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

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

2. 1.5°C global warming target based on shaky science

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

3. 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 ...

4. Does climate change affect economic growth?

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

5. 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. ...

6. 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 ...

7. Federal 'climate' report uses natural weather events to spark scary headlines

   Appeared in the National Post, April 10, 2019 A recent report, commissioned by Environment and Climate Change Canada (also known as the federal Department of the Environment), sparked a feverish bout of media coverage. Much of it keyed off the headline ...

8. What Doug Ford brings to the national climate policy debate

   Appeared in the National Post, March 28, 2018 Doug Ford’s victory in the Ontario PC leadership race changes the national climate policy picture in a significant way. Not because he opposes carbon taxes—many other federal and provincial politicians do as ...