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Net Zero by 2050 is huge cost for almost zero benefit

Canada’s current plan will cost ¼ million jobs, 7% lower GDP, and $8,000 in lost wages per year

By Bjorn Lomborg, Fraser Institute, April 22, 2025

Canada has made a legal commitment to achieve “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050. Back in 2015, then-Prime Minister Trudeau promised that climate action will “create jobs and economic growth” and the federal government insists it will create a “strong economy.” The truth is that the net zero policy generates vast costs and very little benefit—and Canada would be better off changing direction.… Read more

Another ‘lost decade’ ahead? Yes, if Carney Liberals form government

Under Justin Trudeau’s ‘green’ policy of ‘growing the economy,’ Canada’s economy has fallen far behind other advanced nations. Mark Carney will continue these policies if Canadians don’t wake up

By Paul MacRae, Climate Realists of B.C., April 25, 2025

The pre-election polls show that many Canadian voters wish to reward Justin Trudeau’s ten years of disastrous Liberal economic policies with another four or more years of the same under new party leader Mark Carney. 

While prime minister, Trudeau frequently claimed his policies were aimed at “growing the economy.” But by “growing the economy,” Trudeau didn’t mean the fossil-fuel economy; he meant the still non-existent, all-electric “green” economy.… Read more

Another poor climate policy: electric cars

Belief that EVs don’t emit carbon is wrong, and they are hard on roads, tires, and drivers in an accident

By Bjorn Lomborg, National Post, April 01, 2025

The electric car is widely seen as a simple, clean solution to climate change. In reality, it’s inefficient, relies on massive subsidies, and leaves behind a trail of pollution and death that is seldom acknowledged.… Read more

Carney is a ‘globalist,’ and that’s very bad for Canadians if he’s new PM

Globalists have big plans for how the Canadian economy should reorganized, including elimination of free markets, top-down government, and elimination of fossil fuel use

By ROBERT LYMAN, National Post, April 03, 2025

“Globalization” was useful shorthand for the view that held sway in the 1980s and 1990s of a world of free and open markets and self-restraining governments. In many circles it has now been replaced by “globalism.” … Read more

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

In alarmist imaginations, January 2025 was ‘hottest on record’; in reality, it was darned cold

Climate scientists say month was actually quite toasty, apart from all the ‘stretched’ Polar Vortex ‘cold snaps’ that made most of it chilly

By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, March 12, 2025

We continue to be baffled by alarmist claims that the long, cold winter of 2024-25 did not happen, is not happening, and must not happen.

Sometimes things occur that surprise us and run contrary to our general understanding of the world, but when they do we notice them and admit them. (Under which heading file that thus far in 2025 Arctic sea ice extent is at its lowest in a decade, the opposite of 2024.)… Read more

Net Zero is Sinking Europe’s Economy – Is Canada Next?

By Ken Wilson

European countries have led the drive to adopt green energy policies.  Their collective experiences provide a sobering message for the rest of the world on the costs and ineffectiveness of green energy policies. 

When energy costs rise, almost all other costs in a society are affected, leading to more regulation, rising costs, rising taxes, rising subsidies, rising indebtedness, and rising inflation.  It is also leading to deindustrialization as European manufactured goods become increasingly uncompetitive.  … Read more

CO2’s effect on global warming: It’s a lot less than we’re told

As CO2 increases in the atmosphere, its warming power diminishes over time to near-zero. This simple physics is ignored by the climate alarmist community

By Roger Palmer, guest post on Andrew Roman blog, Oct. 11, 2024

As the sun heats the earth’s surface, the earth radiates infrared energy back into space. The earth slowly heats up until the amount of infrared energy it radiates into space equals the amount of solar energy absorbed by the earth’s surface.  … Read more

Beware the Liberal switcheroo on climate policy

Freeland and Carney may ‘axe’ the consumer carbon tax, but they’ll likely keep all the other anti-carbon policies on the books

By Robert Lyman, National Post, Jan. 23, 2025

Filmmaker and comedian Woody Allen often uses a rhetorical technique called a switcheroo. A switcheroo is a sudden unexpected variation or reversal of words, in Woody’s case used for humorous effect. For example, he once claimed that he carried a bullet in his breast pocket because someone once threw a bible at him and the bullet saved his life.

The aspiring leaders of the Liberal party are no strangers to the technique.… Read more