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Tag Archives: Lawrence Solomon
Lawrence Solomon: Science getting settled
New, convincing evidence indicates global warming is caused by cosmic rays and the sun — not humans. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Tyranny of the north
(August 19, 2011) Venezuela’s dictator, Hugo Chavez, was in the news this week for brashly announcing an expropriation of the mineral rights of the citizens of his country. We don’t seize private property that way in our democracy. We seize it silently and in plain sight, as seen in the province of Alberta, which so deftly passed stealth legislation two years ago that most Albertans are only now discovering the government’s audacious takeover of their property rights. Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Power Industry, Climate Change, Coal, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Tar Sands
Tagged Alberta, carbon dioxide, centralization, Climate Change, CSS, Global Warming, Hugo Chavez, Lawrence Solomon, oil sands, sequestration, tar sands, transmission lines
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Lawrence Solomon: Atwood’s library
(August 5, 2011) Toronto has an extraordinary library system with close to 100 branches. The former is mostly about books; the latter mostly about everything but books. This is true of most Canadian cities, where the great history of building public libraries to bring books to the people is running up against rapidly changing cultures and technologies. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged budget, budget cuts, fix your city, KPMG, Lawrence Solomon, Margaret Atwood, Mayor Ford, municipal financing, NGOs, privatization, retail, Toronto, Toronto Public Library, TPL
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Lawrence Solomon: Fix Your City – KPMG cuts are merely cautious
(July 29, 2011) “Even if city council votes for a fraction of the several hundred millions of dollars in suggested cuts, the cuts suggested by city-hired consultants KPMG could transform the city,” the Toronto Star warned last week in an article about proposed budget cuts under Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged BIA, budget, budget cuts, Business Improvement Area, deregulation, fix your city, KPMG, Lawrence Solomon, Mayor Ford, municipal financing, privatization, retail, Toronto
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Lawrence Solomon: If Europe breaks Palestine, it will have to clean up the mess
(July 27, 2011) There is something the Europeans, who assume a hypothetical, independent Palestine, have overlooked: Without Israeli good will, a Palestinian state couldn’t support itself. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, International
Tagged Europe, European Union, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Palestine, Palestinian State, U.S, UN
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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. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, The Deniers
Tagged academia, Climate Change, climate change deniers, climate change propaganda, climate change skeptics, climate change survey, culture, Global Warming, global warming propaganda, global warming sceptics, global warming survey, Junk Science, Lawrence Solomon, National Academies of Sciences, polls, propaganda, science, surveys
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Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil
(July 5, 2011) Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to vow and fail to wean the United States off its dependency on Middle Eastern oil. Barack Obama will be the last. The United States today has the wherewithal to become independent in energy. Once Obama goes, it will also have the will. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Renewables
Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, Renewable Energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms
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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. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, The Deniers
Tagged Climate Change, environmentalists, Global Warming, Lawrence Solomon, polar bears
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Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics
The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming sceptics. Continue reading
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