Of all of the world’s chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant. That’s simply not the case. Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity.
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Kudos to Environment Minister Peter Kent for giving Canadians a climate scare-free Earth Day
Happily, and perhaps unexpectedly, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent resisted the temptation to associate his Earth Day speech with the climate scare. In an announcement that included nothing at all about climate, global warming, greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide, Kent and his Alberta counter-part Diana McQueen instead discussed a practical, science-based plan to enhance public access to real pollution data from the oilsands.
Media Release – Eco-Fascists: A Review of Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists are Destroying our Natural Heritage, by Elizabeth Nickson.
Professor Barry Cooper reviews Elizabeth Nickson’s controversial 2012 book about “eco-fascism” and considers its implications for policy development in Canada.
Eco-Fascists by Elizabeth Nickson
Professor Barry Cooper reviews Elizabeth Nickson’s controversial book “eco-fascism” and discusses the threat that radical conservationism poses to the development of smart environmental policy in Canada. Elizabeth Nickson can write. She developed her skills as a...
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Decoupling and Reshoring From China will be Hard: China Holds Most of the Cards
Several factors have merged to induce Western governments and the firms they preside over, to find substitute supply chains for China-dominant ones that they now depend on. These factors include growing public revulsion at the repressive and persecutory policies the...
Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
In 1970 Milton Friedman, a Nobel Laureate, in his article to the New York Times (The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits) proposed that an enterprise’s primary and sole responsibility was to the shareholder through the maximization of profits....
Top 10 Dud Global Warming Predictions
Lesson: Something is wrong with warming models that predict warming in a cooling world, especially when we’re each year pumping out even more greenhouse gases.
Prominent Scientist Says Warming Alarm “Mistaken”
Award winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer, who was reportedly fired by former Vice President Al Gore in 1993 for failing to adhere to Gore’s scientific views, has now declared man-made global warming fears “mistaken.”
Pre-industrial CO2 Levels were About the Same as Today
Authorities told us pre-industrial atmospheric levels of CO2 were approximately 100 parts per million (ppm) lower than the present 385 ppm. They are wrong. The pre-industrial level is at least 50 ppm higher than the level put into the computer models that produce all future climate predictions.
A Bad Climate Trade-off
Leaders in Poznan are talking loudly of the need to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions, but until they put their trade policies where their mouths are, it will be just a lot of hot air.
Can We Afford More Wind Power?
PowerPoint slides which accompanied the speech by David Grant at our December 10th, 2008 Breakfast on the Frontier in Winnipeg. This is best viewed concurrently (in a separate window) with the speech audio (see related items below). View PDF version of slides
Kyoto Is Worthless (and you don’t have to be a skeptic to believe that now)
This fabricated market in carbon has at its heart the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism. This is how the EU, which had an obligation under Kyoto to reduce its emissions by two per cent by 2012, has managed to claim success while actually increasing its emissions by 13 per cent. By purchasing so called “offsets” from countries such as China, Britain, for example, proclaims itself a “leader in the fight against climate change”. Most of this is entirely fraudulent, in the sense that the Chinese have been paid billions to destroy particular atmospheric pollutants, such as CFC-23, which have actually been manufactured in order to be destroyed – and for no other purpose.
Media Release – 50 European Civil Society Groups Urge Governments to Reject Siren Song on Climate Change
A new report released by a coalition of over 50 European civil society groups warns that a cap on emissions of carbon would do little to protect humanity against the threat of climate change. Instead, it would drastically increase the threat of global economic catastrophe.
Sun & Pacific Ocean: Elephants in the Room for Prairie Grain?
Describing the factors associated with drought on the Canadian Prairies and their impact.
Martin Durkin, Director of The Great Global Warming Swindle
If you examine the mountain of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) literature on this, you’ll find the vast majority of it concerns the possible (projected) effects of climate change. Most of this is highly suspect and does not address the central question of whether humans are causing the climate to change. The climate has always changed. Climate change is nothing new.