“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 In many circles it has now been replaced by “globalism.”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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Across the world, public finances are stretched dangerously thin. Per person growth continues dropping while costs are climbing for pensions, education, health care, and defence. These urgent priorities could easily require an additional three to six per cent of GDP. Yet green campaigners are loudly calling for governments to spend up to 25 per cent of our GDP choking growth in the name of climate change.… Read more
The alarmist narrative (more accurately a mantra) is simple. Humanity’s fossil fuel use is almost exclusively responsible for the atmospheric Greenhouse Gas (primarily CO2) concentration rise since the pre-industrial era. Notwithstanding that the narrative ignores water (roughly 95% of the Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere), those rising concentrations will lead to catastrophically high temperatures and complete global ecosystem destruction. … Read more