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1. Off Target: The Economics Literature Does Not Support the 1.5°C Climate Ceiling

   Many advocates of government intervention to curb greenhouse-gas emissions have called for a temperature ceiling on global warming. The consensus was originally 2 degrees Celsius, but advocates of more aggressive action succeeded in shifting the goal to 1 ...

2. Trends in Canadian Forest Fires, 1959–2019

   In recent years, media coverage and academic discussions of extreme fire activity have fostered the belief among some Canadians that the country is suffering from a rising trend of destruction from forest fires. During the period of reliable data from ...

3. Apples to Apples: Making Valid Cost-Benefit Comparisons in Climate Policy

   Climate change represents a major policy challenge and the measures being considered or enacted in Canada and around the world are potentially very costly. A basic principle in public policy analysis is that the benefits of a proposed action should exceed ...

4. Federal Reforms and the Empty Shell of Environmental Assessment

   In February 2018, Catherine McKenna, the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, introduced Bill C-69, the Trudeau government’s proposal for reform to federal environmental assessment law. Bill C-69 will, among other things, replace the ...

5. Canadian Student Review: Fall 2016

     In this issue: ‘Consensus’ on Climate Change Stifles Debate Surrounding Public Policy by Kyle Sholes A critique of the misuse of consensus-based rhetoric in public policy debates. The Quote Wall Greg Ip Ip on danger and risk-taking in today’s society. ...

6. Climate Policy Implications of the Hiatus in Global Warming

   The fact that CO2 emissions lead to changes in the atmospheric carbon concentration is not controversial. Nor is the fact that CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) absorb infrared energy in the atmosphere and contribute to the overall greenhouse effect. ...

7. Critical Topics in Global Warming

   The issue of global warming is the subject of two parallel debates: one scientific, focused on the analysis of complex and conflicting data; the other political, addressing what is the proper response of government to a hypothetical risk. https://www ...

8. Understanding Climate Change

   Global warming, climate change, and greenhouse gas emissions have received extensive media coverage in the past few years. Governments and the public are grappling with calls to do something. Some world leaders and prominent writers even say the future of ...

9. Adaptive Management of Climate Change Risks

   Under most scenarios of the future world, including those developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Special Report on Emission Scenarios(SRES), the world should be getting more populated. https://www.fraserinstitute.org ...

10. Independent Summary for Policymakers

    The Independent for Policymakers is a detailed and thorough overview of the state of climate change science as laid out in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) draft report. This independent summary has been reviewed by more ...