Common sense on climate & energy: Let’s nix Net Zero!

Videos of speakers at launch of Energy & Climate at a Glance, presented by Friends of Science on March 11, 2025, in Calgary.

This post features videos of talks by Friends of Science president Ron Davison and Climate Realists of BC member Paul MacRae at the March 11, 2025 launch of Energy & Climate at a Glance: Facts on 22 Prominent Climate Topics, to which both speakers contributed.

Ron spoke on “Net Zero – Climate Policy is All Pain, for Minimal Gain!” and Paul’s talk was entitled “Why We Can’t Abandon Fossil Fuels, and Why We Shouldn’t.” To see the videos, click on the images below.Read more

The IPCC vs. the Facts

This hour-long video by Climate Realists of British Columbia member Ken Wilson, a retired engineer, can by viewed by clicking here or on the video. It examines them many ways that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) distorts climate and weather facts to creating fears of a coming “climate catastrophe.”

The PDF version of The IPCC vs. the Facts is available for downloading in two parts:

Part 1

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John Rustad, MLA, ousted from BC United for climate heresy

In a Friends of Science video conversation, Patrick Hunt, President of Climate Realists of B.C., discusses how former Liberal B.C. MLA and now leader of the B.C. Conservative Party John Rustad was ousted from the Liberal Party (now B.C. United) because he supported a more realistic view of how we should deal with climate change. To view the video, click on the image below.

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Video: Why are we so worried about ‘climate change’? Once you learn how the panic started, you’ll know you can relax

By David Jones, Climate Realists of B.C., Jan. 23, 2024

Below is the text of meterologist David Jones’ short video (one minute) on the origins of the “climate crisis” scare. It’s on the YouTube channel “Is This Climate Change?”. Click on the video or this link to see the video.

Hi everyone. My name is David Jones. I’m a meteorologist, a climate realist and I have some good news.

1) The weather hasn’t changed and  

2) there is no climate emergency.

Why do so many people believe otherwise? It’s a long story that begins with a Canadian who said this:

“We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse.” 

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Is 5,000 ppm of CO2 dangerous for health? No, says a former submariner

Climate Realists of B.C. President Patrick Hunt describes his experiences on a submarine when CO2 levels rose as high as 5,000 parts per million

Patrick Hunt, president of the Climate Realists of British Columbia, discusses the challenges of climate models. During his service with the Canadian Navy, Patrick served on a submarine that had CO2 levels of at 5,000 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2), with no ill-effects. After that, he was involved in custom software applications and high-tech.

In this Friends of Science interview, he discusses how climate models are made of bits and bytes” as opposed to toy models, which are actually physical and made to exact scale of the “real thing.”Read more

A brief guide to carbon dioxide and why we shouldn’t be afraid of it!

This is the link to a 20-minute YouTube video that debunks many of the myths about the “dangers” of too much carbon dioxide, and offers many facts about carbon dioxide as a benefit to the planet and humanity. By the end you should be well-informed on the topic! To view, just click on the image.

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