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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 ...
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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. ...
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Crude Oil Politics
Appeared in the American Magazine The Obama administration has been punting a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline for five years now, and theres no sign the presidents kicking leg is getting tired. At various junctures in this endless drama, the White ...
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Jaccard Jaccuse
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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Understanding Climate Change
Global warming, climate change, and greenhouse gas emissions have received extensive media coverage in the past few years. Governments and the public are grappling with calls to do something. Some world leaders and prominent writers even say the future of ...
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Adaptive Management of Climate Change Risks
Under most scenarios of the future world, including those developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Special Report on Emission Scenarios(SRES), the world should be getting more populated. https://www.fraserinstitute.org ...
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Independent Summary for Policymakers
The Independent for Policymakers is a detailed and thorough overview of the state of climate change science as laid out in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) draft report. This independent summary has been reviewed by more ...
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The Duh After Tomorrow?
On May 28th, a new Hollywood blockbuster is poised to unleash a perfect storm of propagandistic gyrations. Like The China Syndrome and Waterworld, The Day After Tomorrow is an apocalyptic tale of environmental self-destruction. This time though, its ...