John Stossel, an American consumer television personality, author, and libertarian pundit, former ABC News and Fox Business reporter, questions popular beliefs. As a libertarian, Stossel believes in both personal freedom and the free market. He challenges viewers' who...
Climate
Is It Climate Socialism – or Eco-Fascism?
Green New Dealers have convinced themselves that our planet faces an imminent, existential, manmade climate cataclysm – that can be prevented solely and simply by government edicts replacing fossil fuels with biofuel, wind, solar and battery energy. They achieve this...
e-Zine: Ideas that change your world (Quarterly) Issue 2
Frontier Centre for Public Policy is proud to release its second issue of e-Zine: Ideas that change your world our quarterly magazine Ideas that change your world is our premier quarterly magazine delivering to you some of Frontier’s latest thought-provoking,...
More Buckets of Icy Cold Energy Reality
The full-court press is on for climate chaos disaster and renewable energy salvation. CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate event for Democrat presidential aspirants. Every day brings more gloom-and-doom stories about absurd, often taxpayer-funded pseudo-scientific...
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Energy Inquiry Shows the Problem and the Way
If a public inquiry found that hundreds of millions of dollars was being funnelled by foreign entities to undermine Canadian industry, should we conclude there is nothing wrong? Remarkably, the public inquiry’s final report into anti-Alberta energy campaigns did the...
Why Millennials Prefer DIY Investing
One-third of Canadian millennials prefer going solo when it comes to managing and investing their money. Online financial education and tools are changing the rules of the game and threatening to affect financial advisors how emails affected mailmen. A recent poll...
Time to Terminate Big Wind Subsidies: -and protect environmental values, endangered species, jobs and human welfare
Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough.
Re – ‘Wildrose Proves Too Wild’, April 25
“Danielle Smith’s statement that “the science isn’t settled” on climate change was correct—scientifically. It should have been correct politically as well since it is a centrist position, respecting people on both sides of the very real and intense debate about the causes of climate change.”
Aristotle’s Climate: His fallacies exemplified by warming hysteria
The Greek philosopher Aristotle, 2,300 years ago, listed the dozen commonest logical fallacies in human discourse in his book Sophistical Refutations. Not the least of these invalid arguments is what the medieval schoolmen would later call the argumentum ad populum— the consensus or headcount fallacy.
Astronauts Condemn NASA’s Global Warming Endorsement
In an unprecedented slap at NASA’s endorsement of global warming science, nearly 50 former astronauts and scientists–including the ex-boss of the Johnson Space Center–claim the agency is on the wrong side of science and must change course or ruin the reputation of the world’s top space agency.
Onto the Sustainable Scrap Heap: If any group has ‘sustainable’ in its name, Ottawa should end its funding
Sustainable development is a mushy concept rooted in the belief that markets are unsustainable, the climate is in crisis, and that Global Salvation requires vast cabals of bureaucrats, NGOs, consultants and corporations to hatch top-down solutions. Since market prices are “all wrong,” the way to a more modest anti-materialist, carbon-constrained future is through globally co-ordinated taxation and the promotion of energy alternatives.
Healthy Polar Bear Count Confounds Doomsayers
The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing.
Eco Hypothesis Faulty
While reducing energy consumption to conserve natural resources, reduce pollution and save money is a worthwhile activity and something all sensible people support, Earth Hour is not based on these goals.
Lights out for Earth Hour: Official dimmery abounds across the West, but Cuba is always dim
What a shame to see the lights go out on Earth Hour, the global WWF fundraiser that persuades the young, the naive and the scared to inconvenience themselves on Saturday evening.
The Biggest Carbon Bomb is Disinformation: Science and Free Speech get SLAPP-ed
The the biggest ‘carbon bomb’ is disinformation. And look out if you publicly disagree with AGW! SLAPP suit coming your way to silence you – Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.