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1. IPCC relies on foregone conclusions to push preferred ‘climate’ narrative

   Critical voices in climate research often struggle to be heard. ...

2. Advocates for 1.5°C warming target ignore climate science

   On its first day in office, the Biden administration cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline. ...

3. 1.5°C global warming target based on shaky science

   The Trudeau government wants to ban gasoline-powered cars by 2035. ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Climate activists discard the ‘science’ for the extreme ‘unknown’

   Appeared in National Newswatch, November 8, 2019 Now that the election’s over, the Trudeau government (perhaps now in closer concert with parties across the aisle) will continue its climate policy program. It’s therefore worth noting the recent tragic ...

7. Carbon taxes—a stunning bite looms

   The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a new “special report,” which of course supports the contention that warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius is rapidly approaching (IPCC estimates that tipping ...

8. The IPCC warns of dire consequences (again)

   Once again, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a report which asserts that if the Earth’s climate warms beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, well, the consequences will be dire. And at two degrees the impacts will ...

9. A new climate horror story rears its head

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, August 9, 2017 Just in time for summer, when every heatwave and forest fire will be sold as evidence of a “climate crisis” and Mayor Gregor Robertson is panicked about “extreme weather events,” we have a new panic ...

10. Canada and the U.S. now stand on opposite sides of climate policy

    As I predicted a few days ago, President Trump yesterday kept another campaign promise, and withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement. Details are pending, of course, and the president threw out a combination fig leaf ...