Environment

— Sep 13, 2022
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The Hand of Government in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Hand of Government in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a new essay that documents how the IPCC was created by and is controlled by governments of countries that perceive political benefits from international regulatory action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, despite misperceptions, the IPCC has never produced a full and fair assessment of what is known and not known regarding the causes and consequences of global climate change, and its structure and processes ensure that it never will.

— Jul 19, 2022
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CO2 is CO2 is CO2— the Implications for Emissions Caps

CO2 is CO2 is CO2— the Implications for Emissions Caps is a new study that finds if policymakers want to reduce CO2 emissions in Canada, they should allow industry to do so in the least costly way possible, instead of arbitrarily capping emissions from certain sectors—such as oil and gas—while allowing other sectors to continue to increase emissions, since CO2 molecules are all identical regardless of their source.

— Jun 23, 2022
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Canada’s Wasteful Plan to Regulate Plastic Waste

Canada’s Wasteful Plan to Regulate Plastic Waste is a new study that finds Ottawa’s plan to ban plastics by 2030 will have virtually no effect on the environment as only one per cent of Canada’s plastic waste is ever released into the environment as litter, but could ultimately cost Canadians $300 million a year.

— Mar 3, 2022
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Is Canada’s Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act a Parliamentary Placebo?

Is Canada’s Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act a Parliamentary Placebo? contends that the new federal "net-zero" law is unnecessary, not legally-binding, and potentially very costly for Canadians.

— Jan 13, 2022
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Is Climate Catastrophe Really 10 Years Away?

Is Climate Catastrophe Really 10 Years Away? is a new study that finds the increasingly accepted idea that the world has 10 years to avoid catastrophic climate change is overstated due to the nature of the models that this assertion is largely based on. In fact, real-world data over the last twenty years has demonstrated the main models being used to forecast the future climate have proven inaccurate and unreliable.

— Jul 27, 2021
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Off Target: The Economics Literature Does Not Support the 1.5°C Climate Ceiling

Off Target: The Economics Literature Does Not Support the 1.5°C Climate Ceiling finds that the government policies required to implement the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s goal, to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, would impose social and economic costs that far exceed the expected benefits.

— Jul 13, 2021
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Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste: How’s Canada Doing?

Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste: How’s Canada Doing? is a new study that finds Canadians, on a per-person basis, generated 959 kilograms of municipal solid waste in 2018 compared to 980 kilograms in 2002. Crucially, waste from residential or household sources is on the rise, comprising more than 40 per cent of total waste generation, while waste generated from non-residential sources—industrial, commercial, etc.—has declined in Canada.

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