Category: Climate realism

‘If CO2 is such a good climate driver, why doesn’t it drive the climate good?’ CO₂concentrations may contribute to temperature changes, but they do not drive the climate

By Ron Davison, Friends of Science, January 2024

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

The United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, Germany, and many other countries are abandoning Net Zero policies that are increasing energy costs for their citizens

By Pilita Clark, National Post, Dec. 26, 2024

A few days after Donald Trump won the United States election, I was at the UN climate COP in Azerbaijan where I ran into the head of a climate change think-tank who said something unexpected.

He told me his U.S. team had adopted the same communications guidelines the group used in China, where independent research groups tread carefully to avoid rattling Beijing’s authoritarian regime. His U.S. staff had to ensure all public comments were politically neutral, and avoid any moves that could be construed as overt attacks on the administration.… Read more

Nuclear power has raised both hope and deep distrust. Can it make a comeback as energy needs increase? Review of The Power of Nuclear, by Marco Visscher, Bloomsbury Sigma, 320 pages, $28 (US)

BY JAMES B. MEIGS, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 04, 2025

THE INDIAN POINT nuclear power plant, on the banks of the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City, first opened in 1962 and was greatly expanded in the 1970s. For many years it was a monument to technological optimism. On a site smaller than that of a shopping mall, the plant’s two reactors could produce over 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply more than a quarter of the city’s power needs—safely and reliably, without a trace of emissions.… Read more

Unlike claims of green campaigners, consumer’ power bills go up—way up—when nations increase their reliance on ‘renewables’ like solar and wind

By Bjorn Lomborg , Wall Street Journal, Jan. 02, 2025

As nations use more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power, a strange thing happens: Our power bills get more expensive. This exposes the environmentalist lie that renewables have already outmatched fossil fuels and that the “green transition” is irreversible even under a second Trump administration.… Read more

Reliance on ‘clean’ independent power producers means utility lacks ‘reserve capacity’ to meet emergencies and future demand, including switch to EVs

Climate Realists of B.C., December 4, 2024

Can BC Hydro provide the electrical energy required to achieve the “reduced emissions” goals set in the provincial government’s Clean Energy Act 2010?  The British Columbia government believes it can, now that the Site C Hydro project is completed.… Read more

It is impossible to overstate the stakes if the world’s energy transition runs off the rails—and it will

By Chris Uhlmann, Sky News of Australia, Nov. 19, 2024

The discord between reality and rhetoric is playing out in real time as the politics driving a warp-speed shift from predictable electricity generation collides with the physics of delivering constant power with inconstant supply.

It is impossible to overstate the stakes if the energy transition runs off the rails. Electricity is civilisation’s nervous system; without it, everything will collapse. What is happening is akin to conducting a proof-of-concept experiment on an incubator with a child inside.… Read more

Fossil fuels are part of almost everything we use, from cars to clothes. Those who call for elimination of oil industry are massively uninformed or simply deluded. 

By Herb Pinder, Western Standard, Nov. 16, 2024

Recently a professor from the University of Regina, Emily Eaton, proposed that we stop subsidies to oil and gas companies and no longer consume fossil fuel energy. She has funny ideas: Unlike electric vehicles, battery manufacturing, solar panels and other beneficiaries, the oil industry is not subsidized. 

These comments follow those of editorialist Phil Tank of the Star Phoenix, a month or two ago, also suggesting oil production in Saskatchewan should cease and desist.… Read more

By Climate Realists of B.C., Oct 18, 2024

For thirty years, climate has been one of the “third rails” of Canadian politics—politicians do not dare touch it lest they are accused of being “climate deniers,” on a moral par with Holocaust deniers. And so politicians do not speak out against “The Science” of climate, even when it is clearly flawed.

The silence, at least in B.C., was broken in 2022 by then-Liberal MLA, now Conservative Party of B.C. leader John Rustad, who supported a Tweet by climate skeptic Patrick Moore that “the case for CO2 being the control knob of temperature gets weaker every day.”… Read more

Liberals’ contempt for average citizen is breathtaking—we ungrateful cretins won’t even give up meat!

By Lorne Gunter, Toronto Sun, Sept. 24, 2024

According to the Trudeau Liberals there is almost nothing ordinary Canadians do right. These eco-zealots have utter contempt for our way of life.

We don’t heat our homes with the right furnaces. We don’t drive the right kind of cars. Our electricity doesn’t come from the right (renewable) sources. Those of us who farm insist on using fertilizer and pesticides. We like driving holidays and are in favour of new and upgraded highways. We stubbornly refuse to buy electric vehicles.… Read more