Category Archives: Climate Change

Parker Gallant: Wind turbines and solar panels bring Ontario energy poverty: Chapter 1

Green sustainable energy is working for Ontario making us all more prosperous.” There are a large number of people in Ontario who would disagree with that statement and they are reflected in the increasing number of people living in “energy poverty”. Continue reading

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Ontario’s HOEP should become HOPE and GAM become GAS

(May 29, 2014) Those who pay attention to their electricity bills in Ontario will recognize the acronyms “HOEP” and “GAM” as two key components in the makeup of our electricity bills.

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The slow, sure death of “climate change” lies

(May 23, 2014) Climate change has been happening before and since the rise of civilization. The Earth’s climate is primarily a reflection of solar radiation or the lack of it. Lawrence Solomon is quoted in this article published by Canada Free Press. Continue reading

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Perspective: Consensus not the way to prove truth on climate issues

(April 21, 2014) There is a growing realization that the Green Movement and its focus on carbon dioxide emissions may be not fully justified by the facts. Lawrence Solomon is quoted in this opinion piece by a contributor to the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader. Continue reading

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Wikipedia on Global Warming

(March 12, 2014) In this piece published by American Thinker, Paul Austin Murphy investigates Wikipedia’s biased and one-sided handling of entries regarding ‘anthropogenic global warming theory,’ first exposed by Lawrence Solomon in his series on ‘Wikipropaganda’ — also quoted here by Murphy. Continue reading

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Parker Gallant: Biomass is carbon neutral, and the world is flat!

(March 5, 2014) The largest coal generation plant in the UK is transforming itself by converting half of its coal burning generation units into biomass (wood pellets) by 2016.

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Parker Gallant: Ontario’s Ministry of Energy “Achieving Balance” would be a surprise

(February 18, 2014) As a part of the revised Long-Term Energy Plan (LTEP) announced by Minister of Energy, Bob Chiarelli, on December 2, 2013, his ministry released a myriad of other information perhaps meant to either confuse or dazzle the reader. Continue reading

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Parker Gallant: Environmental Defence, hypocrites or hypochondriacs

(February 11, 2014) Riddle me this! What do the Cement Association of Canada, United Steelworkers, Xerox and Middlefields Resource Funds (investors in oil and gas exploration and development) and Environmental Defence have in common?

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Parker Gallant: Environmental Defence blame others for their CRA problems

(February 9, 2014) The CBC in an news item February 6, 2014, announced that the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) had launched an “audit” of some of Canada’s well known environmental charities and included on that list was Environmental Defence (ED).

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Clouds of conspiracy

(February 5, 2014) Economist Raymond J. Keating finds that media bias is real, based on news coverage of global warming as not “a theory at all” but “demonstrable as gravity,” without permitting there might be “some who disagree with such certainty.” Keating cites Lawrence Solomon as a “unique” exception to global warming bias in the media. Continue reading

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