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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. 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. Heatwave sparks calls for emissions restrictions while media ignores the costs

   Canada was responsible for only 1.5 per cent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. ...

6. Does climate change affect economic growth?

   There was some evidence that warming up to 13.4 degrees Celsius is good for economic growth. ...

7. Climate ‘disclosure’—don’t take extreme slogans at face value

   Start with official sources, check the data, read the expert literature and test the models. ...

8. 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 ...

9. Climate policy—results more important than rhetoric

   Appeared in National Newswatch, August 16, 2019 I work on environmental and energy economics in both Canada and the United States. I’ve noticed that U.S. debates tend to focus on abstract principles— “capitalism versus socialism,” for example—whereas ...

10. 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 ...