Category Archives: Climate Change

The high risks of climate-change policy

(October 23, 2009) I’m here to tell you that there are no such likelihoods. That there is no consensus on climate change. That the science that the doomsayers describe cannot credibly be seen as having the weight of scientific opinion behind it. Continue reading →

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The Free Luncher, Exelon: Sources

Exelon CEO Says Climate Change Legislation Remains Urgent Issue, Pushes for Price on Carbon

Outline for John Rowe’s Keynote Speech at American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy

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The high risks of climate-change policy

(October 23, 2009) Earlier this week, I addressed a meeting of the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for National Security in Winnipeg. An abbreviated version of my presentation appears below. Continue reading →

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Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming

(October 22, 2009) Survery Also Shows Modest Support for “Cap and Trade” Policy Continue reading →

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Aldyen Donnelly: How to make economies based on renewable energy work

The data appearing under "key findings" heading for the RWI study, “Economic impacts from the promotion of renewable energies: The German Experience,” study look generally correct to me, but I do not completely agree with the study’s conclusions.  After looking at Germany, the authors have pretty much written off renewable energy mandates altogether. 

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The Case for Doing Nothing on Global Warming

(October 21, 2009) A Presentation to the Centre for National Security of the Conference Board of Canada Winnipeg, Oct. 21 and Oct. 22, 2009. Continue reading →

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Aldyen Donnelly: Canadian exports will suffer at the hands of US cap and trade bills

I am not sure where Janet Peace, Vice President of Markets and Business Strategy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, gets her estimate that only 10% to 20% of Canadian exports are vulnerable to US trans-border charges under US climate change legislation.
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The free luncher: Exelon

(Oct. 17, 2009) Fourteen principled companies abandoned the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week in protest over climate change. Let’s investigate their principles. Continue reading →

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The free luncher: Exelon

(October 17, 2009) Fourteen principled companies abandoned the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week in protest over climate change. Let’s investigate their principles. Continue reading →

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Climate change dominoes fall

(Oct. 16, 2009) Australians are the latest citizenry to turn against climate change catastrophism. For the first time, according to a Lowy poll released this week, a majority of the population turned thumbs down to the proposition that “global warming is a serious and pressing problem. Continue reading →

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