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Sask. PM Moe isn’t buying Net Zero, nor should he

Province won’t ‘attempt the impossible’ by moving to a higher-cost energy regime that would cripple its industry and agriculture

By Rex Murphy, National Post, May 19, 2023

In this current mad moment in Canadian politics, when the nation’s global warming synod (the high priest being the most frequent flyer in the country, Justin Trudeau) is handing out billions of dollars from an exhausted treasury to carmakers if they locate in Ontario, Moe has most sensibly held up a “hold on!” sign. Very daring, Mr. Premier.… Read more

Elon Musk: World could sustain ‘many times’ current population

Tesla CEO critical of popular idea that we are exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity—lives of the current eight billion people are improving, not getting worse

By Emily Mangiaracina, Lifesite News, June 9, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now the richest man in the world and a father of eight, is insisting that not only is the earth not overpopulated, but it could healthily sustain “many times” its current population.

In perhaps his most radically unorthodox claim to date about the so-called overpopulation problem, Musk stated Sunday, “Earth could sustain many times its current human population and the ecosystem would be fine. We definitely don’t have ‘too many people.’”… Read more

Britain needs to slow down on move to Net Zero: Peer

‘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

Quora: Why aren’t people responding to the climate change threat?

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

Canada’s climate-policy conundrum: We need political change, but can we convince the public?

Canadians may have to experience the disastrous economic consequences of Net Zero policies before they support a party or parties that seek a more rational course.

By Robert Lyman, Net Zero, 2023

Canada’s economy and the standard of living of its people both rely on the availability of plentiful and relatively inexpensive energy and mineral resources. However, federal and provincial governments seek to implement an extremely costly and high-risk ‘transition’ to energy sources and technologies that are more expensive, less reliable and less secure than the ones now used.

The preponderance of political forces strongly favours the current policy path, and the majority of the public, heavily influenced by the media, supports the “green” agenda.… Read more

If ‘global warming’ is so awful, why do so many Americans migrate to the warmer states?

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

Electric Vehicle illusions—they may even increase emissions

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

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

All-electric truck fleet? It won’t work

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.

The ‘world disaster’ figures are a lie, but just one of many

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

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

City of Ottawa is committing energy suicide

In rejecting a natural gas pipeline upgrade, Ottawa is putting a ‘climate emergency’ over the needs of its citizens

By Patricia Adams & Lawrence Solomon, Epoch Times, June 24, 2022

We may soon need to lay Ottawa to rest, following its decision to deny itself the necessities of life.

The fateful die was cast in May 2022 after the Enbridge energy company made what it believed to be an urgent and uncontroversial application to the Ontario Energy Board to replace a corroded 65-year-old natural gas pipeline—which is at high risk of failing—in the City of Ottawa with a modern pipeline able to reliably meet the city’s needs into the future.… Read more