Despite the federal carbon tax, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fallen so far behind his target for reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, that not even the global recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was enough for him to achieve his 2020 target.
Bjorn Lomborg: Obsession with climate change distorts our priorities
Over the past decade, the global elite’s obsession with climate change has taken away from the many other major problems facing the planet — shown most dramatically by the invasion of Ukraine. Western European leaders should have spent the past decade diversifying energy sources and expanding shale gas, instead of shutting down nuclear plants and becoming scarily reliant on Russia. But the looming war is far from the only thing they have managed to ignore.
Does federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault know what’s in his own plan to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions?
He’s denying a Toronto Sun column by Kris Sims, B.C. Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, that his government is planning a new surtax on pickup trucks.
Apple launched its 2022 Earth Day initiative Thursday with $1 for every Apple Pay transaction until the environmental holiday on April 22 donated to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), an explicitly anti-nuclear group.
“WWF has a vision for the future which phases out the use of fossil fuel and nuclear in the share of energy use across the globe,” reads a 2003 position paper from the non-profit outlining a stance maintained nearly 20 years later.
Canadians should prepare themselves for an expensive summer at the pumps as the price of oil continues to skyrocket, with one analyst warning that a $2 per litre price tag may become a common occurrence in many regions.
The warning comes after months of record-high price fluctuations driven by post-pandemic demand for fuel and a decrease in supply, and compounded further by sanctions on Russian oil handed down in March.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the Conservative are lying about a secret government plan to add a green tax to pickup trucks.
There have been several tweets from Tory MPs, the Conservative party and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in recent days insisting the government is about to extend a federal green levy to pickups.
“This so-called fee on trucks doesn’t exist,” Guilbeault said Wednesday, in a tweet responding to Conservative MP and leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre.
Internal polling must have been horrendous.
What if everything we’ve been told about global greenhouse gas emissions is a lie?
What if actual emissions have been dramatically under-reported for years by the 196 nations, including Canada, that signed the Paris climate accord in 2015?
On the irony of self-proclaimed guardians of the earth promoting a regressive—even primitive—energy technology that is killing millions of the planet’s creatures.
ANextEra subsidiary’s recent revelation of the mass killing of bald and golden eagles exposed the ugly secret that nearly all wind projects share: the wanton destruction of rare and endangered species. On April 5, in a case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, ESI Energy pleaded guilty to killing more than 150 eagles in eight states. The company was fined $8 million.
The Trudeau government is planning to hit Canadians with a big new tax on their trucks and sport utility vehicles.
The proposed tax would cost an extra $1,000 on a Ford F-150, and a Ram 3500 heavy-duty pickup truck would get hit with a $4,000 tax.
On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, the world was warned that billions would die soon because of a disastrous ice age. The Earth had been cooling for thirty years, and it was about to get much worse. Crops would not survive the ice age, so the people couldn’t be fed. The Earth was cooling even though CO2, the population, and fossil fuel consumption were rising rapidly, which we are told causes warming.
There’s a moment in the TV show Community where the character Jeff Winger is exasperated with his study group’s attempt to interfere in their friend’s life.
Predictably, the interference doesn’t work and Jeff explode: “I hate to say ‘I told you so,’ so, I will SHOUT IT THROUGH CUPPED HANDS!”
Taxpayers are shouting through cupped hands: CARBON TAXES COST MORE THAN THE REBATES WE GET BACK!
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other global leaders, especially in Europe, are touting wind and solar power to end Europe’s dependency on Russia for 45% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil.
They claim it’s the solution to global energy security threatened by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
I’ve been a car enthusiast for a long time. In my early teens, I would take a bus from my town in the mountains, down to the city. I walked to the avenue where most of the car dealers were. To their chagrin, I would end up with a large collection of their glossy (and for them pricey) auto brochures. I would pore over these with great interest.
In those days, a fast car would run the quarter-mile in roughly 13 to 14 seconds and do 0 to 60 between six and eight seconds. Such a vehicle would need a large 6 to 7l V-8 and with essentially no power accessories or air conditioning.
The apocalyptic language of United Nations alarmists is back.
The 2,913 pages of the United Nations’ “Climate Change 2022” report make clear only that nothing is clear. Written in the incomprehensible language of climate science, there are only two things that are easily understood: the word taxes, which appears 270 times, and the word costs, which appears 1,585 times.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Chicago had a problem: the city was only slightly higher in elevation than Lake Michigan, which caused sewage and other runoff to pool at the centre of town, leading to smelly living conditions and numerous disease outbreaks. To solve it, engineers physically raised the city — buildings, streets, sidewalks and all — and installed a citywide sewage system. This is the power of human ingenuity, and it offers a lesson in how we can tackle some of the world’s most intractable problems, such as climate change.
