‘Oil and gas are a gift from God… The people need them.’
Surprisingly, these remarks were not made by US president-elect Donald Trump, waxing lyrical about the joys of ‘the liquid gold’ on a three-hour podcast. No, these were actually the words of the host of COP29 – delivered at this year’s United Nations climate summit.
In contrast to President Trump’s chaotic first-term transition, the second Trump administration has the chance to be disciplined when it comes into office on January 20, 2025. Some of the Biden administration’s most pernicious policies were enacted, not through Congress, but via executive orders and other non-legislative maneuvers. That means the Trump team can reverse many of those policies using the same procedures. It should do so immediately upon taking office.
The mega-rich are using private jets like taxis, warn climate scientists who tracked flights to calculate the planet-warming gases they release.
The scientists worked out that the carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to climate change, rose by 46% between 2019 and 2023.
Researchers traced all private flights globally, including summer weekend trips to Ibiza, Spain and travel to the Fifa World Cup and the UN climate conference in Dubai.
These would be the same folks who want you to give up your car and take public transit – for the environment.
Is there a natural resource project being built somewhere in Canada? Does it overlap with the title land, reserve lands, or other jurisdictions of a First Nation? If so, expect green NGOs to turn it into another dramatic episode so they can keep fundraising.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and his department have finally decided what is the greatest threat to Canada’s ecology.
It’s not your SUV spewing emissions from its tailpipe as you idle it absentmindedly in your driveway. Nor is it the oilsands or new pipelines or oceangoing tankers full of crude. It’s not even coal-fired power plants or the natural gas furnace that keeps your home warm during long Canadian winters. (Although, of course, those are all menaces the federal government has proposed to regulate out of existence.)
Recently the US House Judiciary Committee identified the existence of what they call the ‘climate cartel.’
And at the heart of it — a Canadian banker…
“The climate cartel has declared war on the American way of life. The climate cartel is waging “a Global World War” for net zero against disfavored American companies, including those in the fossil fuel, aviation, and farming industries that allow Americans to drive, fly, and eat.”
The Left wants to blame Republicans for the environmentalism-induced mental-health woes afflicting many young people.
Time magazine has discovered the real cause of the mental-health epidemic of “climate anxiety” that is affecting America’s youth: Republicans.
One would think that the person whom Time trusts to argue that Republicans are to blame for this very real mental-health crisis would be an expert in climatology, atmospheric sciences, or geology. Instead, the author Jerel Ezell, according to his website, is a “social epidemiologist,” visual artist, and professor of “community health sciences” at the University of California, Berkeley, . . . because of course he/him is.
Last Thursday, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that it’s possible for the province’s climate plan to violate the Charter rights of Ontarians — namely, the equality rights of young people, and the right to life, liberty and security of all.
It’s a lesson for conservatives on the futility of compromising with progressives: if you try meet your opponents half way, expect the (also progressive) courts to make you go all the way.
… Today, Jo Nova at her eponymous blog reported on the news that executives at three of the biggest names in the tech world, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, have been buying up nuclear reactors to supply the tremendous amount of energy required to run AI programs and data collection/storage facilities…
The Ontario government says it will introduce legislation that would require municipalities to get provincial approval before building any new bike lanes that reduce lanes of vehicle traffic.
Municipalities would need to demonstrate any proposed bike lanes will not have a “negative impact in vehicle traffic,” according to the province.
The government will also request data from municipalities on bike lane projects initiated in the last five years, Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said Tuesday in Toronto.
A good move. Toronto being run by lunatics has miles of bike lanes that see few riders.
Mother Nature hates solar farms.
What Hurricane Milton did to a Duke Energy solar farm in Florida. https://t.co/3JJuQPHo2d pic.twitter.com/w2QV5WA9l7
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) October 13, 2024
Grow your own fruit and veg – and destroy the planet. Allotment produce, much prized by proud food-growing citizens the world over, has six times the ‘carbon’ footprint of conventional agriculture, according to a recent paper published by Nature. “Steps must be taken to ensure that urban agriculture supports, and does not undermine, urban decarbonisation efforts,” demand the authors. What have these people been smoking? Surely not some of the puff circulating at the recent Psychedelic Climate Week in New York. Highlights included a discussion on funding ketamine-assisted therapy and a panel on ‘Balancing Investing and Impact with Climate and Psychedelic Capital’.
Decades ago, Pierre Trudeau said, “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.”
The comment, originating from the Globe and Mail, pertained to his Omnibus Bill, which changed the Criminal Code of Canada to legalize sex acts performed by two consenting adults in private. Trudeau’s declaration vindicated many gay Canadians. Along with his pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth in 1977, it symbolized an end to the union of church and state in Canada.
But, a new church and state were rejoined in 2015 when his son Justin became prime minister. Pierre Trudeau rolled over in his grave.
Five eminent CBC alumni are urging the public broadcaster to deepen its coverage of the climate crisis in the face of an escalating “civilizational threat.”
“As journalists, members of the CBC family and as Canadians concerned about our future, we ask that the CBC treat the climate breakdown as the existential crisis and civilizational threat that it is,” reads a copy of the letter obtained by the Star.
