Lawrence Solomon: New battle over Mediterranean gas

(September 30, 2011) Greece, Israel and Cyprus clash with Turkey over resource rights in the Mediterranean.

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Joubert on climate change science

(September 29, 2011) An article in The Gauntlet – the University of Calgary student newspaper – questions climate extremism and introduces some respected scientists who reject global warming.

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Lawrence Solomon: Tinkering with climate

(September 23, 2011) Global warming and global cooling arguments have this in common — the scientific quest to dominate nature.

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Lawrence Solomon: Warmed right over

(September 16, 2011) The global-warming theory is nearing its end as evidence against it mounts.

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Academics: Aliens may threaten to destroy Earth

(September 18, 2011) A growing body of opinion (including Energy Probe) points to the sun as the driving force behind climate change. But one recent academic paper gives the climate change debate quite a different spin: it claims the Earth’s increasing carbon output could alert extraterrestrial intelligence to our presence, for better or worse. Columnist Robin Beres asks, if aliens were coming to judge us for fossil fuel use, wouldn’t they have passed sentence several hundred years ago for, say, coal.

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Parker Gallant: The forgotten directive

(September 12, 2011) Ontario’s Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) programs, designed to make Ontario a world leader in renewable energy, was implemented through two dozen or so government directives that gave well-heeled investors guaranteed sky-high returns on their investments. Most Ontarians, however, suffered in the gold rush that followed: not only did they lack the bankroll to invest; they had to indirectly finance the investors – many of them foreigners through surcharges on their power bills.

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Lawrence Solomon: Just a (nuclear) waste

(September 9, 2011) Canada’s nuclear industry is again plying the back routes of Ontario’s northlands, looking for a willing host in places like Hornepayne (population 1209) and Ear Falls (population 1153) for a multi-billion-dollar long-term storage facility for the country’s nuclear wastes.

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Dirty Business: The reality of Ontario’s rush to wind power

(September 9, 2011) Dirty Business, a new book that focuses on wind power’s impacts on Ontario’s power systems and rural communities, features three Energy Probe directors (retired banker Parker Gallant, economist Michael Trebilcock and Globe columnist Margaret Wente), and a past executive director (Tom Adams).

Other works include those by Ross McKitrick and Rick Conroy.

Dirty Business, to be released Monday, September 12, is published by Wind Concerns Ontario Inc. Publications. Click here to learn more about the book and how to order a copy.

 

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Harvey M. Sheldon: Candidates Disappoint on Science and Climate

(September 9, 2011) American Thinker – The Republican candidates failed to explain clearly to the American people why the Democrats’ stated concerns over climate change are wrong.  Asked essentially to name a scientist who does not believe in man-made global warming, Rick Perry dissolved into almost a-mumble that the “theory” of man made climate change is unproven.  While that is fine, its only his assertion, not evidence, and it is not a direct answer to the question posed.  Jon Huntsman proved himself a gullible nitwit by adopting the so-called consensus.

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Lawrence Solomon: Our cosmic climate

(September 2, 2011) CERN experiment overturns global-warming orthodoxy

The 20-year-long global warming debate is in its final stages, the controversy having been settled over whether manmade causes such as carbon dioxide or natural causes such as the Sun dominate climate change on Earth.

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