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1. Ottawa and Washington peddling climate change alarmism

   The federal government wants to conscript private capital to help fuel its climate agenda. ...

2. Trudeau government spends billions on unnecessary ‘climate’ war

   This $206 million is only part of Ottawa’s vast climate spending portfolio. ...

3. Dubious Paris climate goals mean major economic pain for Canadians

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, July 22, 2020 According to a new study from the Canadian Energy Centre (CEC), to achieve our Paris Agreement climate commitments, Canada will need a huge carbon tax hike, costing $54 billion in lost annual output by 2030, with ...

4. Time to fight the climate extremists who seek to burn things down

   Appeared in the Sudbury Star, February 10, 2020 Last year—2019—was the year the climate issue took a sharp turn towards extremism. Let’s hope 2020 is the year sanity makes a comeback. There have long been three groups occupying the climate issue. To avoid ...

5. Consumers—not voters—will ultimately drive climate policy

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, January 15, 2020 Last week, the Calgary-based oilsands producer Cenovus Energy announced plans to help fight climate change by reducing per-barrel greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2030, and reaching net-zero ...

6. Case for aggressive ‘climate’ policies much weaker than we’ve been led to believe

   Some computer models predict catastrophic results, other projections are much more benign. ...

7. Trump introduces serious headwind to Canada’s competitiveness

   Appeared in National Newswatch, April 5, 2017 To the predictable howls of environmentalists, President Donald Trump has finally turned his pen on Barack Obama’s climate change policies. Signing an Executive Order (EO) titled “Promoting Energy Independence ...

8. Obama’s joint announcement with China on GHG emissions an early Christmas present for environmental activists

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Environmentalists received an early Christmas present on November 12, when President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping issued a “joint announcement” over the control of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the ...

9. Climate Change: It’s Not the Science, It’s the Policy

   Appeared in VancouverSun.com The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest “Synthesis Report” drawing together the findings of the most recent three-volume set of the Fifth Assessment Report. The Assessment Report is ...

10. 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. ...