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Ontario’s green energy experience: sobering lessons for sustainable climate change policies

A new report from the C.D. Howe Institute finds Ontario’s green energy policies have yielded moderate environmental gains while drastically increasing energy prices. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Everyone’s a climate change leader, until their claim becomes quantifiable

There may not be a metric for sincerity and earnestness but there is a metric for something else: fuel poverty. Continue reading

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Ontario climate change plan could spike hydro, natural gas rates

(May 17, 2016) $7-billion plan seeks to phase out natural gas.

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The slow, sure death of “climate change” lies

(May 23, 2014) Climate change has been happening before and since the rise of civilization. The Earth’s climate is primarily a reflection of solar radiation or the lack of it. Lawrence Solomon is quoted in this article published by Canada Free Press. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Why humans don’t have much to do with climate change

(December 9, 2013) Global cooling scientists look to Earth’s history for tomorrow’s climate forecast and have found temperatures on Earth have peaked, as they have peaked countless times before, and are now falling. Continue reading

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The top 5 lies Of Obama’s climate change speech

(June 26, 2013) President Obama’s recent presentation to Georgetown University rolled out a major plan to combat climate change in a speech “laden with myths, fables, distortions and outright lies” according to this editorial by Investors.com. Lawrence Solomon is quoted. Continue reading

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Joe Oliver sparks environmentalist fury as Tory ministers head in opposite directions on climate change debate

(April 13, 2013) When Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver appeared to downplay the urgency of fighting climate change, his comments took on a life of their own amongst environmentalists, who bombarded social media with comments questioning the Harper government’s dedication to slowing global warming. An article by Lawrence Solomon was quoted in the ensuing furore. Continue reading

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Joubert on climate change science

To the extent that global warming has increased awareness of the environment and encouraged respect for our planet, it is definitely good, but I do not believe it right to create unnecessary fear. To contend that there is a scientific consensus on global warming is outright deception. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Canadians lead western world in fearing climate change

(April 19, 2011) A new Ipsos poll shows that Canadians fear climate change more than residents of any other western country. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Cash-strapped UK to sell its forests to stop climate change

(Jan. 16, 2011) The UK government plans to sell the country’s forests in order to raise money to fight climate change. Continue reading

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