Besides trying to generate good media coverage in the wake of Obama’s climate pronouncements, EC officials are working to soften Canadians up to more costly CO2 regulations to supposedly help stop climate change. 2013 is the year the Conservatives promised oil and gas companies will be hit with new emission rules.
Tom Harris
Obama’s Path Toward Energy Poverty: Shoddy science backs damaging policies
In his recent inaugural address, President Barack Obama promoted the use of the least reliable and most expensive sources of energy: wind and solar power. He notes that the transition to these energy sources would be difficult, but he also presented the move as having economic benefits that would support the country’s energy independence. In reality, such a transition would ruin the country’s economy.
Beware snap judgments on U.N. climate conferences’ successes or failures – it is more complicated than most people think
The most realistic assessment to appear in main stream media was that published about a week after the conference ended, written by Connie Hedegaard, European commissioner for climate action in the European Commission. She told climate campaigners:
“Yes progress was slow and frustrating, but the main goal was to prepare the ground for the big 2015 talks. Job done.”
Decoding the dangerous energy propaganda in Obama’s Inaugural Address
Data from the Energy Information Administration indicates that in 2007, 2008 and 2009, the U.S. added more non‐hydroelectric renewable capacity than was added in natural gas, coal, oil, and nuclear. This is a dangerous trend that must be reversed as soon as possible.
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The Man who Saved the Plains Indians
At the time of Confederation, Canada’s Plains Indians were in a desperate situation. The same European-introduced guns and horses that resulted in a briefly glorious golden age for them had also resulted in constant inter-tribal warfare and the rapid disappearance of...
Renewed Talk of Abolishing the Indian Act
Political attacks on the Indian Act are back in the news, and that is a good thing. However, Canadian politicians, including First Nation politicians, need a credible plan about what to do before we pull out the champagne. Attacking the Indian Act is not a big deal...
A More Civil Debate Needed
Greg Davis (Times letter – “Just follow the money, Art”, Feb 16) demonstrates the tactics employed by those who seek to silence debate about the causes of climate change.
Climate Science Review Needed to Inform Pipeline Hearings Better: Real pipeline issues will be better handled with global warming concerns out of the way
The federal government should organise scientific and economic hearings about crucial projects like the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline in order properly to inform citizens and to dilute the impact of radical climate change environmentalists
CAPP and Industry Have Themselves To Blame
The major driver of anti-oils sands activism, and hence any and all pipelines that help deliver oil sands products to market, is the widely discredited hypothesis that our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are leading to a climate crisis.
Global Warming, Global Worries
When will Environment Minister Peter Kent finally be given the green light to present a realistic perspective of climate change?
Appeasing Climate Bureaucrats by Regulating Plant Food: Carbon dioxide regulations useless and dangerous
The annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change must be intimidating events for Canadian environment ministers. Year after year they are expected to present Canada’s “green credentials” to a world increasingly critical of our coming violation of the Kyoto Protocol, the most important agreement to come out of 16 years of COP meetings.
Get Out of Kyoto While it’s Still Possible: Stephen Harper should guide our nation away from the most costly hoax in the history of science
At the end of 2012, Canada’s international reputation will suffer a black eye unless Prime Minister Stephen Harper comes clean on the climate file.
Deceptive Climate Poll Should be Ignored
A news release from the Public Policy Forum and Sustainable Prosperity last Wednesday began, “A poll released today shows that Canadians believe that climate change is happening and would be willing to pay for government policies that reverse or slow the damage.” They continued, “Belief in climate change among Canadians substantially outpaces belief in this phenomenon among residents of the United States.”
Getting Society off the Climate Change Bandwagon
Tom Harris reviews the current state of research in the field of climate science. He finds that there is no consensus in the area, and that many qualified experts dispute predictions of an impending climate crisis.
Politicizing The Climate Science Debate Has Boosted Alarmism
When the political affiliations of the most outspoken participants are examined, be they special interest lobbyists, scientists, politicians, media or even ordinary citizens, political polarization is readily apparent.