Category Archives: Costs, Benefits and Risks

Lawrence Solomon on the failure of global-warming alarmists to rally the public

(March 11, 2013) The Wall Street Journal’s Notable & Quotable section highlights Lawrence Solomon’s column for the Financial Post on global warming and the barometer of public opinion. Continue reading

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Whom to believe on global warming?

(March 12, 2013) David T. Koyzis, a Professor of Political Science at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario looks at the continuing controversy over climate change and the validity of conflicting reports; in this instance, Koyzis compares a recent Financial Post column by Lawrence Solomon with “Where Has All the Ice Gone?”, a blog by Emily E. Adams for the Washington-based environmental think-tank Earth Policy Institute. Continue reading

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Look at the graph to see the evidence of global warming

(March 9, 2013) Is the world truly in the grip of runaway global warming, or is this belief based on a colossal misreading of the scientific evidence? “One reason why it is so vital for us to understand this, of course, has been all those devastating political responses to this fear, which promise to change our way of life out of recognition,” writes the noted U.K. Sunday Telegraph columnist, Christopher Booker, in this piece quoting Lawrence Solomon. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Green power failure

(May 11, 2012) Climate mania impoverishes electricity customers worldwide. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Insured disaster

(November 21, 2011) The insurance industry has been behind the global-warming fraud since the 1970s. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Tinkering with climate

Global warming and global cooling arguments have this in common — the scientific quest to dominate nature. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Our cosmic climate

(September 2, 2011) CERN experiment overturns global-warming orthodoxy The 20-year-long global warming debate is in its final stages, the controversy having been settled over whether manmade causes such as carbon dioxide or natural causes such as the Sun dominate climate … Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Tyranny of the north

(August 19, 2011) Venezuela’s dictator, Hugo Chavez, was in the news this week for brashly announcing an expropriation of the mineral rights of the citizens of his country. We don’t seize private property that way in our democracy. We seize it silently and in plain sight, as seen in the province of Alberta, which so deftly passed stealth legislation two years ago that most Albertans are only now discovering the government’s audacious takeover of their property rights. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Carbon burial scheme goes under

(December 13, 2010) The UK’s first commercial scale CCS facility – a plant at a colliery in Yorkshire that would capture carbon and then pump it for burial in old gas-wells under the North Sea – has itself gone under after failing to raise the £635 million needed to fund its construction. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: How to renege on egregious green contracts

(December 11, 2010) Risk-free contracts pay up to 20 times market value. Continue reading

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