Author Archives: Other News Sources

Planet has been much warmer

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Other News Sources

The concept of human-caused climate change through increased atmospheric CO 2 is based on nothing more than an assumption. There is no scientific evidence which supports the concept that increasing CO 2 causes an increase in temperature. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, The Deniers | Tagged Climate Change, CO2, Deniers, Energy Probe, environment, ETS, Global Warming, global warming debate, IPCC, Lawrence Solomon | 1 Comment

Joubert on climate change science

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Other News Sources

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 →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News | Tagged Climate Change, Deniers, Global Warming, global warming debate, global warming sceptics | 1 Comment

Lawrence Solomon: It’s in our interest to break Syria into pieces

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Other News Sources

If Assad is given the boot, the West should take charge and break it up. Continue reading →

Posted in Energy Probe News, International | Tagged Assad, Bashar al-Assad, Islam, Kurds, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, Middle East politics, Syria, Syria protests | Leave a comment

Windmills: If you see one of these starting to smoke…RUN!

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Other News Sources

Posted in Renewables | Tagged burning wind turbines, Renewable Energy, renewables, wind, wind power, wind turbine images, wind turbine photos, wind turbines, windmills | Leave a comment

Parker Gallant: Turning OEFC’s “Stranded Debt” into Political Spin

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Other News Sources

(August 22, 2011) Dates appearing on the most recent annual report by the Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation (OEFC) give reason to believe that the report not only has yet to be tabled, but its early release may something to do with the Progressive Conservative’s promise to remove the “Debt Retirement Charge” from electricity bills and the Liberals’ plan to keep the DRC on electricity bills until remaining debts have been resolved. Continue reading →

Posted in Power Generation in Ontario | Tagged debt, Debt Retirement Charge, DRC, feed-in-Tariff, FIT, hydroelectricity, Liberal Party, Liberals, Nuclear Decommissioning Fund, OEFC, Ontario electricity, Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation, Ontario energy, Ontario Hydro, Ontario Legislature, OPG, Parker Gallant, PC Ontario Hydro debt, Progressive Conservative, renewable energy resources, RES, Scott Luft, tax payers, tax policies, Tim Hudak | 2 Comments

Aldyen Donnelly: Reality according to real data

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Other News Sources

(August 8, 2011) A number of Canada’s leading economists are far from objective when it comes to their tax and energy policy prescriptions, and they may sometimes produce opinion pieces that are not well-founded on fact. Continue reading →

Posted in Aldyen Donnelly | Tagged Aldyen Donnelly, Conference Board, Don Cayo, Economics, emissions, energy policies, energy policy prescriptions, environmental tax, GHG, GHG footprint, Japan, Japan Statistics Bureau, Sweden, tax policies, tax prescriptions, Vancourver Sun | Leave a comment

A Summary of Michael Trebilcock’s “Speaking Truth to Wind Power”

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 6, 2011) Michael Trebilcock’s study, “Speaking Truth to Wind Power”, suggests Ontario’s policies regarding renewable energy must be revised to avoid incurring further consequences, such as higher energy costs for energy consumers and taxpayers. Continue reading →

Posted in Power Generation in Ontario, Renewables | Tagged Economic, employment, energy subsidies, Environmental, Michael Trebilcock, Ontario energy, Ontario energy policies, Ontario renewable energy, Renewable Energy, Speaking Truth to Wind Power, wind turbines | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: It’s official – climate alarmists know less and can’t count too well

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 5, 2011) Surprising findings lead researchers to recommend science be taught differently, to enable skeptics to arrive at correct conclusions. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, The Deniers | Tagged academia, Climate Change, climate change deniers, climate change propaganda, climate change skeptics, climate change survey, culture, Global Warming, global warming propaganda, global warming sceptics, global warming survey, Junk Science, Lawrence Solomon, National Academies of Sciences, polls, propaganda, science, surveys | 1 Comment

Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 5, 2011) Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to vow and fail to wean the United States off its dependency on Middle Eastern oil. Barack Obama will be the last. The United States today has the wherewithal to become independent in energy. Once Obama goes, it will also have the will. Continue reading →

Posted in Oil, Shale Oil | Tagged drilling, Eagle Ford, Eagleford, energy, energy independence, environmentalism, foreign oil, Gulf spill, Lawrence Solomon, Obama, offshore drilling, oil imports, oil independence, OPEC, Shale Oil, tight oil, United States, Yergin | Leave a comment

The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading →