Instead of meekly accepting emotional leaps in faith from simple observations about nature to expensive [climate change] policy recommendations, we need to start holding our politicians, media and activists accountable for using logic in their assessments.
Environment
Bjorn Lomborg On Sun
Bjorn Lomborg was on Sun TV this evening talking about the latest ideas from his “Copenhagen Consensus” project.
Canadian Government Claims Credit for Fixing a Non-Existent Problem
Environment Minister Peter Kent and other politicians boost the Montreal Protocol as a triumph because of the recovery in the ozone layer, but there was no problem with the ozone layer in the first place.
Environmental Protection Up in Smoke: Dead wood fuels wildfires. Too bad lawsuits keep the Forest Service from thinning out the trees.
When the wildfires that are burning millions of acres in the West are finally smothered by winter snows, environmentalists undoubtedly will blame climate change. They might look in the mirror instead.
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Computer Models, Like “Selfies,” are not Reality
In a recent article about climate change, Seth Borenstein, a science writer with the Associated Press, gave us a master class on how to sell the results of a computer model as if it represents reality. In the Borenstein world, a group of scientists can take a...
Air Canada Needs Travellers, Not Bailouts
A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the only thing keeping Air Canada alive is the federal-government bailouts. They are delaying the inevitable and sensible way out: cutting travel restrictions, encouraging tourism by ensuring effective containment and...
Dr. Andrew Sharpley, soil scientist, et al.
Are experts and regulators on the same track when it comes to writing laws for water protection? Side-by-side interviews indicate a problem.
An Environmental Strategy for Stephen Harper
The new Conservative government is uniquely positioned to forge a new, modern environmentalism.
Roger Samson, REAP-Canada
Can we win environmentally and economically by using Prairie biomass as heating fuel? Roger Samson emphatically says, “Yes.”
Alex Avery, Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute
In both urban and rural communities, stereotypes and preconceived notions about intensive livestock operations, factory farming, the development of genetically modified crops and the use of crop protection products and fertilizers are rife. Alex Avery offers his refreshingly honest perspective.
Human Rights that Really Matter
Threatened aid cutoffs and agricultural export bans against any malaria-endemic country that even suggests it might use DDT are major human rights abuses.
Climate Science: SOME PRINCIPLES
1. Climate Science encompasses many basic disciplines from Science-in-general. Few people have a total grasp of all factors that influence the planet’s climate. As a result, specialists sometimes don’t see the forest for the trees. 2. Climate has been changing since...
Green Groups Should Lead
According to their own financial statements, Sierra Club received $758,608 in 2004 and $574,431 in 2003 in what it labels government contracts.
If You Could Save $225 Million – Powerpoint
The powerpoint slides from Geoffrey Segal's speech to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy on October 27th, 2005. Best viewed alongside the speech video (see links below). Pdf file
Smart and Green
Prices, markets, incentives and fiscal responsibility from Canada’s Greens? You better believe it.