“In a world where we experience temperature changes of tens of degrees in a single day, we treat changes of a few tenths of a degree in some statistical residue, known as the global mean temperature anomaly (GATA), as portents of disaster.”
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Public Scepticism Prompts Science Museum to Rename Climate Exhibition
“The museum is abandoning its previous practice of trying to persuade visitors of the dangers of global warming. It is instead adopting a neutral position, acknowledging that there are legitimate doubts about the impact of man-made emissions on the climate.”
Can Property Rights Heal Native Reserves?
“Mr. Flanagan has long confounded his critics by adopting unexpected positions and he’s back with an important new book that advocates a simple legislative change that presents perhaps the single best opportunity to improve living standards on native reserves across this country.”
Change Prices, Not Attitudes, to Conserve Water: Market Pricing is the Key to Efficient, Sustainable Water Use
By eliminating water subsidies and eliminating flat rate pricing for water, we can do more to promote conservation than millions of dollars worth of public education campaigns.
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Carbon Border Taxes: A Counterproductive Idea Which Will Lead to Penalized Customers
Carbon taxes at the borders are becoming a popular idea among some countries and world regions. For example, the European Commission, the EU executive institution, is proposing environmental tariffs “on imports from countries with less stringent climate-protection...
Reverse Orwell to Give Our Leaders New Titles
In his novel 1984, George Orwell envisioned a future that is arguably unfolding before our eyes where government authority was supreme and truth and freedom were not to be found. Perhaps he should have named his novel 2021 because our times seem more like his novel...
How Ontario Gets The Federal Shaft
The fact Ontario and Alberta are contributing to the social services of Canada’s so-called “have-not” provinces, is a fact known to most. Ideally, the purpose of this contribution is to help other Canadians receive the same services Ontarians enjoy. However, this is not the case.
Road To Hell Is Paved With Public Transit
Whether you seek to conserve energy or to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, your public policy decision here appears remarkably obvious. Get people off buses and get them into cars.
Drain Canada Dry?
Canada, with 10 times the renewable fresh water per capita as the United States, is by global standards a water heavyweight. Though we boast of our trade muscle on energy matters, Canadians come off as positively paranoid we’re powerless to stop Americans from siphoning our precious water.
Study Says Global Warming Not Worsening Hurricanes
Global warming isn’t to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject.
Too “Complex”?
The problem is not that supply and demand is such a complex explanation. The problem is that supply and demand is not an emotionally satisfying explanation. For that, you need melodrama, heroes and villains.
Why Fume? Gasoline Remains A Bargain
The rising price of gasoline irks people intensely but so far hasn’t hurt them significantly. In fact, of course, people are getting the energy equivalent of two tanks of gas every time they fill up. It’s like paying twice as much as you want to pay for a carton of eggs – but getting 24 of them in every dozen.
Scrap Have-Not Grants: Premier
It’s time for a new fiscal arrangement, Mr. McGuinty said, and he is promising to soon unveil tactics to get the message through to the federal government.
End Of Boom Will Be Painful
What we will not have is a lean, productive economy, pumping out strong growth and taking full advantage of the only truly infinite natural resource: human brainpower. Through these long boom years we have received a lot of income but we have not produced much growth with it.
‘Perverse’ System Cripples Province
Mr. MacKinnon believes equalization and the equally valuable federal system of regional subsidies are killing Ontario’s competitiveness.