Climate realism – Page 13 – Climate Realists of British Columbia

What does it cost to run an electric vehicle? A lot more than you’d think!

‘Going Green’ is much more damaging to the environment than meets the eye

As a retired electrical engineer, I can tell you that unless your house has a 250 amp service entry cable and main breaker you have no business installing a 60 amp residential car charger. Typical line feeds are 100 to 150 amp service. In the summer with 60 amp Air Conditioning (2.5 tons and up) you could not charge your car and run your AC at the same time. Little would be left for appliances and lighting. That is the part they don’t tell you.

Tesla said it best when they called its battery an Energy Storage System.… Read more

Hawaii fire was ‘human-caused,’ but not by anthropogenic ‘global warming’

State government more interested in stopping ‘climate change’ than dealing with immediate dangers

By Connor O’Keefe, Austrian Mises Institute, August 17, 2023

The most destructive natural disasters are never 100 percent natural. Human choices, land use, and government policies play a big role in how harmful hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, flash floods, and wildfires are to the affected communities.

And after catastrophes like the wildfire that destroyed much of the historic Hawaiian city of Lahaina on August 8, it’s worth taking stock of how much of the disaster was the result not of natural or accidental factors, but of policies and institutions that can be changed.… Read more

UK shifting to ‘pragmatic’ climate policies—Canada should, too

After voters speak, PM Rishi Sunak pulling back on Boris Johnson’s aggressive phaseouts of natural gas boilers and gas-powered cars

By Jack Mintz, Financial Post, Aug. 11, 2023

Barely a nanosecond into our holiday trip to London last week, our airport cabdriver started telling us about the city’s “despised” Ulez (ultra-low emission zone) tax. Originally put in place in 2019 to curb pollution, it is being extended by the current mayor, Sadiq Khan, to include the outer boroughs and triple the area covered, effective Aug. 29.

A daily charge of £12.50 (roughly C$21) applies to each car and van that emits more nitrogen dioxide than allowed under an EU standard adopted in 2014.… Read more

Media-induced fear of global warming, not global warming, is damaging our mental health

Climate anxiety makes no sense—humanity has survived heat waves for thousands of years without air conditioning. We can adapt to current and future ‘climate change’ if we don’t lose our cool

By Allysia Finley, Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2023

The media wants you to know it’s hot outside. “‘Heat health emergency’: Nearly half the US at risk,” CNN proclaimed last week as temperatures climbed above 90 degrees in much of the country.

If heat waves were as deadly as the press proclaims, Homo sapiens couldn’t have survived thousands of years without air conditioning. Yet here we are. Humans have shown remarkable resilience and adaptation—at least until modern times, when half of society lost its cool over climate change.… Read more

White House inadvertently tells the truth—we’re not facing a catastrophe from climate change

Today’s warming of 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2°F) has reduced GDP by less than 0.5%. That is trivial, considering real GDP has grown by more than 800% since 1950. And the same will be true of future warming.

By Steven E. Koonin, Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2023

Steven Koonin is a professor at New York University, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.”

The journalist Michael Kinsley famously noted that “a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” By that standard, the White House committed a doozy in March when it released a paper on climate change’s effect on the U.S.… Read more

A Swiss view of the ‘climate crisis’—a green dictatorship is besieging Germany

The Greens are rebuilding society with the energy transition just as much as with gender speech. They have long since achieved cultural domination, for example in the media. The majority of Germans think differently, but who cares about them?

By Eric Gujer, “Der Andere Blick”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 28, 2023

The situation is simmering now in German politics. The success of the AFD [Alternativ für Deutschland – political party to the right of the Conservative Party] is only a symptom of this; the real reason lies elsewhere. Citizens are fed up with the mixture of restrictions and moral demands, which increasingly govern their lives.… Read more

Climate change catastrophism based on culture, not science

Only culture can explain why so many people are willing to incur immense cost to avert a supposed existential threat without proof of either its existence or our ability to alter its impact.

By Joe Oliver, National Post, July 26, 2023

The climate-change movement is a powerful cultural entity. It does not affirm or negate the reality of its core narrative, which is for science to decide. Culture does, however, explain the power and prevalence of the narrative, the political and societal responses to it and the apparent willingness of many people to incur immense cost to avert a supposed existential threat, without proof of either its existence or our ability to alter its impact.… Read more

Global ‘progressives’ are enemies of progress

Reasonable people are tired of pessimistic and divisive hectoring from our betters, urging us (but not requiring themselves) to sacrifice more and settle for less.

By Joe Oliver, National Post, July 21, 2023

Back in 1961, American conservative intellectual William F. Buckley sardonically observed that “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard faculty.” He was saying that the average person has more common sense than esteemed academics. His remark has even greater resonance 62 years later, now that academia has lost its way in woke madness. But the observation applies equally to progressive politicians and international bureaucrats.… Read more

‘Climate change’ is the new COVID—an attempt to shut you up

The real target of the climate alarmists is freedom, just as it was for COVID

By Jeffrey A. Tucker, Epoch Times, July 20, 2023

Listening to National Public Radio (NPR) just now (why do I do this?), the lead item was about flooding in Kentucky. It seems that it rained a lot and some streets became impassable. Fascinating right? But why is this bit of local news a top-of-the-hour blast from government radio?

You know why: the whole of mainstream press has shifted completely from COVID panic to Climate Change panic. Everything qualifies as evidence of a new crisis: smoke in the air, rain on the ground, sun in the sky, sand in the wind, you name it.… Read more

There is no ‘climate crisis’: Nobel-winning physicist

‘The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.’

By Andreas Wailzer, LifeSite News, July 13, 2023

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist has criticized alarmist climate predictions and said that he does not believe that there is a “climate crisis.”

During his speech at the “Quantum Korea 2023” event, Dr. John Clauser said, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis,” according to a report by Seoul Economic Daily that has been translated into English by the CO2 Coalition.

Clauser added that “key [climate] processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by approximately 200 times” and accused the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of spreading misinformation. … Read more