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1. Climate change—to pay, or not to pay?

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, December 4, 2019 With the holidays fast approaching, you may have missed the latest (and final) report from Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, a “group of experienced, policy-minded economists,” which admitted that all those ...

2. Carbon taxes take a beating—north and south

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, November 21, 2018 One hopes that Premier Notley and Prime Minister Trudeau have been watching events south of the border, where carbon taxes and wind/solar power advocates have taken major hits, and it’s clear Canada will go ...

3. The carbon taxman is coming

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 31, 2018 Last Week, Prime Minister Trudeau continued his fight against climate change with his escalating “pan-Canadian” carbon price, which will kick in at $20 per tonne in 2019 and rise by $10 per year to reach $50 ...

4. Carbon taxes—a stunning bite looms

   The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a new “special report,” which of course supports the contention that warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius is rapidly approaching (IPCC estimates that tipping ...

5. The IPCC warns of dire consequences (again)

   Once again, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a report which asserts that if the Earth’s climate warms beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, well, the consequences will be dire. And at two degrees the impacts will ...

6. A new climate horror story rears its head

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, August 9, 2017 Just in time for summer, when every heatwave and forest fire will be sold as evidence of a “climate crisis” and Mayor Gregor Robertson is panicked about “extreme weather events,” we have a new panic ...

7. It’s time for Canada to reassess its climate policy

   The federal government recently unveiled its new national carbon pricing scheme, calling it a “backstop.” Under the backstop plan, provinces are given until 2018 to create their own carbon pricing system or Ottawa will impose its own. ...

8. Canada and the U.S. now stand on opposite sides of climate policy

   As I predicted a few days ago, President Trump yesterday kept another campaign promise, and withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement. Details are pending, of course, and the president threw out a combination fig leaf ...

9. Trump eyes withdrawal from Paris climate agreement

   Rumour has it, President Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, killing another legacy of the Obama administration. It’s still possible that this is a negotiating ploy, and the president is waiting for ...

10. Trump introduces serious headwind to Canada’s competitiveness

    Appeared in National Newswatch, April 5, 2017 To the predictable howls of environmentalists, President Donald Trump has finally turned his pen on Barack Obama’s climate change policies. Signing an Executive Order (EO) titled “Promoting Energy Independence ...