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The Deniers, Part XXVI: NASA chief silenced
(June 8, 2007) The head of NASA – the National Aeronautical and Space Association is – “an idiot” and “in denial” He is also “surprisingly naive” and “a fool.” With his judgement and competence so lacking, demands abound for his resignation as head of the largest and most accomplished science agency in the world. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XXV: They call this a consensus?
(June 2, 2007) Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XXIV: Dire forecasts aren’t new
(May 26, 2007) Germany’s Hans von Storch, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, believes that climate change is for real and that humans are responsible. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XXIII: Discounting logic
(May 18, 2007) If you’re the type of person who sets aside money today for the university education of your great-great-great grandchildren, even if it means that you may not be able to afford university tuition for your own children, you may think it sensible for society to invest now in major measures to stop global warming. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XXII: Some restraint in Rome
(May 11, 2007) President George Bush meets Pope Benedict in June. Some Vatican authorities are lobbying the Pope to press the U.S. administration to act on global warming. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XXI: The ice-core man
(May 4, 2007) Once upon a time, and for millennia before then, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were low and stable. Then came the industrial revolution and CO2 levels began to rise. The more man industrialized, the more that CO2 – and the temperature – rose. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XX: Gore’s guru disagreed
(April 28, 2007) In the history of the global-warming movement, no scientist is more revered than Roger Revelle of Scripps Institution of Oceanorgraphy, Harvard University and University of California San Diego. Continue reading
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Manufactured power crisis
(April 19, 2007) The Ontario government had several objectives in entering into a sole-source contract with Bruce Power to buy electricity from Bruce’s nuclear expansion. One of them, detailed in the Auditor-General’s report, was to conceal the consumer impacts. Mr. Hawthorne’s letter (refer below) aids the government in achieving this objective. Continue reading
The Deniers, Part XIX: Science, not politics
(April 13, 2007) Of all the scientists who are labelled “deniers” because they don’t support the orthodoxy of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, none comes in for more vilification than Eigil Friis-Christensen. For understandable reasons. Continue reading
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Nuclear disaster
(April 10, 2007) Thanks to the report by Ontario Auditor General James McCarter, issued on the afternoon before the long weekend by the Ontario government, Ontario’s electricity ratepayers are much closer to understanding what electricity from the Bruce A nuclear refurbishment will cost. The bottom line: The McGunity government signed a disastrous deal in deciding to resurrect nuclear plants that had no cost justification. Continue reading
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