Category: Climate myths

Humanity has seen less burned area since 1900, not more—a fact that is rarely reported

By Bjorn Lomborg, Fraser Institute, April 2025

We hear constant claims that there is more fire in the world, caused by climate. For example, the statistics for Canada show much more area burnt in 2023 than any time since 1970 and it is likely that climate is partially to blame. [See Figure 1, which shows that although 2023 was a severe forest-fire year, the overall number of forest fires and burn area since 1990 is down, not up in Canada. See also Figure 3 in the Addendum for U.S.… Read more

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

Carney will continue Trudeau ‘de-growth’ policies that have damaged Canada’s economy and society

By TERENCE CORCORAN, National Post, Jan. 17, 2025

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

Despite utter failure of predictions of deadly ‘population bomb,’ biologist still preaching humanity’s doom while ignoring role of human ingenuity

Editorial, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 4, 2023

We’ll say this for Paul Ehrlich—at least he’s consistent. In 1968 the Stanford biologist famously declared that “the battle to feed all humanity is over,” at a time when the earth’s population was about 3.5 billion. Today we have a population of eight billion (better fed than ever), yet there was Mr. Ehrlich, on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, still predicting that “humanity is very busily sitting on a limb that we’re sawing off.”… Read more