Category Archives: Climate Change

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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Lawrence Solomon: Climategate gang is writing the script for Copenhagen

(December 7, 2010) The Copenhagen Diagnosis, a year-long study to be unveiled at the Copenhagen climate change meetings that begin today, was designed to dramatize how little time we have left to save the planet from catastrophic climate. Continue reading

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Will biomass and/or natural gas save OPG Nanticoke

(December 06, 2010) As we continue down a path of shunning power at four cents per kWh for power at 80 cents plus, columnist Toby Barrett recommends heeding a warning by Energy Probe’s Executive Director Lawrence Solomon that, “the grave government is digging this time is big enough to bury the province as well as the power sector”. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: The $7-billion carbon scam

(December 05, 2010) Loopholes in the EU’s carbon credit trading scheme bring $7-billion in profits to scam artists. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Hockey stick coverup, a sequel

(Dec. 03, 2010) Another scandal surrounding the infamous hockey stick graph comes to light. Continue reading

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Ontario’s Green Energy Act: Explained in animation

(December 01, 2010) Energy Probe is mentioned in this comedic look at the Ontario Green Energy Act. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: Why the income-to-consumption tax shift is a potential economic death spiral

(Nov. 30, 2010) Aldyen Donnelly looks at the major drawbacks to implementing consumption taxes, rather than income taxes. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Europe’s press (and Canada’s) turns against global warming

(Nov. 28, 2010) More media outlets express their global warming scepticism. Continue reading

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Tuvalu – the touchstone of global warming and rising sea level

(Nov. 26, 2010) “…Tuvalu has become “hot news” as the favourite island to be doomed by sea level rise driven by global warming, allegedly caused in turn by anthropogenic carbon dioxide.” Continue reading

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Queen’s hosts groundbreaking debate on climate change

Convocation Hall was at standing-room-only capacity on November 8, 2010, as students, professors and Kingston residents packed in tight for “The Great Climate Debate.” Continue reading

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