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 […]
Climate Porn: the Hottest Day on Record
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 […]
The Fraser Institute Published My Article on Canada’s Net Zero Law
This is a somewhat different, peer reviewed and more scholarly article than I posted here earlier. Here is a link to the publication: fraserinstitute.org
All that Glitters Isn’t Green. Or Renewable.
Green energy, green cars, green jobs, green policies, cleaner and greener – notice how everything green is good? Today, “green” is not just a colour, it is a synonym for “good”; as […]
My article today in the Energy Regulation Quarterly on Canada’s Net Zero Target Legislation
For those of you with an interest in climate change challenges and laws, here today’s publication, in the Energy Quarterly Review, of my critique of the Canadian law that set our CO2 […]
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