An Old Story is Still New In 2024, a member of the climate panic group “Last Generation Canada”, university student Étienne Eason, struggling with ecoanxiety, vandalized an Ottawa museum’s dinosaur replica. In […]
June 20th is Vigilante Day in Canada
Once the election is over we can look ahead to what the new government should do – ASAP. June 20 is Vigilante Day in Canada. That’s when vigilantes – self appointed prosecutors […]
The Supreme Court Was Wrong on Climate Change
I have great respect for Canada’s Supreme Court, their long hours of work and the difficult decisions to make. Even if I might have decided a case differently, I usually find its […]
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 […]
Climate Porn: the Hottest Day on Record
Escape Your Bubble What you read on line about climate change is carefully targeted by social media algorithms and cookies to keep you in your ideological comfort zone. The TV news is […]
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