David Schindler is a widely-recognized biologist at the University of Alberta. His opinions should not be dismissed. However, when it comes to the debate on human-caused climate change the good doctor departs too closely into the realm of activism, as opposed to...
Environment
Manure Management News
Harry Siemens reports on manure management research in Manitoba. “I would say the biggest thing is the phosphorus removal,” says Grieger. “We’ve seen removal rates up to 50 to 60 percent phosphorus with different technologies under different conditions and even higher...
Resource Consumption and Economic Production in Canada and the United States:: How Economic Activity in North America Benefits People Everywhere
Ben Eisen and Kenneth Green show that high levels of resource consumption in North America enables economic production and wealth creation that brings benefits to people all over the world.
Scaling Back EPA Powers
This looks like a good ruling for landowner rights in the USA. The EPA has had its draconian powers limited. Up here in Canada, we need to get behind efforts to scale back excessive DFO actions to protect "fish habitat" were no fish live. Municipalities across...
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The Compelling Case for Selling Canada’s Water to the U.S.
Canada exports huge quantities of water to the United States and all over the world. As the world’s fifth largest exporter of agricultural products – which are composed mainly of water – huge amounts of Canadian water leave the country every day. Whole lakes are...
Rapidly Evolving Energy Innovation Makes Eco-Extremists’ Apocalyptic Predictions Suspect
A recent Globe and Mail story about a firm developing garbage-to-biodiesel technology shows how continuing progress makes the global warming extremists’ most hysterically apocalyptic predictions, and their extreme absolutist ‘solutions’, not only grossly wrong but...
If Noah’s Ark was Canadian built?
Too many regulations destroy the world..
Be Realistic about Hydrogen Economy
Solar and wind resources remain feeble sources of electricity
Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark
The Skeptical Environmentalist responds to more personal attacks
Lost without Marx
Green ideology fills the political function once performed by socialist economics: It justifies attacks on the private sector.
Kyoto Spin Machine Triumphs
“Taken by Storm,” a new book by Christopher Essex, a mathematician, and Ross McKitrick, an economist, exposes how politics overwhelmed the science of climate change behind the Kyoto Accord.
Making Sense of Sustainable Development
‘Sustainable development’ is a term that has been around for about 30 years. Over that time it has been interpreted in a variety of ways, ranging from the sensible to the slippery to the downright dangerous.
Environmental Group Finds Abundant Wilderness
Contrary to some popular thinking the earth is a vast and empty space.
A Conversation with Bjørn Lomborg
Bjørn Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” explains why the Kyoto treaty is second best policy.
Five Things to Know About Kyoto
It should be enough to turn Canadians against the Kyoto accord to know it will kill tens of thousands of existing jobs.