Category Archives: Climate Change

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: Warmed right over

The global-warming theory is nearing its end as evidence against it mounts. Continue reading

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Academics: Aliens may threaten to destroy Earth

Columnist Robin Beres asks, if aliens were coming to judge us for fossil fuel use, wouldn’t they have passed sentence several hundred years ago for, say, coal. Continue reading

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Harvey M. Sheldon: Candidates Disappoint on Science and Climate

(September 9, 2011) In this post by the American Thinker website, Harvey M. Sheldon shares his opinion on the concerns over man-made global warming. 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: Science getting settled

New, convincing evidence indicates global warming is caused by cosmic rays and the sun — not humans. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: California stars and Canadian environmentalist protest Alberta heavy oil

(August 24, 2011) Californian stars and Canadian environmentalists protest Alberta heavy oil while making no effort to stop the California regulators from going out of their way to over-allocate excess free GHG quota to subsidize more GHG-intensive California heavy oil. 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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Aldyen Donnelly: Reality according to real data

(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

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

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

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