History is replete with tragic examples of those who collaborated with the enemy or sought to appease political correctness and wishful thinking for their own short term benefit. Nowhere is this more evident than in today’s climate change debate. Politicians from across the political spectrum, fossil fuel companies and academics who should know better, not only bow to the climate scare, but actively support it. They even use the unscientific, misnomer-riddled language of their opponents.
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ICSC Media Release – Premier Redford’s Washington DC Brookings Institute Presentation Helps Opponents: Keystone XL pipeline not worth burdening Canada with severe carbon dioxide regulations
ICSC Media Release from Tom Harris.
Deal with Climate Reality as it Unfolds: Policymakers have quietly given up trying to cut carbon dioxide emissions
Over the last 18 months, policymakers in Canada, the U.S. and Japan have quietly abandoned the illusory goal of preventing global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, an alternative view has emerged regarding the most cost-effective way in which to deal with the undoubted hazards of climate change.
Time to Terminate Big Wind Subsidies: -and protect environmental values, endangered species, jobs and human welfare
Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough.
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Etam: Energy Wise, How Do You Even Describe 2024
Huh. Look at that. It’s been ten years since I started writing about energy. Not that that particular trivia interests anyone, why would it, however it is interesting to look back at the impetus for writing and how that has changed. Ten years ago, as I worked in a...
The Unfair Demonization of Plastic Bags
Brownstone Institute
Etam: Achtung: Learning From Germany’s Energy Shambles
In 1880, a great author, Mark Twain, whom you may never hear spoken of again because he had the audacity to write in the vernacular of the day, wrote an extremely funny essay called The Awful German Language. “Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod...
Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch
Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs.
Nickson: On Climate Uncertainty and Risk by Judith Curry
Book Review: On Climate Uncertainty and Risk by Judith Curry
A Canary In A Coal Mine Is A Warning Sign
Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 1 of 3
FLOP28 – Climate Proposals Would Devastate Economy
Politicians, academics, celebrities, self-appointed activists, protesters, and green energy industry lobbyists recently gathered in Dubai at their annual Climate Crisis jamboree (COP28). Their central belief, from their computer models, is that human-generated global...
The Alberta Sovereignty Act
This week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith invoked the Alberta Sovereignty Act. This act is intended to restrict the rights ot the Federal Government to impose restrictions or fine entities in Alberta, where there is a dispute over legislation and regulations. The...
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were...