Tag Archives: Lawrence Solomon

Lawrence Solomon: Canada’s bad radiation cancer data

Radiation exposure may have been underreported in the 1950s and ’60s, making it appear more deadly. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Democratic jackpot

The game-changer is “unconventional fossil fuels,” much of it trapped in shale — rock that often contains oil or gas. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Divide Libya into its tribal parts

(October 28, 2011) Who should get Libya’s fabulous oil and gas wealth, an amount that could be equivalent to several million dollars per Libyan? Continue reading

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Planet has been much warmer

The concept of human-caused climate change through increased atmospheric CO 2 is based on nothing more than an assumption. There is no scientific evidence which supports the concept that increasing CO 2 causes an increase in temperature. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: New battle over Mediterranean gas

The Middle East has moved north, with the Mediterranean emerging as home to some of the world’s richest deposits of energy. And as in the Middle East, rights to resources will be settled less by law than by force, or by the threat of force. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Tinkering with climate

Global warming and global cooling arguments have this in common — the scientific quest to dominate nature. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Warmed right over

The global-warming theory is nearing its end as evidence against it mounts. Continue reading

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Academics: Aliens may threaten to destroy Earth

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. Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: It’s in our interest to break Syria into pieces

If Assad is given the boot, the West should take charge and break it up. Continue reading

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