This op ed was originally published by The Australian on Monday, April 13, 2015: www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/put-the-acid-on-great-barrier-reef-doomsayers/story-e6frg6zo-1227300731557
Environment
Ocean Acidification Will not Kill Coral Reefs and Shellfish
When the slight global warming that occurred between 1970 and 2000 came to a virtual standstill, the doomsayers adopted “climate change” which apparently means that all extreme weather events are caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO²). Cold, hot, wet, dry,...
Who’s really endangered?
As the federal election looms, a hailstorm of criticism is being launched against the Harper government for its failure on environmental issues. Already, the media reports have informed us that we are not protecting our caribou. Canada is an international pariah when...
Federal regulators need to recognize the danger in transporting Alberta crude oil
Greenbrier tankers have been found to be twice as safe and eight times less likely to spill Last Saturday, just outside the northeastern Ontario town of Gogama, 38 cars loaded with bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands derailed, triggering a series of fiery...
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Free to Fly Wants Friendly Skies for Unvaccinated Canadians
Should Canadians be free to fly without a COVID-19 vaccination? Four Canadian pilots thought so and founded Free to Fly at the end of August. By now, the organization has attracted 14,300 members, including 1,900 airline staff. In an interview, Free to Fly co-founder...
More Repression Does Not Save More COVID-19 Sick
The most mentioned reason for lockdowns has been the protection of health systems. The claim is that such protection saves lives. So, it is fair to ask how health systems are performing in their lockdown life-saving duty? There are several points from which one can...
Listening to the Shale Revolution
With turmoil in the Middle East comes the inevitable spike in oil prices, topping $90 this week. Look for energy security to make one of its recurrent runs to the top of the national agenda. This time, though, we should listen to the shale gas revolution that has put an unexpected energy bonanza at our feet in places like New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Confessions of a Greenpeace Founder: New book describes environmental group’s descent into extremism, author’s conversion to reason
“The truth is Greenpeace and I had divergent evolutions. I became a sensible environmentalist; Greenpeace became increasingly senseless as it adopted an agenda that is anti-science, anti-business, and downright anti-human. This is the story of our transformations.”
Drill, Baby, Drill! Why Canada Needs its Offshore Oil (Lyatsky)
PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Lunch on the Frontier speech by Henry Lyatsky in Calgary February 3, 2011.
School Lunch Bags – Follow Up
Previously, David posted an article about the flap in Quebec on socially-appropriate school lunch containers.
The feature in today’s National Post got me thinking about my own use of plastic bags and how that related to environmental sustainability.
Back in the dark ages of disco when I was in school, I recall that I re-used both paper lunch bags and plastic sandwich bags all the time. My parents, who had grown up in the depression, instilled in me an ethic not to throw away things that could be reused. As a result, those paper and plastic lunch bags usually lasted at least a week (and yes, the plastic bag was washed and disinfected before being reused). While that practice did carry some teasing from for schoolmates, it was one that made sense to me at the time.
Did the Clean Air Act Improve Air Quality in American Cities?
The improvement in air quality is a hugely positive development (of which many people are unaware). This data suggests, however, that those who attribute this progress in the United States to the Clean Air Act may well be mistaken.
Land Fizzing Like Soda Pop:: Farmer says CO2 injected underground is leaking
“A Saskatchewan farm couple whose land lies over the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases leaking out are killing animals and sending groundwater foaming to the surface like shaken soda pop.”
Ghost of Kyoto: Government Control by Any Means
The Environmental Protection Agency is manipulating a completely unnecessary and scientifically unjustified control of energy and must be stopped. Fortunately, the Texas case is currently stayed by a court order, but the EPA’s history is to do anything to achieve their goal. There can’t be enough articles about what EPA is doing because it is a serious threat to freedom.
The EPA’s Utility Men: Anticarbon regulations and the corporate rent-seekers who love them
“Eight leading utility CEOs responded recently to one of our editorials with a letter defending the EPA, claiming that the coal retirements are “long overdue” and that the regulations will “yield important economic benefits.” What they didn’t mention is that those benefits will mostly accrue to the businesses they happen to head.”
Why Do Greens Hate and Fear Abundant Energy?
“Instead of producing more of the cheap, abundant energy that fueled America’s dynamic growth, the extremists who support and surround Obama dream of drastically cutting American consumption.”