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Canada’s emissions cap promises high costs, low returns

Ottawa has not yet finalized its proposed regulations. However, the current version is logistically unworkable, overly expensive, and likely to be challenged as unconstitutional.

By Heather Exner-Pirot, Center for North American Prosperity and Security, June 20, 2025

Canada is the world’s third-largest exporter of oil, fourth-largest producer, and top source of imports to the United States. Much of Canada’s oil wealth is concentrated in the oil sands in northern Alberta, which hosts 99 percent of the country’s enormous oil endowment: about 160 billion barrels of proven reserves, of a total resource of approximately 1.8 trillion barrels. This is the major source of oil to the United States refinery complex, a large part of which is optimized for the oil sands’ heavy oil.… Read more

Four Climate Fallacies: Fraser Institute report

Rhetoric—not evidence—dominates climate debate and policy.

By Kenneth Green, Fraser Institute, June 2025

Within the Western tradition, most people would likely agree that challenges such as those posed by man-made climate change are best addressed with pure reason. Risks would be assessed conservatively and objectively and handled using unbiased, pragmatic, effective, efficient control measures that could treat our “climate condition” without causing untoward side-effects such as economic destruction, political discord, social discord, and so on.

Instead, much of the discourse surrounding climate change seems intended to sow political and social discord more than to rationally understand and manage the risks of man-made climate change.… Read more

Understanding Climate Change: A PDF download

Humans cannot affect global temperature change, so damaging Western economies with Net Zero policies is pointless. We can, however, learn to adapt to climate change

By Roger Palmer, Climate Realists of B.C., June 9, 2025

Summary

This paper discusses the many myriad factors that affect the Earth’s climate, many of which are still poorly understood. It presents a number of conclusions:

a) Climate change is a naturally-occurring, cyclic phenomena, and it has been going on for millions of years.… Read more

Texas is hosting the energy of the future—and it isn’t wind and solar

Next-generation power is coming from smaller, cheaper, and much faster to build ‘new nuclear’ reactors

By Stephen McBride, The Rational Optimist Substack, June 1, 2025

Imagine a nuclear reactor the size of a shipping container quietly powering your local hospital. It pumps out energy that’s cleaner than natural gas, more reliable than solar, and safer than any other energy source.… Read more

The physics—and ‘ideological bias’—behind the Iberian electrical grid crash

Nation-wide blackout a wake-up call that ‘sustainable’ wind and solar energy cannot sustain a modern electrical network

By Bjorn Lomborg, Wall Street Journal, June 03, 2025

When a grid failure plunged 55 million people in Spain and Portugal into darkness at the end of April, 2025, it should have been a wake-up call on green energy. Climate activists promised that solar and wind power were the future of cheap, dependable electricity. The massive half-day blackout shows otherwise. The nature of solar and wind generation makes grids that rely on them more prone to collapse—an issue that’s particularly expensive to ameliorate.… Read more

Is climate science a physical science?

By Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), May 31, 2025

This article, while technical, discusses the IPPC’s approach to greenhouse gases and asks: Would a true physical science conclude that increased carbon dioxide, a minor greenhouse gas, is the primary cause of the current ‘global warming’? The article is worth reading for anyone who wants an informed understanding of how a) greenhouse gases actually work and b) how the IPCC distorts the science of GHGs.

Is climate science a physical science? Is it based on physical evidence where the results of experiments and observations are the ultimate judge? As Richard Feynman stated in The Meaning of It All: “If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.”… Read more

The Case for Climate Realism: A Q&A for Politicians and Voters

By Climate Realists of British Columbia, May 2025

The Case for Climate Realism offers 21 Questions and Answers from a factual, climate-realist perspective for politicians, political candidates and voters on the issue of “climate change.” It is in PDF format (1.8MB). For example:… Read more

When it comes to creating climate alarm, BBC’s Mark Poynting shows how it’s done

Broadcaster chooses easy route to creating climate fear—exaggerating the facts about sea-level rise

BY CHRIS MORRISON, The Daily Skeptic, May 22, 2025

A gleeful, self-satisfied Mr. Punch was often heard to remark: “That’s the way to do it.” Today we examine the way that Mark Poynting, one of the BBC’s top doom-mongering Net Zero activists, uses the trusted “scientists say” message to turn a centennial sea level rise of around 30 cm (6 inches) into prose stating: “The world could see hugely damaging sea-level rises of several metres or more over the coming centuries.” … Read more

Net Zero alarmism is a mental illness: Jordan Peterson

Climate hysteria, and policies to ‘cure’ it, are the work of a cabal of ill-informed narcissistic worshippers of fear and force

by Jordan Peterson, The Telegraph, May 22, 2025

An anecdote, to begin.

In 2023, I was sentenced in Canada by the Ontario College of Psychologists and Behavioural Analysts to an unspecified period of professional “re-education” for what has been deemed my unprofessional conduct. If I refused to comply, then the college indicated its duty to revoke my professional licence as a clinical psychologist.… Read more

World Bank climate hypocrisy is penalizing poor nations—and U.S. could stop it

Economic development of African nations is hamstrung when bank’s ‘green’ policies create energy poverty

By Bjorn Lomborg , Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2025

Rich Western nations and their development banks love to parade their climate virtue and wag their fingers at Africa. They insist that the continent leapfrog from no energy to trendy renewables like solar and wind, even as wealthy nations run mostly on fossil fuels. With the biggest voting share in the World Bank, the U.S. has effective veto power over major decisions at the globe’s largest multilateral organization—and the moral duty to put its foot down.… Read more

​Ottawa has not yet finalized its proposed regulations. However, the current version is logistically unworkable, overly expensive, and likely to be challenged as unconstitutional.