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1. Conservative climate plan wildly oversimplifies and overreaches

   If you think we need to reduce CO2 emissions, use a single targeted policy to reduce CO2 emissions. ...

2. If carbon taxes work, why all the new regulations?

   Appeared in the National Post, October 7, 2020 Many economists were excited a few years ago when the federal Liberals committed to introducing a carbon tax. Whether they were specialists in environmental economics or not, they knew from their introductory ...

3. You can believe in climate science without supporting every proposed climate policy

   Appeared in the National Post, March 4, 2020 There’s an assumption out there that if you “accept” the science of climate change you are obliged to support drastic measures to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is not true. One does not follow from ...

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. Canada’s carbon sticker shock shouldn’t shock anyone

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, April 8, 2017 According to a recently revealed document, Environment Canada told Liberal government officials in 2015 that Canada would need a carbon tax of $200 to $300 per tonne of greenhouse gases emitted by 2050 to meet ...

6. 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. ...