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Lawrence Solomon debates Jeff Rubin's new book, Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

Welcome to the first installment of the National Post’s non-fiction book club, Speaking Volumes, an ongoing series that features National Post writers and expert guests. In this edition, we examine Jeff Rubin’s new book, Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller (Random House Canada) on peak oil and the end of globalization.

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Enron’s other secret

(May 30, 2009) In the climate-change debate, the companies on the ‘environmental’ side have the most to gain. First in a series called “Climate Profiteers”. Continue reading

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Global warming? Tell that to the residents of Churchill, Manitoba

Recent meteorological evidence shows that temperatures over the past two months were far below average in parts of Canada. According to blogger Joseph D’Aleo, “parts of central Canada (Churchill, Manitoba) are running 16 degrees F below normal for the month through the 26th (map ends 24th).”

Don’t talk to the residents in Churchill about global warming—every day this month they’ve had to deal with below freezing temperatures. Worse still, in only 6 out of the first 26 days were they blessed with temperatures above freezing.

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Aldyen Donnelly: A Closer Look at California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and What It Means for Canada: Part III

The Major Outstanding LCFS Fault for Canadians: Stand Up For Diesel

Notwithstanding these improvements, we anticipate that the LCFS will be subjected to US court challenge and there is a high probability that the CA LCFS will not be upheld. Canadian negotiators should seriously consider options to use the US courts to establish precedents in the CA LCFS context that should prove useful in the larger climate change treaty negotiations.
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Aldyen Donnelly: A Closer Look at California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and What It Means for Canada: Part II

California’s LCFS Problems:  winners, losers and everything in between

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Aldyen Donnelly: A closer look at California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and what it means for Canada: Part I

What’s behind the delays to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard?
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Climate conference heats up

The atmosphere at the recent World Business Summit climate conference in Copenhagen, was, indeed, quite hot. According to a story in the local paper, Politiken, the city’s sex trade business was booming throughout the conference.

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Global warming debate heats up

The debate surrounding global warming is, truly, heating up. Former Colorado State Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke has responded to Stanford University professor Stephen Schneider’s recent claim that he could he could "slaughter" skeptical scientists in a global warming debate.
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Dennis Miller interviews Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon

(May 22, 2009) Dennis Miller recently interviewed Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon about his book, “The Deniers”. Continue reading

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Dennis Miller – Inverview with Lawrence Solomon

(May 21, 2009) Lawrence Solomon, an anti-nuclear environmentalist, has written an important new book which explains how politics has had deviously mixed with science to drastically distort what “facts” are getting out to the public. Dennis Miller interviews him in what turns out to be a very interesting discussion. Continue reading

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