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1. 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 ...

2. Premier Notley should stop pandering for ‘social license’ and practise energy pragmatism

   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 ...

3. A tax grab cloaked in green

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun and Ottawa Sun With Alberta’s economy sinking rapidly, the new Alberta government has decided to throw the province a few new anchors. First, Premier Rachel Notley announced her plan to follow through ...

4. Alberta needs to heed the lessons of Ontario

   Appeared in the Financial Post Since taking office in mid-September, Alberta’s new Premier Jim Prentice has talked an active game on the energy file. From the perspective of those who believe that Canada’s energy exports are vital to the country’s ...

5. 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. ...

6. Jaccard J’accuse

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Guelph Mercury, Kelowna Daily Courier and Vernon Daily Courier Back in April of 2013, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair went down to Washington to rubbish Canada's environmental reputation before its greatest trading partner. ...

7. Not-so-dedicated funds

   Appeared in the Orange County Register When pitching new programs, politicians love their 'dedicated' funds: highway trust funds, housing trust funds, environmental protection funds, wildlife-protection funds, and so on. Most recently, under AB ...

8. 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 ...

9. Canada's Kyoto Concerns Go South

   Appeared in the New London Day (Connecticut), November 8, 2002 and The Providence Journal While the United States has been focused on the mid-term elections and Iraq for the past several months, Canadians have been focused intently on the question of ...

10. Global Warming: A Guide to the Science

    A review of the scientifi c literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the most prominent greenhouse gas contributed by human activities, leads to the conclusion that increases during the ...