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The IPCC does not support strong claims of detection or attribution of ‘fire weather’ to climate change and is silent on trends in fire numbers and area burned. These conclusions are contrary to almost all media reporting.

By Roger Pielke, Jr., The Honest Broker, June 6, 2023

Wildfire, common to many healthy ecosystems, is a particularly challenging problem for society because of its impacts on property and health. It is also challenging because people like to locate themselves in fire-prone places and do things that ignite fires. We have learned through hard experience that complete suppression of wildfire is not the best policy — despite what Smokey Bear says — as it can actually lead to even greater and more harmful wildfire events.… Read more

Senator grills Energy Department deputy David Turk on how much warming will be prevented after spending $50-trillion. Turk has no idea. Have a listen….

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Fraser Institute study shows 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan will cost Canadian economy $45-billion in 2030 alone, reduce global emissions by 4/10 of a percentage point

By Kenneth P. Green, Fraser Institute, June 1, 2023

In 2021, the Government of Canada enacted the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, more commonly known as “Net-Zero Emissions 2050.” The Act aims to ensure that by the year 2050, Canada’s emissions of greenhouse gases are balanced by actions within Canada that pull greenhouse gases back out of the atmosphere, or at least, prevent some from entering that would otherwise have done so.

As part of this goal, Canada enacted an interim plan, the 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, with a sub-component on the greenhouse-gas emissions that come from Canada’s oil and gas sector, a sector mostly found in Western Canada.… Read more

Solar panels, wind mills or electric cars mean mining more copper, lithium, iron and aluminum along with the rare earth technology metals. That means vastly more destructive scraping and digging of ocean floors, rainforests and tundras on a scale inconceivable to most environmentalists

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee, April 7, 2023

“Sometime during this century, it is highly likely that worldwide depletion of natural resources will force an entire reorganization of social and economic structures, perhaps violently.” — Walter Youngquist, ‘Our Plundered Planet’

We are going to have to dramatically downsize the dream of a future in which we replace 150-year-old fossil-fuel infrastructure with “clean energy” by 2050.That’s… Read more

Andrew Nikiforuk article shows that dream of a renewable energy future is not only fantasy, but ‘vastly destructive’

By Terence Corcoran, National Post, May 3, 2023

Exactly how clean and green is the net-zero economic strategy? It’s a question raised in a revealing commentary by veteran Canadian environmental journalist Andrew Nikiforuk. Writing in The Tyee, a Vancouver-based online publication, Nikiforuk reviews the work of academics and a “rising chorus of renewable energy skeptics” who believe that the great transition to a renewable energy future is a green techno-dream that is “vastly destructive.”… Read more