Whom to believe on global warming?

Posted on March 12, 2013 by energyprbe

(March 12, 2013) David T. Koyzis, a Professor of Political Science at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario looks at the continuing controversy over climate change and the validity of conflicting reports; in this instance, Koyzis compares a recent Financial Post column by Lawrence Solomon with “Where Has All the Ice Gone?”, a blog by Emily E. Adams for the Washington-based environmental think-tank Earth Policy Institute.

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Look at the graph to see the evidence of global warming

Posted on March 12, 2013 by energyprbe

(March 9, 2013) Is the world truly in the grip of runaway global warming, or is this belief based on a colossal misreading of the scientific evidence? “One reason why it is so vital for us to understand this, of course, has been all those devastating political responses to this fear, which promise to change our way of life out of recognition,” writes the noted U.K. Sunday Telegraph columnist, Christopher Booker, in this piece quoting Lawrence Solomon.

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Lawrence Solomon: Not easy being green

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Lawrence Solomon

(February 28, 2013) Series of disasters for the climate doomsayers.

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Lawrence Solomon: Argo perpetuates myth of CIA coup

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Other News Sources

(February 25, 2013) Oil was the last thing on the CIA’s mind in 1953 intervention.

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Lawrence Solomon: Fight jihad, stop carbon taxes

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Lawrence Solomon

(February 21, 2013) Shale oil boom means security.

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Lawrence Solomon: Celsius not rising

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Lawrence Solomon

(February 7, 2013) Public opinion won’t change as long as temperatures don’t.

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Lawrence Solomon: Move into the fast lane

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Lawrence Solomon

(December 7, 2012) The U.S. has pioneered dynamic pricing of highway toll lanes.

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The big Ontario power-plant question

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Other News Sources

(Dec. 3, 2012) Will the Liberals ever explain their botched site-selection process?

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Russia deal could make Israel a major energy exporter

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Other News Sources

(November 29, 2012) A joint venture between Russia’s national gas giant Gazprom and Israel to develop its offshore gas fields, could propel Israel to energy superpower status in the Middle East. Lawrence Solomon’s recent presentation to the Middle East Forum forms the basis of the following article.

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New Brunswick nuclear reactor set to return to service

Posted on November 14, 2012 by energyprbe

(November 14, 2012) The longs delays and major cost overruns associated with the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant refurbishment, due for completion this fall, underscore the risks associated with nuclear technology, says Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin. “Because it’s nuclear it is inherently hazardous and everything has to go right … every kind of small boo-boo turns into a megaproject boo-boo,” said Rubin, who also notes that the peculiar nature of some of the refurbishment project’s problems has “turned this thing into a laughing stock … like dropping a turbine into the ocean.”

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