How Climate Politics is Devastating the Canadian Economy—and What We Can Do About It: A Talk

You can view the talk by clicking this link.

Paul MacRae is a former Times Colonist editorial writer and instructor in writing at the University of Victoria who has done extensive research on how climate politics (Net Zero by 2050) is destroying the economies of Canada and many other countries.

For example, he notes that, using the Paris Agreement’s own calculations, the Net Zero by 2050 policy will cost an estimated $1-$2 trillion a year globally until 2100 ($80 billion a year for Canada), and might reduce the temperature by … 0.04-0.07o Celsius by 2100. This reduction is too small to be perceived by the human senses.… Read more

Another poor climate policy: electric cars

Belief that EVs don’t emit carbon is wrong, and they are hard on roads, tires, and drivers in an accident

By Bjorn Lomborg, National Post, April 01, 2025

The electric car is widely seen as a simple, clean solution to climate change. In reality, it’s inefficient, relies on massive subsidies, and leaves behind a trail of pollution and death that is seldom acknowledged.… Read more

Carney is a ‘globalist,’ and that’s very bad for Canadians if he’s new PM

Globalists have big plans for how the Canadian economy should reorganized, including elimination of free markets, top-down government, and elimination of fossil fuel use

By ROBERT LYMAN, National Post, April 03, 2025

“Globalization” was useful shorthand for the view that held sway in the 1980s and 1990s of a world of free and open markets and self-restraining governments. In many circles it has now been replaced by “globalism.” … Read more

Common sense on climate & energy: Let’s nix Net Zero!

Videos of speakers at launch of Energy & Climate at a Glance, presented by Friends of Science on March 11, 2025, in Calgary.

This post features videos of talks by Friends of Science president Ron Davison and Climate Realists of BC member Paul MacRae at the March 11, 2025 launch of Energy & Climate at a Glance: Facts on 22 Prominent Climate Topics, to which both speakers contributed.

Ron spoke on “Net Zero – Climate Policy is All Pain, for Minimal Gain!” and Paul’s talk was entitled “Why We Can’t Abandon Fossil Fuels, and Why We Shouldn’t.” To see the videos, click on the images below.… Read more

In alarmist imaginations, January 2025 was ‘hottest on record’; in reality, it was darned cold

Climate scientists say month was actually quite toasty, apart from all the ‘stretched’ Polar Vortex ‘cold snaps’ that made most of it chilly

By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, March 12, 2025

We continue to be baffled by alarmist claims that the long, cold winter of 2024-25 did not happen, is not happening, and must not happen.

Sometimes things occur that surprise us and run contrary to our general understanding of the world, but when they do we notice them and admit them. (Under which heading file that thus far in 2025 Arctic sea ice extent is at its lowest in a decade, the opposite of 2024.)… Read more

Net Zero is Sinking Europe’s Economy – Is Canada Next?

By Ken Wilson

European countries have led the drive to adopt green energy policies.  Their collective experiences provide a sobering message for the rest of the world on the costs and ineffectiveness of green energy policies. 

When energy costs rise, almost all other costs in a society are affected, leading to more regulation, rising costs, rising taxes, rising subsidies, rising indebtedness, and rising inflation.  It is also leading to deindustrialization as European manufactured goods become increasingly uncompetitive.  … Read more

CO2’s effect on global warming: It isn’t what we’re told

As CO2 increases in the atmosphere, its warming power diminishes over time to near-zero. This simple physics is ignored by the climate alarmist community

By Roger Palmer, guest post on Andrew Roman blog, Oct. 11, 2024

As the sun heats the earth’s surface, the earth radiates infrared energy back into space. The earth slowly heats up until the amount of infrared energy it radiates into space equals the amount of solar energy absorbed by the earth’s surface.  … Read more

Beware the Liberal switcheroo on climate policy

Freeland and Carney may ‘axe’ the consumer carbon tax, but they’ll likely keep all the other anti-carbon policies on the books

By Robert Lyman, National Post, Jan. 23, 2025

Filmmaker and comedian Woody Allen often uses a rhetorical technique called a switcheroo. A switcheroo is a sudden unexpected variation or reversal of words, in Woody’s case used for humorous effect. For example, he once claimed that he carried a bullet in his breast pocket because someone once threw a bible at him and the bullet saved his life.

The aspiring leaders of the Liberal party are no strangers to the technique.… Read more

Why climate ideology is dying

Even climate doomsayers don’t believe their hype any more—why should the general public?

By Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 28, 2025

Momentous social movements begin to die the moment adherents figure out their leaders don’t believe what they say. Liberal Protestantism’s long decline started in the 1950s, when congregants began to wonder if their ministers still believed the old creeds (they didn’t). Communism dies wherever it’s tried because sooner or later the proletariat realize their self-appointed champions aren’t particularly interested in equality. Many sects and cults dwindle the moment their supposedly ascetic leaders are revealed to be libertines.

Something similar is happening to climate ideology.… Read more

Mark Carney as Liberal leader is just Justin 2.0—and that’s bad news for Canada

Carney will continue Trudeau ‘de-growth’ policies that have damaged Canada’s economy and society

By TERENCE CORCORAN, National Post, Jan. 17, 2025

Mark Carney has been on the Canadian political leadership radar for more than a decade, bleeping away well before Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were elected in 2015. He continued to feed his political ambitions over the years, including his time as a central banker hectoring corporations for hoarding “dead money.” Then he moved on to his guiding ideological theme, which is that if humans are allowed to pursue their own interests in a free-market economy, they will destroy life on Earth.… Read more