climate change

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The government’s push for electric cars is an example of a policy that reduces emissions only minimally and at an unnecessarily high cost.

3:00AM
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The United Nation’s favoured approach would require massive wealth transfers and be wildly unpopular.


4:57PM
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Ontario’s aggressive green-energy/green-tech approach led to soaring power prices for Ontarians.


10:51AM
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The new tax scheme will cost a family of four about $338 extra in 2017.


11:30AM
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Plan includes $285 million in subsidies to encourage people to buy electric cars.

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Since taking office, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has been very aggressive on the climate file. Attempting to remedy what she portrayed as a history of environmental negligence by her predecessors , the premier swiftly increased and expanded Alberta’s carbon tax, placed a hard cap on carbon dioxide emissions, set stiff targets for reducing methane emissions, declared an accelerated phase-out of coal power generation, and promised to replace much of that power with costlier wind or solar power generation.


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New climate tests are unnecessary since the effects of pipelines and LNG terminals on climate change are negligible at worst and positive at best.


3:22PM
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While the planned reduction in emissions may sound impressive, the effect on temperatures will likely be rather small and the costs in dollars quite high.


8:30AM
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Before making largely shambolic gestures using other people’s money, you should consider all the available alternatives.