Would you go to a geologist for a cancer diagnosis? Of course not. So why should we listen to 200 medical journal editors pontificating about the climate emergency? Their intervention in the debate is unwelcome and unnecessary.
Climate Change
Afghanistan and climate change: the West’s twin failures both have the same cause – a failure to accept reality
The West’s humiliation in Afghanistan has an older brother: climate change.
As siblings, the two share characteristics, most obviously an inability to confront unwelcome facts. In Afghanistan, there was a large constituency led by the Pentagon invested in the mantra of proclaiming progress in the fight against the Taliban. Climate has its own industrial complex of NGOs, climate scientists, renewable energy lobbyists profiting from the energy transition, eager helpers in the media, and politicians posing as world saviors.
There’s too much discussion about climate change this election
Canadian political discourse puts a little bit too much time on climate change – particularly this election. In fact, climate change is taking priority over other important issues that Canadians care about.
Get ready for the left’s climate-change ‘emergency’ lockdowns
It’s convenient for politicians to treat every hurricane, tornado and flood as an apocalyptic sign from Gaia — and then blame political apostates for offending the goddess. But it’s an irrational way to think about the world. Because our situation is, in most ways, quantifiably better than before on nearly every front.
Study estimates how much coal, oil must be left in the ground to curb climate change
Researchers who estimate how much of the world’s coal, oil and natural gas reserves should be left unburned to slow the increase in climate-changing gases in the atmosphere say even more of these fossil fuels should be left in the ground.
Five critical steps that Canada must take to combat the climate crisis
We are 18 months into a global pandemic, three weeks into a federal-election campaign — and at least 26 years into a climate crisis.
Scientists have been warning for decades that increased average temperatures would lead to such extreme weather events as massive flooding and out-of-control wildfires.
We now are witnessing these events almost every week. In the past few days, we saw devastating flooding across the United States. In New York City, the financial centre of the most powerful country in the world, flood waters rose so rapidly that some residents couldn’t leave their homes, and drowned. This isn’t normal; it’s like 100-year storms happening monthly. Just the latest horror on a long list: the destruction of Lytton, British Columbia, by an out-of-control wildfire. And, unless we act now, it will get immeasurably worse.
‘Revolution or Ruin’ – Extinction Rebellion Activist Says Only Socialism Can Stop Climate Change
At an Extinction Rebellion protest on Saturday, a speaker claimed that the socialist model, along the lines of Communist Cuba, is the only way to combat supposedly man-made climate change.
North Korea: Kim Jong-un calls for urgent action on climate change
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un called on his officials to deal with food supply issues and highlighted the danger of climate change.
Canada must develop immigration policy as climate change increases likelihood of mass displacement
Canada is a signatory to a UN agreement for safe migration when there’s been a natural disaster. Yet, there’s no immigration policy in place.
Vancouver considers doing what no North American city has done so far — charging vehicles to use the road
Over the last six months, Canada’s National Observer has been looking into what’s working and what’s failing in cities across Canada as they rise to the challenge of fighting climate change. In a 13-part series, we will be taking you across the country, province by province, for a look at how cities are meeting the climate emergency with sustainable solutions.
Toronto is designed for a climate that doesn’t exist anymore and it needs to ‘face the reality,’ experts say
A report from the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released this week suggests extreme weather events, from wildfires to floods to extreme heat, are the direct result of a climate that has already changed, and it will result in more unpredictable weather.
The IPCC is not infallible
Politicians, pundits and the broader Twittering classes have adopted a perversely religious attitude towards the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report.
They don’t see it for what it is – a tendentious 41-page ‘summary for policymakers’ document, written by a committee in cahoots with governments around the world, and supplemented by thousands of pages of likely-to-be-unread analysis, projection and reference.
To Save Ourselves, We’ll Need This Very Different Economy
The pandemic is a big problem. Climate change is an even bigger problem. But the meta-problem is ecological overshoot.
Socialism is a big problem. Communism is an even bigger problem. But the meta-problem is a totalitarian dictatorship.
Terence Corcoran: Canada’s first ‘net-zero’ carbon fiasco
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pre-election bailout of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Muskrat Follies hydroelectric mega-boondoggle was announced last week with preposterous “build-back-better” claims about creating “a healthier and more prosperous future” that will help achieve a clean and decarbonized energy system for the province and the country.
Study warns of ‘irreversible transition’ in ocean currents that could rapidly freeze parts of North America
A large system of ocean currents in the Atlantic – which includes the Gulf Stream – has been disrupted due to human-caused climate change, scientists reported in a new study published Thursday. If that system collapses, it would lead to dramatic changes in worldwide weather patterns.