What if the scariest climate predictions are more fiction than fact? The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) aims to highlight the urgent threats climate change poses. It projects severe consequences, including longer and more intense urban heat waves,...
Despite the green rhetoric, biofuels and biogas are not the most effective or economic solutions for our energy needs. They remain costly distractions from more viable energy solutions. The Climate Crisis lobby touts biofuels and biogas as effective ways to...
Solar energy’s promise of a green, abundant future is captivating—but beneath the shiny panels lies a story of unreliability, hidden costs, and grid instability. Green enthusiasts endorse solar energy to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from traditional energy...
The use of hydrocarbons is a necessity for modern life. Climate Crusaders claim that our society could do without oil and natural gas by proceeding to a Utopia of ‘Net Zero’ by 2050, extracting CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions from the atmosphere. However, as the...
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Advocates of so-called alternative energy sources promote them to diminish, if not eliminate the demonized molecule, carbon dioxide, ‘CO2’. Yet they rarely mention geothermal energy as a plausible alternative. It may be because, like most others, it is a...
Switzerland is a country that is often overlooked, but it has valuable lessons for other nations, including Canada. Although the two countries have few similarities, Canada’s policymakers could learn from the Alpine state. Switzerland is a high-cost economy...
The current rate of rising sea levels is manageable, and countries and authorities are already taking proactive measures to address the issue One of the more exaggerated predictions made by the climate crisis lobby is that human-caused global warming is leading to a...
Dissatisfaction with the current state of Canada's airports is palpable among the public, airlines, and the federal government. Landing fees, shop and restaurant rental fees, and ‘airport improvement fees’ seem high and uncompetitive versus U.S. airports. This...
Climate Crisis advocates doggedly promote wind and solar power as alternatives to petroleum and coal-based energy sources. Solar power has serious fundamental problems inherent to its nature, specifically its intermittency and grid-destabilization. Wind turbines...
Journalistic objectivity, curiosity, skepticism, neutrality, and even impartiality are in decline. It is not merely how quickly and savagely that opinion analysis, or commentary elements of most news organizations are to dismiss challenges to establishment...
It’s that time of year for breathless reports about planetary heating. Multilateral institutions, including the United Nations, recently made worldwide headlines, proclaiming 2023 as the hottest year in history. The increase in average temperature, versus the...
Increasing income tax on businesses and investment will not increase prosperity and personal income.
Climate Crisis alarmists tout yet another avenue by which renewable energy could replace reliable fossil fuel-sourced energy: hydrogen, ‘H2’. However, typical with alternative energy proposals, there are numerous problems with the widespread integration of this...