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Category Archives: Climate Change
The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
(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
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Renewables
Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, Renewable Energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms
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Lawrence Solomon: Polar opposites
(July 1, 2011) A decision by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan becomes a different story through a media lens. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, The Deniers
Tagged Climate Change, environmentalists, Global Warming, Lawrence Solomon, polar bears
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Aldyen Donnelly: A Response to Peter Foster’s “The Demons in Krugmanomics”
(June 29, 2011) The following is a response to Peter Foster’s article published in the Financial Post on June 29, 2011. To read The Demons in Krugmanomics, click here.
Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics
The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming sceptics. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: NASA scientist reverses sunspot prediction, bolstering global cooling theory
(June 17, 2011) Five years ago, NASA’s David Hathaway predicted that the Sun was about to enter an unusually intense period of sunspot activity. Today, Hathaway believes his earlier prediction was wrong. This comes amid a flurry of other reports, including from scientists at the U.S. National Solar Observatory (NSO) and U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, indicating that global cooling, and perhaps even a new Little Ice Age, is on its way. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Global Cooling
Tagged Climate Change, David Hathaway, global cooling, Ice Age, Solar Cycle, Sunspots activity
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Aldyen Donnelly: BCAA’s conclusions about hybrid vehicles
(June 14, 2011) After one spends a little time calculating paybacks for different vehicle purchase options under different energy and vehicle price, tax, emission rating and purchase incentive scenarios, it becomes obvious that any tax measures intended to change consumer energy use should focus on car purchase and annual re-registration, not fuel purchases. Continue reading
Posted in Aldyen Donnelly, Climate Change, Renewables
Tagged Aldyen Donnelly, CO2 emissions, green house gas emissions, hybrids
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Oilsands greenhouse gas emissions up in 2009
(June 6, 2011) New calculation; Substantial rise in pollution: report… Aldyen Donnelly responds. Continue reading
Aldyen Donnelly: Why California will not be imitating Ontario’s Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program
(June 6, 2011) From Glen Murray’s twitter: P Gipe from California FIT programs in Ontario best in World, others are imitating it… Aldyen Donnelly responds. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Strong evidence that the Sun controls climate
(June 2, 2011) But how is this possible? Some experts say, “balderdash”; a new study shows otherwise. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Global Cooling
Tagged Climate Change, cooling, Deniers, environment, global warming debate, Lawrence Solomon, temperature change, the sun
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Lawrence Solomon: Better red than dead, better green than free
(May 30, 2011) During the Cold War between the Free World and the Communist USSR, many in the Free World argued it was better to be red than dead after nuclear Armageddon. Today, fearing the planet’s annihilation from another source – global warming — scientists in elite government circles in Germany are saying we’re better off green than free. Continue reading
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