“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres, July 27, 2023 Introduction Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to make Canada […]
Climate Change: Less Fear, More Facts
Global Warming Issues and the IPCC: A guest Post by Ken Wilson, P. Eng. (Ret).
Ken Wilson has kindly provided my readers with the excellent summary, below, of his fuller examination of the global warming issues raised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The full […]
Canada’s Rising Carbon Tax and the Supreme Court
Note to readers: A somewhat different, shorter version of this post was published on March 31, 2022 by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) think tank. Your Rising Cost of Energy (and everything else) […]
Fighting Climate Change: Is it Better to be Safe Than Sorry?
Safe or Sorry? Sometimes an idea that appeals strongly to our common sense will be seen as clearly wrong or empty if we examine it more closely. The idea that it is […]
Let’s Stop Pretending We Made Binding Commitments Under the Paris Agreement
Introduction It is past time for Canada to stop pretending that it has made binding Paris Agreement “commitments” that must be fulfilled regardless of what the other nations are doing. That implies […]
The Product is Panic
Canada’s ‘Leave it in the Ground’ Energy Policy Recently, the heads of government of Germany and Japan each came, cap in hand, to beg Prime Minister Trudeau to supply them with Canadian […]
Electricity Generation with 100% Renewables is a Fantasy
Renewables advocates have been claiming that solar and wind generation are now the least costly form of generation, and therefore, should replace all fossil fuel generation as quickly as possible. Is this […]
My New Article in the ERQ
was published today, here: https://energyregulationquarterly.ca/articles/all-that-glitters-isnt-green-or-renewable#sthash.zpg3M3cw.dpbs
Russia’s War Has Started The Great U-Turn
The West’s net zero policies, pursued too rapidly, with the wrong technologies, and without regard to energy security, has financed Russia’s war on Ukraine. The Great U-Turn back to fossil fuels has […]
Russia, Ukraine and NATO: What Now?
If you ask the average person on the street in any Western democracy, chances are they will blame only Russian President Vladimir Putin for the war in Ukraine, now in its fourth […]
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