A Summary of Michael Trebilcock’s “Speaking Truth to Wind Power”

(July 6, 2011) The Ontario government’s hurried decision to subsidize renewable energy sources – specifically wind turbines – has created losses for energy consumers and tax payers, according to a study by Michael Trebilcock, a Law and Economics Professor at the University of Toronto. 

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Lawrence Solomon: It’s official – climate alarmists know less and can’t count too well

(July 5, 2011) Surprising findings lead researchers to recommend science be taught differently, to enable skeptics to arrive at correct conclusions.

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Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil

(July 5, 2011) The United States can have energy security whenever it wants it.

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The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”

(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost.

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Lawrence Solomon: Polar opposites

(July 1, 2011) A decision by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan becomes a different story through a media lens.

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Aldyen Donnelly: A Response to Peter Foster’s “The Demons in Krugmanomics”

(June 29, 2011) The following is a response to Peter Foster’s article published in the Financial Post on June 29, 2011. To read The Demons in Krugmanomics, click here.

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Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics

(June 24, 2011) The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming skeptics.

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Israeli Oil: Black Gold in the Holy Land

(June 18, 2011) On Tuesday, June 14, Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. announced it had requested a petroleum exploration permit to develop large shale oil deposits in the Shfela Basin, 30 miles west of Jerusalem.

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Lawrence Solomon: NASA scientist reverses sunspot prediction, bolstering global cooling theory

(June 17, 2011) Five years ago, NASA’s David Hathaway predicted that the Sun was about to enter an unusually intense period of sunspot activity. Today, Hathaway believes his earlier prediction was wrong. This comes amid a flurry of other reports, including from scientists at the U.S. National Solar Observatory (NSO) and U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, indicating that global cooling, and perhaps even a new Little Ice Age, is on its way.

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The Rubber Duckies: Scaring cell users

(June 17, 2011) The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) wins an Honourable Mention in this year’s Rubber Duckies Award. 

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