Category: Climate realism

EV mandate was always a pipe dream—time to end it once and for all

If Carney serious about turning Canada’s economy around, he will put delusional EV policy out of its misery and return to market-driven solution rather than government-mandated one

By ADAM PANKRATZ, National Post, Sept 9, 2025

Those with an attentive ear may have picked up on the distinct sound of sobbing emanating from the Department of Canadian Identity and Culture. They are the sobs of its minister, erstwhile minister of environment and climate change, Steven Guilbeault, watching the slow but certain immolation of Canada’s electric vehicle sales mandate, as it goes up in smoke. … Read more

More Europeans turning cold shoulder to Net Zero

Voters are finally realizing the enormous costs of alarmist climate policies and are in revolt

By Joseph C. Sternberg, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 12, 2025

Remember net zero? Europe’s politicians wish you’d forget, as the Continent rushes en masse for the climate-policy exits this autumn.… Read more

Learning to love nuclear power

By exaggerating the risks of climate change, environmental activists have undermined public support for curbs on carbon and opened the door for the nuclear solution

By PHILIP CROSS, National Post, Sept. 2, 2025

In her new book, Atomic Dreams, freelance journalist Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow explores the growing popularity of nuclear power as a source of clean electricity, which its advocates tout as “split, don’t emit.” Along the way, she exposes some of the broader problems undermining the environmental movement’s approach to climate change.… Read more

New study finds sea levels rising much less than climate alarmists predict

Seas rising only 1.5 mm/year (6 inches/century), not the 3-4 mm/year claimed by IPCC, report says

​By Anthony Blair, New York Post, Sept. 4, 2025

​Global sea levels have not continued to rise at the rates predicted by many scientists — and there is no evidence that climate change has contributed to any such acceleration, a new first-of-its-kind study has claimed.… Read more

The climate-related financial-risk boondoggle

Attempts to ‘green’ finance are based on bad methods and severe conflicts of interest that put global monetary policy in peril—and Mark Carney is at the centre of it

By Jessica Wienkle, The EcoModernist/BreakThrough Institute, August 22, 2025

Over the past month, the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), has come under serious criticism for implementing modeling methods that are meaningless—and quite so, even in the broader context of increasingly meaningless climate change risk calculations. … Read more

Why more greenhouse gases cannot cause more warming: A report by two prominent physicists

Far from being dangerous, as the IPCC teaches, more carbon dioxide will create more food. However, driving GHG emissions to Net Zero and eliminating fossil fuels would be disastrous for billions of people

By Richard Lindzen & William Happer, CO2 Coalition, June 7, 2025

Below is the executive summary of a paper by physicists Richard Lindzen and William Happer that undermines the views of the IPCC and many governments that carbon dioxide is a harmful greenhouse gas that will cause unrestricted warming if drastic carbon emissions are not instituted. For the PDF version of the full paper click on this link.… Read more

Canada, U.S., Europe will become more ‘livable’ in the future thanks to ‘global warming’!

Prediction of ‘extreme’ warming by 2070 shows that, far from facing a climate catastrophe, Canadians, most Americans, and most Europeans will actually be better off

By Climate Realists of B.C., August 29, 2025

In October 2021, the Financial Times of London published a map showing the climate-alarmist view of what our world will be like in 2070 in terms of “livability” (see Figure 1).1

  1. “Climate change could bring near-unliveable conditions for 3bn people, say scientists,” by Steven Bernard, Dan Clark and Sam Joiner, Financial Times, Oct. 31, 2021. The article is behind a pay wall, but you might find it with the search terms “livability map 2070 financial times” [↩]
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Adios, Climate Apocalypse!

Arctic ice isn’t shrinking; coral reefs are thriving. Does this mean the death of climate alarmism?

By Michael Shellenberger, Public News, Aug. 21, 2025

It’s been a bad couple of years for the climate apocalypse. In 2022, scientists announced that coral was at record levels on the Great Barrier Reef, after decades of claiming it would all die out. In 2023, Greta Thunberg moved on to battling Israel a year after making clear that she had viewed climate change as a tool to fight “the whole capitalist system.”

And last year, the New York Times was forced to acknowledge that 89% of atolls, like the Maldives, were either growing in size or not shrinking, after the media and alarmists had claimed, for years, that climate change would wipe them out.… Read more

In poor countries, Net Zero isn’t the goal—it’s the problem

Silly rhetoric about curbing carbon emissions won’t give humanity the power it needs. Our best strategy is greater use of natural gas now leading to nuclear power in the near future

By M.H. WARD, Times Colonist, June 13, 2025

The last thing the world needs is more ill-informed amateur dramatics from unruly mobs of self-styled activists.

In his June 5 opinion article, “Our only hope is to become environmental activists,” Frants Attorp tells us that “global temperatures keep rising in tandem with greenhouse gases,” but fails to present a solution other than that we must “adjust our lifestyle choices.”… Read more

Think wildfires have never been this bad, thanks to ‘climate change’? The historical data says otherwise

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