Category Archives: Climate Change

Aldyen Donnelly: Projected carbon prices: are they full of hot air?

The carbon prices outlined in this news article are consistent with the idea that high-emitting power generation and industrial facility operators will pay whatever it costs to operate existing plants through the end of their normal, pre-carbon tax, expected lives. If we assume no early plant retirements, the marginal cost of complying with the WCI 2020 target ranges between $30 and $80/TCO2e.  
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Climategate scientists: We’re not guilty

(Apr. 16, 2010) Climate-change partisans find mere sins of omission.

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Climategate scientists: We’re not guilty

Climate-change partisans find mere sins of omission.

To allay public concern over Climategate — the unauthorized release of some 3000 documents from the computers of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University — the university established two independent inquiries to attend to the widespread view that science had been corrupted through the distortion and destruction of data, through cover-ups, and through the perversion of the peer review process.
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Aldyen Donnelly: Swedish-style carbon taxes not the way to go

(April 15, 2010) Matt Horne of the Pembina Institute suggests that “careful design” will address the many real issues associated with the carbon tax about which Harvey Enchin deftly wrote a week earlier on the OpEd page of the Vancouver … Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: The non-inquiry of climategate

(April 15, 2010) To allay public concern over Climategate – the unauthorized release of some 3000 documents from the computers of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University – the university established two independent inquiries to attend to the widespread view that science had been corrupted through the distortion and destruction of data, through cover-ups, and through the perversion of the peer review process. Continue reading

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THE DISCLOSURE OF CLIMATE DATA FROM THE CLIMATIC RESEARCH UNIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

House of COMMONS
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
TAKEN BEFORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SUB-COMMITTEE
THE DISCLOSURE OF CLIMATE DATA FROM THE CLIMATIC RESEARCH UNIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
Monday 1 March 2010
LORD LAWSON OF BLABY and DR BENNY PEISER
RICHARD THOMAS
PROFESSOR EDWARD ACTON and PROFESSOR PHIL JONES
SIR MUIR RUSSELL KCB

PROFESSOR JOHN BEDDINGTON, PROFESSOR JULIA SLINGO OBE

and PROFESSOR BOB WATSON
Evidence heard in Public Questions 1 – 229
USE OF THE TRANSCRIPT
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The new climate game

(Apr. 10, 2010) Right from the early days of the global warming controversy, they whacked any scientist who dissented from the view that CO2 was warming the planet in a dangerous way. Up popped other skeptical scientists, and WHACK!! Down … Continue reading

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The new climate game

(April 10, 2010) Right from the early days of global warming controversy, they whacked any scientist who dissented from the view that CO2 was warming the planet in a dangerous way. Up popped other skeptical scientists, and WHACK!! Down they went. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: New CAFE standards are a potential cash cow for the US Treasury

US regulators appear to be planning/budgeting for a high level of non-compliance with the proposed new CAFE standard. This planned non-compliance will generate significant new tax revenues for the US Treasury. Canadian manufacturers will take a hit, as they’ll account for more than 15% of the new US Treasury revenues from fines.

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Lawrence Solomon: France to hold official debate on climate change

(April 5, 2010) At the suggestion of France’s science minister, Valérie Pécresse, France’s National Academy of Sciences will hold an official debate on climate change to try to defuse this newly explosive issue. Continue reading

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