Category: Climate realism

Cost of producing hydrogen is much higher than its energy output, while having zero effect on climate

Jonathan Lesser, New York Post, Feb. 24, 2024

One of the central tenets of the Biden administration’s energy policy is the pursuit of “green” hydrogen, defined as hydrogen manufactured with zero carbon emissions. This push has involved $7 billion dollars in subsidies for the creation of Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs as well as significant tax breaks for hydrogen production through the Inflation Reduction Act. … Read more

Hydrogen cost is 10-20 times natural gas, as shown by collapse of Australian hydrogen venture

By Francis Menton, The Manhattan Contrarian, July 20, 2024

These days, there is lots and lots of news about how the supposed “energy transition” is not happening. It is in Australia that we find the latest news on the inevitable collapse of impossible dream of “green” hydrogen as the means to make electricity from wind and sun work.… Read more

Liberals pretend they are ‘saving the planet’ when in reality they are curbing Canadian prosperity for political gain

By Michael Blair, June 15, 2024, Substack

Canadian Liberals combine a dearth of understanding of the laws of physics with ignorance of the key role that Canadian oil & gas companies play in the Canadian economy. A brief summary of the past decade is a good place to begin.

Provincial treasuries received a total of $150 billion from the oil & gas sector in the decade ending in 2019.… Read more

Climate alarmists have wildly exaggerated the dangers of ‘extreme’ heat, Statscan study finds

By Philip Cross, National Post, June 28, 2024

Last week, Statistics Canada released a study of the impact of extreme heat events on mortality in 12 large Canadian cities. To great fanfare in media reports, it concluded extreme heat events caused an increase of 900 deaths over the 20 years 2000-2020. … Read more

In Guterres’ climate crusade, scientific facts are distorted, risk is exaggerated, ‘science’ is warped by politics and ideology to serve another agenda

By Terence Corcoran, National Post, June 25, 2024,

History will record that the United Nations has established itself as the greatest organizational perpetrator of junk science in modern times, if not of all time, with current UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres destined to be singled out for his personal contribution to the distorted UN climate alarmism.… Read more

Ottawa reluctant to tell Canadians the total bill they will have to pay to ‘fight climate change,’ but it will be about $120,000 per household

By Robert Lyman, Financial Post, May 15, 2024

Among the many questions about the federal government’s policies virtually eliminate Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, one of the hardest to answer concerns the costs to governments, businesses and consumers. This is due partly to a serious failure of governance.

The federal and provincial governments have failed to provide Canadians with an inventory of the measures they have implemented, their costs, their intended beneficiaries and their effectiveness.… Read more

To replace fossil fuel energy worldwide would require the equivalent of 22,000 Site C dams and severely damage our living standards, says Fraser Institute study

By Fraser Institute, June 12, 2024

Canada and other developed countries have committed to achieving “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050.

… but is there any chance we’re actually going to hit that target?

Right now, in 2024, we are at the halfway point between the Kyoto Protocol (the first international treaty to set binding targets for cutting emissions) and that 2050 target.… Read more