Month: March 2025

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