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IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas

(Feb. 7, 2010) Climategate is one of many known failings by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading

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IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas

(Feb. 7, 2010) Climategate is one of many known failings by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas

(February 7, 2010) Climategate is one of many known failing by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading

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Campus climate orthodoxy

(Feb. 4, 2010) Editor’s note: Lawrence Solomon’s column, Keeping Canadian Students In The Dark On Climate, provoked some interesting responses on our online blog, FP Comment, and the National Post’s editorial blog, Full Comment. Some have been reproduced below. Continue reading

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Campus climate orthodoxy

(February 4, 2010) Editor’s note: Lawrence Solomon’s column, Keeping Canadian Students in The Dark On Climate, provoked some interesting responses on our online blog. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: Cap and trade: A history

In my opinion, the science on climate change is now irrelevant—even though I’m a believer.

Every time the US has implemented a cap and trade regulation—the first one was in1977—its primary political objective was trade protectionism. And every time the US has done so, the measure has successfully drawn investment capital away from nations on which Americans have traditionally relied for imports into the US.

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Aldyen Donnelly: The oil sands should be shut down, right?

No. This is a gasoline versus diesel fuel story.

Note that 100% of the transportation sector GHGs realized in Europe between 1990 and 2007 derive from the shift of the passenger vehicle fleet from gasoline (‘petrol") to ultra low sulphur diesel fuel. Alberta’s oil sands are relatively high (but not the highest) GHG generators if they are used to make gasoline.

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Pending N.B. report on power deal with Quebec dismissed sight unseen by Tories

HALIFAX, N.S. — A provincially appointed panel will release its opinion Monday on a controversial deal to sell major NB Power assets to Hydro-Quebec, but New Brunswick’s Opposition leader is already dismissing its work.

Conservative Leader David Alward maintains the six-person panel appointed last November by Premier Shawn Graham to provide independent advice has been "irrelevant from square one."

He also questions the legitimacy of the panel’s report, which will be presented in Fredericton by chair David Ganong and panel member Louis LaPierre. Continue reading

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Pending N.B. report on power deal with Quebec dismissed sight unseen by Tories

(Jan. 31, 2010) HALIFAX, N.S. — A provincially appointed panel will release its opinion Monday on a controversial deal to sell major NB Power assets to Hydro-Quebec, but New Brunswick’s Opposition leader is already dismissing its work. Continue reading

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Keeping Canadian students in the dark on climate

(Jan. 30, 2010) Climate change is natural. Spending time and money on the issue is largely a waste,” posited Steve Paikin, host of TV Ontario’s The Agenda, to his live studio audience at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies Thursday evening. Continue reading

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