Elected leaders lack education in physics

Politicians ignore the way the world actually works in favor of political narratives like ‘catastrophic global warming’ because they don’t understand science

By Michael Blair, What is Wrong with Canadian and American democracies? June 12, 2023

Over the course of human history, great minds like Fourier, Maxwell, Turing, da Vinci, Einstein and a host of others observed that nature works in somewhat predictable ways leading to the development of “laws of physics”—things like F=MA and you can’t push a rope.

This understanding allowed mankind to harness energy to develop ways to advance economic growth and improve the way humans lived migrating from caves to cities and from log cabins to high rise towers serviced by electric power, heated and cooled, impervious to the weather and comfortable to live in.… Read more

Think ‘global warming’ is causing more forest fires? The media thinks so; IPCC does not

The IPCC does not support strong claims of detection or attribution of ‘fire weather’ to climate change and is silent on trends in fire numbers and area burned. These conclusions are contrary to almost all media reporting.

By Roger Pielke, Jr., The Honest Broker, June 6, 2023

Wildfire, common to many healthy ecosystems, is a particularly challenging problem for society because of its impacts on property and health. It is also challenging because people like to locate themselves in fire-prone places and do things that ignite fires. We have learned through hard experience that complete suppression of wildfire is not the best policy — despite what Smokey Bear says — as it can actually lead to even greater and more harmful wildfire events.… Read more

The Pleistocene: Much warmer than today, but with low CO2 levels

Changes in ocean circulation patterns have a significantly larger effect on atmospheric temperature than the concentration of CO2, study finds

By Dr. Matthew Wielicki, Principia Scientific International, June 6, 2023

The Pleistocene epoch is a significant division of geologic time that occurred within the Cenozoic era, following the Pliocene epoch and preceding the Holocene epoch, which is the current epoch. The Pleistocene epoch spanned from approximately 2.6 million years ago (mya) to about 11,700 years ago.

During the Pleistocene, Earth experienced a series of repeated glaciations and interglacial periods. Vast ice sheets covered large portions of the Northern Hemisphere, including parts of North America, Europe, and Asia.… Read more

Ireland to slaughter 200,000 cows to fight ‘global warming’

Radical green agenda ‘absolute madness’

By Frank Bergman, Slay News, June 3, 2023

Ireland’s government is pushing plans to slaughter a staggering 200,000 healthy cows to fight so-called “global warming,” according to reports. The move is part of a broader plan by Irish lawmakers to meet the radical goals of the globalist green agenda.

To slash the nation’s “emissions,” the government wants to gut the national dairy herd by 10 percent.… Read more

Net Zero: Billions of dollars of pain each year for minuscule environmental gain

Fraser Institute study shows 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan will cost Canadian economy $45-billion in 2030 alone, reduce global emissions by 4/10 of a percentage point

By Kenneth P. Green, Fraser Institute, June 1, 2023

In 2021, the Government of Canada enacted the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, more commonly known as “Net-Zero Emissions 2050.” The Act aims to ensure that by the year 2050, Canada’s emissions of greenhouse gases are balanced by actions within Canada that pull greenhouse gases back out of the atmosphere, or at least, prevent some from entering that would otherwise have done so.

As part of this goal, Canada enacted an interim plan, the 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, with a sub-component on the greenhouse-gas emissions that come from Canada’s oil and gas sector, a sector mostly found in Western Canada.… Read more

What climate crisis? Warming times are good for Earth

Earth’s geologic history shows that past warming has never been driven by an increase in carbon dioxide

By Ian Plimer, The Spectator, Jan. 14, 2023

For more than 80 per cent of its existence, Earth has been a warm wet greenhouse planet with no ice. We live in unusual times, when ice occurs on continents. This did not happen overnight.

The great southern continent, Gondwanaland, formed about 550 million years ago. It occupied 20 per cent of the area of our planet and included Antarctica, South America, Australia, South Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Gondwanaland was covered by ice when it drifted across the South Pole 360-255 million years ago.… Read more

‘Renewable’ energy even more destructive than fossil-fuel technology

Solar panels, wind mills or electric cars mean mining more copper, lithium, iron and aluminum along with the rare earth technology metals. That means vastly more destructive scraping and digging of ocean floors, rainforests and tundras on a scale inconceivable to most environmentalists

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee, April 7, 2023

“Sometime during this century, it is highly likely that worldwide depletion of natural resources will force an entire reorganization of social and economic structures, perhaps violently.” — Walter Youngquist, ‘Our Plundered Planet

We are going to have to dramatically downsize the dream of a future in which we replace 150-year-old fossil-fuel infrastructure with “clean energy” by 2050.That’s… Read more

Net Zero strategy is far from ‘clean and green’

Andrew Nikiforuk article shows that dream of a renewable energy future is not only fantasy, but ‘vastly destructive’

By Terence Corcoran, National Post, May 3, 2023

Exactly how clean and green is the net-zero economic strategy? It’s a question raised in a revealing commentary by veteran Canadian environmental journalist Andrew Nikiforuk. Writing in The Tyee, a Vancouver-based online publication, Nikiforuk reviews the work of academics and a “rising chorus of renewable energy skeptics” who believe that the great transition to a renewable energy future is a green techno-dream that is “vastly destructive.”… Read more

Sask. PM Moe isn’t buying Net Zero, nor should he

Province won’t ‘attempt the impossible’ by moving to a higher-cost energy regime that would cripple its industry and agriculture

By Rex Murphy, National Post, May 19, 2023

In this current mad moment in Canadian politics, when the nation’s global warming synod (the high priest being the most frequent flyer in the country, Justin Trudeau) is handing out billions of dollars from an exhausted treasury to carmakers if they locate in Ontario, Moe has most sensibly held up a “hold on!” sign. Very daring, Mr. Premier.… Read more