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Category Archives: Climate Change
Wikipedia’s Zealots
(April 13, 2008) As I’m writing this column for the Post, I am simultaneously editing a page on Wikipedia. I am confident that just about everything I write for my column will be available for you to read. I am equally confident that you will be able to read just about nothing that I write for the page on Wikipedia. Continue reading
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Europe’s Banana Republic
(April 11, 2008) Iceland wants to be the world’s first carbon neutral nation, an honour that will be bestowed on it by the United Nations’ Environment Program if it bests rivals Costa Rica, New Zealand and Norway. If Iceland wins, credit will rest in part with the country’s banana industry, the most vibrant in Europe. Continue reading
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Why I wrote Deniers
(April 5, 2008) Global warming has become a question for citizens, and not only scientists. Citizens must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it, which cures make sense, and which might be worse than the disease. Continue reading
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Courting blackouts
(April 3, 2008) The Ontario government’s plan for the electric power sector could lead to blackouts in the next decade if coal power — needed to meet peak power needs — is replaced by unproven conservation programs and renewable energy technologies that cannot be dispatched. Why is the government risking the economy and the welfare of Ontarians? Continue reading
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Ontario’s Energy Crunch
(April 2, 2008) Good morning. I have some good news for you this morning. The good news is that Ontario has an easy and painless way out of the energy fix that we’re in. I have some bad news for you, too. Our government doesn’t know it, and, I am certain, neither do most of you in this room. Continue reading
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The Deniers – the book – Global Warming Debunked
(April 1, 2008) Based on his successful series in the National Post, Lawrence Solomon has now published a new book named The Deniers. It’s available from Amazon.com. Continue reading
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The Deniers: Now read the book
(March 31, 2008) The book version of The Deniers, Lawrence Solomon’s smash FP Comment series on scientists who question global warming science, is now available at amazon Web sites. The full title: “The Deniers: The world-renouned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud**and those who are too fearful to do so.” Continue reading
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Taking the temperature on climate change
(March 25, 2008) Public support for global warming, by some measures, is overwhelming. By other measures, public support more resembles lip-service. As, for example, when the public is asked to put its money where it’s mouth is. Continue reading
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Kyoto’s latest victim
(March 20, 2008) Climate change continues to wreak havoc throughout the world, Egypt being the most recent example. In the last year, bread prices have climbed 36%, leading to rioting by the hungry. Bread riots are also occuring in Yemen and Pakistan, as they have in other countries over the last year, while in other nations food protests have taken other forms. Continue reading
The Polluter Overpay Principle
(March 12, 2008) The UK is clobbering well-engineered automobiles in a move to re-engineer society. A Land Rover will soon face a tax of £950 when purchased, and then an additional £455 per year. Saab owners are hit less hard (£425 in year one, then £270) and Audi owners even less (£155 and £155). Continue reading
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