Category: Climate realism

While climate change makes fires more likely, it’s poor forestry management that makes them more destructive

By Tristan Hopper, July 24, 2021, National Post

With more than 300 active fires and thousands under evacuation orders, B.C. is currently on the fast track to the most destructive wildfire season in its history.

Although the fires have become an emblem around the world of the destructive effects of climate change, many of the province’s forestry experts are pointing out that while climate change makes fires more likely, it’s poor forestry management that is helping to make them more destructive.

“Even if we were able to turn back the dial on climate change we would still have wildfires that are severe and would burn people’s houses down,” said Jesse Zeman, director of fish and wildlife restoration with the B.C.… Read more

Smith could blow up her UCP government in two minutes by sounding even faintly like federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault

By Don Braid, National Post, June 12, 2023

Danielle Smith, a very talkative premier, refuses to utter two little words: Climate change.

After her cabinet was sworn in last Friday, Smith was asked by columnist Graham Thomson: “Do you accept that climate change is driving the larger wildfire seasons, not just here but across the country?”

Smith answered that human activity causes most fires. She went on to talk about federal policies and Alberta’s agreement with achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.… Read more

Better forest management, not curbs on carbon, would reduce fire risk

By Kenneth P. Green,  National Post, June 9, 2023

Unless you’ve been living in an underground cave, you’re aware that there’s been a massive explosion of forest-fire activity across Canada that’s sending clouds of smoke south to our American neighbours. Not surprisingly, they’re not happy — the orange skies are more than a bit reminiscent of Hollywood post-apocalyptic movies.   

Here at home, our usual opportunistic climate alarmists including Prime Minister Trudeau, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and the irrepressible Elizabeth May blame the flames on climate change (and not their leadership in Canadian forest policy).… Read more

Politicians ignore the way the world actually works in favor of political narratives like ‘catastrophic global warming’ because they don’t understand science

By Michael Blair, What is Wrong with Canadian and American democracies? June 12, 2023

Over the course of human history, great minds like Fourier, Maxwell, Turing, da Vinci, Einstein and a host of others observed that nature works in somewhat predictable ways leading to the development of “laws of physics”—things like F=MA and you can’t push a rope.

This understanding allowed mankind to harness energy to develop ways to advance economic growth and improve the way humans lived migrating from caves to cities and from log cabins to high rise towers serviced by electric power, heated and cooled, impervious to the weather and comfortable to live in.… Read more

The IPCC does not support strong claims of detection or attribution of ‘fire weather’ to climate change and is silent on trends in fire numbers and area burned. These conclusions are contrary to almost all media reporting.

By Roger Pielke, Jr., The Honest Broker, June 6, 2023

Wildfire, common to many healthy ecosystems, is a particularly challenging problem for society because of its impacts on property and health. It is also challenging because people like to locate themselves in fire-prone places and do things that ignite fires. We have learned through hard experience that complete suppression of wildfire is not the best policy — despite what Smokey Bear says — as it can actually lead to even greater and more harmful wildfire events.… Read more

Senator grills Energy Department deputy David Turk on how much warming will be prevented after spending $50-trillion. Turk has no idea. Have a listen….

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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