In this piece in Huffington Post, Canada's famous geneticist, David Suzuki, tried his best to connect the recent Alberta floods to fossil fuel consumption. The attempt goes from fuel consumption, to global warming, to climate change, to flooding rivers. The title of...
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Precautionary Double Standards: Wind turbines kill birds and harm people. Why doesn’t the “precautionary principle” apply?
Jessica Marszelek, federal politics reporter for Australia’s News Limited Network, recently posted an article titled, “Australia: Wind power ‘terrorising’ rural communities.” Some 150 people turned up for a three-hour rally at Canberra’s Parliament House, she reported, to express their concern about the health effects of wind turbines.
Slow the Flow… Save the Lake: Throwing money at Lake Winnipeg won’t help much, but some ditch-digging might
On Thursday, the province announced a new “Lake Friendly Accord” intended to leverage $1 billion worth of investment into ways to improve the ecological state of the vast Lake Winnipeg watershed, which stretches from the Rocky Mountains in the west down to the edge of South Dakota and then east into Canadian Shield between Atikokan and Thunder Bay.
Study highlights need to unify public and private in conservation
A study released by Reed Watson, a research fellow with the Montana-based Property and Environment Research Center, correctly identifies the problem of conservation. The full study can be accessed here. That problem being the so-called split wildlife estate where...
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Beijing’s Minions Don’t Belong on Canadian Stock Exchanges
The Chinese economy is growing and surpassing the U.S. economy in size. That stature, with its consequent soft and hard power, means opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) regime needs to be multilateral. No matter how much unipolarity the U.S. has enjoyed...
Manitoba Trade with the U.S.: The Need to Strengthen Relations with the Midwest
Trade is essential for Manitoba’s economy. International exports and imports represented 46.4 per cent of GDP for Manitoba in 2018. With a significant goods-related industry estimated at 26.9 per cent of GDP in 2019, Manitoba needs to have strong trading partners to...
Sweating About Small Stuff? Don’t Overdose On Worry
As for individuals who think their pet toxin is responsible for all of society’s ills, well, they could use a cold shower. And for me, my worry is that I’m not sure what to worry about. I don’t think worrying about everything is the answer.
Telling CO2 Lies to Destroy America
I am increasingly of the opinion that the main goal of the Obama administration through CO2 regulation, exploding deficits, punishing taxation, and any other means at their disposal is the destruction of the economy and the complete control of impoverished Americans.
Earth Hour Tokenism
By switching off lights of one hour per year while continuing to enjoy the comforts of modern life, Earth Hour highlights that the developing world really needs sanitation, nutrition, trade, and education more than the sacrifices Westerners are prepared to make for climate change.
The Common Follies of Banning Bottled Water, Food Miles, and Earth Hour
When environmental initiatives ask the wrong questions or pursue the wrong goals they are liable to be ineffective, detract from more pressing concerns, or even do more harm than good.
Investment Managers Liable as Greenhouse Theories Unravel?
Has climate change frenzy created a colussus built on sand? There is a diversity of risk analyses being carried out by investors in today’s climate change market place. Practically without exception, all of these organizations, many of them among the most successful and respected in the world, completely ignore the risk that the very foundation of all of these activities might be shown to be faulty.
Cap and Trade and Alternative Energy: The real danger in Obama’s policies
How President Obama’s plans will unnecessarily increase the cost of living and doing business while making US industry less competitive in world trade.
Green Cities, Brown Suburbs
Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers.
Obama’s Energy Quick Fix Bound For The Slag Heap
“Energy systems are inherently inertial,” Prof. Smil said. “Energy transitions take decades to accomplish. Anyone who expects Mr. Obama to transform the world will be disappointed [and] the degree of disappointment that must follow such naiveté will be phenomenal.”
Lunch on the Frontier – Polar Bears and Climate Change – With Mitchell Taylor
Dr. Mitchell Taylor discusses Climate Change and the North on Lunch on the Frontier here. (50 minutes) Read: Dr. Mitchell Taylor, Polar Bear Biologist here, Jan 25, 2009.