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The Deniers, Part XVIII: Fighting climate ‘fluff’
(April 5, 2007) As a mathematician and physicist, Freeman Dyson is known for the unification of three versions of quantum electrodynamics, for his work on the Orion Project, which proposed space flight using nuclear pulse propulsion, and for developing the TRIGA, a small, inherently safe nuclear reactor used by hospitals and universities worldwide for the production of isotopes. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XVII: Little Ice Age is still with us
(March 30, 2007) The Earth slowly but surely warmed over the course of the 20th century, global temperatures increasing by about half a degree Celsius. The evidence for this global warming comes from ice core data from the Arctic island of Severnaya Zemlya, published just last year. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XVI: Bitten by the IPCC
(March 23, 2007) The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is very particular about the scientists it selects to investigate the health consequences of global warming. Those the likes of Paul Reither needn’t apply. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XVII: Unsettled science
(March 13, 2007) Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been wronged. In The Great Global Warming Swindle, a no-holds-barred documentary that aired last week in the United Kingdom and will soon be coming to TV sets in North America, he was cast as a partisan in the climate-change debate. THat he is not. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XIV: The heat’s in the sun
(March 8, 2007) We live in extraordinarily hot times, says Sami Solanki of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany. In 2004, he led a team of scientists that, for the first time, quantitatively reconstructed the sun’s activity since the last Ice Age, some 11,400 years ago. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XIII: Allegre’s second thoughts
(March 2, 2007) Claude Allegre, one of France’s leading socialists and among her most celebrated scientists, was among the first to sound the alarm about the dangers of global warming. Continue reading
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Let’s examine Hydro heresy
(Feb. 24, 2007) The idea that Manitoba Hydro might sell electricity to Manitobans at something like a market price rather at cost and use the extra money to reposition the provincial economy has long been heresy, seldom spoken or raised publicly outside the editorial pages of this newspaper. The taboo, however, was broken in a significant way on Thursday. Continue reading
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Let’s examine Hydro heresy
(February 24, 2007) The idea that Manitoba Hydro might sell electricity to Manitobans at something like a market price rather at cost and use the extra money to reposition the provincial economy has long been heresy, seldom spoken or raised publicly outside the editorial pages of this newspaper. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XXI: Clouded research
(February 23, 2007) Jasper Kirkby is a superb scientist, but he has been a lousy politician. In 1998, anticipating he’d be leading a path-breaking experiment into the sun’s role in global warming, he made the mistake of stating that the sun and cosmic rays “will probably be able to account for somewhere between a half and the whole of the increase in the Earth’s temperature that we have seen in the last century.” Continue reading
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Blown over
(February 22, 2007) Last month, the Conservative government joined the long line of governments around the world subsidizing the production of wind power. Meanwhile, new information about wind power from Europe raises the spectre of unexpected blackout risks, high costs, unreliable production and even questionable environmental benefits. Continue reading
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