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1. Bad government policies create energy crisis

   In Canada, gasoline prices have increased by 33 per cent. ...

2. Ottawa’s climate plan ignores the science

   The prime minister supports a carbon tax that will max out at $170 per tonne in 2030. ...

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

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

4. 1.5°C global warming target based on shaky science

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

5. 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 ...

6. 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. ...

7. Nuclear option makes a lot of green sense

   Wind and solar require backup generation from other sources. ...

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 ...