Category: Climate realism

Nuclear power has raised both hope and deep distrust. Can it make a comeback as energy needs increase? Review of The Power of Nuclear, by Marco Visscher, Bloomsbury Sigma, 320 pages, $28 (US)

BY JAMES B. MEIGS, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 04, 2025

THE INDIAN POINT nuclear power plant, on the banks of the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City, first opened in 1962 and was greatly expanded in the 1970s. For many years it was a monument to technological optimism. On a site smaller than that of a shopping mall, the plant’s two reactors could produce over 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply more than a quarter of the city’s power needs—safely and reliably, without a trace of emissions.… Read more

Unlike claims of green campaigners, consumer’ power bills go up—way up—when nations increase their reliance on ‘renewables’ like solar and wind

By Bjorn Lomborg , Wall Street Journal, Jan. 02, 2025

As nations use more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power, a strange thing happens: Our power bills get more expensive. This exposes the environmentalist lie that renewables have already outmatched fossil fuels and that the “green transition” is irreversible even under a second Trump administration.… Read more

It is impossible to overstate the stakes if the world’s energy transition runs off the rails—and it will

By Chris Uhlmann, Sky News of Australia, Nov. 19, 2024

The discord between reality and rhetoric is playing out in real time as the politics driving a warp-speed shift from predictable electricity generation collides with the physics of delivering constant power with inconstant supply.

It is impossible to overstate the stakes if the energy transition runs off the rails. Electricity is civilisation’s nervous system; without it, everything will collapse. What is happening is akin to conducting a proof-of-concept experiment on an incubator with a child inside.… Read more

Fossil fuels are part of almost everything we use, from cars to clothes. Those who call for elimination of oil industry are massively uninformed or simply deluded. 

By Herb Pinder, Western Standard, Nov. 16, 2024

Recently a professor from the University of Regina, Emily Eaton, proposed that we stop subsidies to oil and gas companies and no longer consume fossil fuel energy. She has funny ideas: Unlike electric vehicles, battery manufacturing, solar panels and other beneficiaries, the oil industry is not subsidized. 

These comments follow those of editorialist Phil Tank of the Star Phoenix, a month or two ago, also suggesting oil production in Saskatchewan should cease and desist.… Read more

A primer for politicians, political candidates and voters on the many problems with the theory of ‘human-caused (and potentially apocalyptic) global warming’

By Climate Realists of B.C., Oct 18, 2024

For thirty years, climate has been one of the “third rails” of Canadian politics—politicians do not dare touch it lest they are accused of being “climate deniers,” on a moral par with Holocaust deniers. And so politicians do not speak out against “The Science” of climate, even when it is clearly flawed.

The silence, at least in B.C., was broken in 2022 by then-Liberal MLA, now Conservative Party of B.C. leader John Rustad, who supported a Tweet by climate skeptic Patrick Moore that “the case for CO2 being the control knob of temperature gets weaker every day.”… Read more

Liberals’ contempt for average citizen is breathtaking—we ungrateful cretins won’t even give up meat!

By Lorne Gunter, Toronto Sun, Sept. 24, 2024

According to the Trudeau Liberals there is almost nothing ordinary Canadians do right. These eco-zealots have utter contempt for our way of life.

We don’t heat our homes with the right furnaces. We don’t drive the right kind of cars. Our electricity doesn’t come from the right (renewable) sources. Those of us who farm insist on using fertilizer and pesticides. We like driving holidays and are in favour of new and upgraded highways. We stubbornly refuse to buy electric vehicles.… Read more

Province will lose billions in fuel-tax revenue for little or no benefit in fighting ‘climate change’

By G. Cornelus van Kooten, Climate Realists of B.C., Oct 15, 2024

The idea that vehicles on British Columbia roads should be 90% electric by 2030 and 100% by 2035 is unworkable.

For a start, the province will lose hundreds of millions in revenue—not only is it subsidizing purchases of EVs but, compared to a tax on CO₂, it will lose huge amounts of revenue from fuel taxes—perhaps a billion dollars a year. Moreover, a per-kilometre-driven tax on EVs would cause a backlash from owners and scare off potential EV buyers.… Read more

Homeowners and businesses will be paying thousands for power each month to reduce temperature a tiny 0.003°C

By Jonathan Lesser & Mitchell Rolling, Discovery Institute, Sept. 18, 2024

Net-zero energy policies in the Pacific Northwest will produce staggering costs to individuals and businesses without providing any meaningful environmental benefits, warns a new research report from Discovery Institute’s Reasonable Energy program.

The authors find that Washington’s and Oregon’s plan to reach zero energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will double existing electricity demand at the cost of $549.9 billion, a burden which would be shouldered by Pacific Northwest households and small businesses. … Read more