Category: Climate facts

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

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

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

‘We are told constantly that Net Zero 2050 is not only something that must be done, but it’s also something that’s going to be good for you and is going to increase economic growth and everyone’s going to be better off. I don’t think that is true.’

By Tim Newark, Daily Express, May 19, 2023

With 800,000 British car-making jobs on the line because we’re not making enough batteries for electric vehicles, leading motor manufacturers are demanding renegotiated trade rules with the EU to give Britain more time to catch up.

Lord Frost, Britain’s chief negotiator for Brexit from 2019 to 2021, is clear where the fault is: “The underlying problem is that we’re rushing at electrification of cars far too fast for the technologies we’ve got,” he insists.… Read more

Question: If science is there and people are aware of climate change, then why do many people seem unconcerned about climate change, uninterested in doing much to respond to the threat, and perhaps even unconvinced that climate change is actually occurring?

By Wayne Bogda, New Real Climate Science, December 16, 3022

When people lie to me, try to coerce me, threaten me, bully me, and censor me, I don’t trust anything they have to say. At any time, on any subject, forever.

When they suggest government action that impoverishes me, enriches the elite, and empowers government, I know they can’t be trusted.… Read more

By Roy Spencer, Global Warming blog, May 9, 2023

We hear that a new El Nino forming in the Pacific Ocean is likely to push global-average temperatures to new record highs in 2023. Setting aside the fact that we have no idea if current temperatures are warmer than during the Medieval Warm Period of ~1,000 years ago, I have to ask…

So what?

Doing something about global warming depends a lot on how much we are asked to pay to fix it. If it was cheap and practical, we would have already transitioned to renewable energy sources.

It also depends upon just how much global warming we have experienced, and whether it is enough to be concerned with.… Read more

Hundreds of billions of dollars designated for wildly premature all-EV mandates will likely become stranded capital because the quantities of minerals needed won’t be available soon enough. In the end, the rush to EVs could even increase global vehicle-related emissions.

By Mark P. Mills, City Journal, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, May 8, 2023

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A dozen states have joined California and many countries in passing legislation to ban the sale of conventional cars and push everyone into electric vehicles (EVs), many within the decade. Similarly, in a feat of regulatory legerdemain, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed emissions rules that would effectively require automakers to sell mostly EVs.… Read more

Battery-powered trucks would cost far more than diesel equivalent, have range of only 150-330 miles, require several charges for a long-distance delivery

Andrew Boyle, first vice-chair of the American Trucking Associations, testified before a US Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on the future of clean vehicles. While acknowledging that cars and light-duty trucks are appropriate for electrification, transport trucks are unsuitable for the following reasons:

• Today, a diesel truck takes 15 minutes to refuel anywhere in the country, giving it a range of 1,200 miles before refueling again.
• Long-haul battery-electric trucks require up to 10 hours to recharge, for a range of 150-330 miles.

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We aren’t suffering more disasters, we are just logging more of them into the UN database. What we should worry about is the looming energy shortage if we hope to read ‘Net Zero’

Paul Homewood, The Conservative Woman, May 5, 2023

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According to Associated Press last year:  “A disaster-weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world, a United Nations report issued Monday says. If current trends continue the world will go from around 400 disasters per year in 2015 to an onslaught of about 560 catastrophes a year by 2030, the scientific report by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said.… Read more