts. But isn’t doubt an integral part of serious research?
In any case, aren’t doubt and skepticism an integral part of serious research? Science evolves by trial and error, and there’s always a new discovery that challenges accepted theories. Whether or not the gloom-and-doom scenarios are probable, it would certainly be good for humanity and for Mother Earth to find alternative ways to provide cleaner energy. But the findings of the UN panel would be more convincing if they had rested on an open scientific debate.
The Gas Of Life: Western CO2 emissions increase plant yields in the Third World. So why are they asking for reparations?
At Copenhagen, Third World countries are demanding hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations from the West for the consequences of the West’s fossil fuel burning, among them droughts and crop failures. Third World countries have it backwards. The West’s CO2 emissions have been increasing crop yields while helping to ease the Third World’s water shortages. Rather than plead for reparations, Third World governments should offer a paean to Providence.
Congress of Racial Equality Leader To Serve As A National Spokesman for ‘No Cap-And-Trade’ Coalition
If domestic cap-and-trade legislation were passed, it could result in a loss of 1.9 million American jobs in 2012 and 2.5 million American jobs by 2025. From 2012-2019, the CBO estimates direct government spending at $822 billion with revenue at $845 billion from taxes on energy producers.
Spending Rule a Long-term Solution to Spending Woes: The case for capping government spending to inflation plus population growth.
Saskatchewan should look to adopt a quasi-constitutional convention that limits the growth in expenditure to population growth plus inflation.
Proper Debate
Feedback from Mark Milke’s recent column A Proper Debate Over Climate Change Matters.
Climate Change Discussion on Radio – With David Seymour
David Seymour discusses binding treaty on climate change in Copenhagen, December 15, 2009. Listen here.