Lawrence Solomon: Exodus from the Arab Spring

(October 14, 2011) The downfall of Hosni Mubarak has set loose a wave of Islamist persecution. Egypt’s Coptic Christians are fleeing in droves – many to Canada.

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Lawrence Solomon: Harper’s next stand

(October 7, 2011) The PM spoke out for the seal hunt. Now he must support the Alberta oil sands.

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Ontario’s Power Trip: The $4000 electricity bill

(October 5, 2011) Energy Probe directors Glenn Fox and Parker Gallant, writing in the Financial Post, discuss their new study of Ontario’s renewable energy policy. Their projection? Electricity rates will double, making them among the highest in the developed world.

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Planet has been much warmer

(October 1, 2011) Alan Nicholl, writing in the Gisborne Herald, discusses myths about the greenhouse effect and the scientific ‘consensus’ around the 2007 IPCC report. Climate researcher James Renwick responds.

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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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