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(November 30, 2023) What can we expect from Dubai?

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Global warming issues and the IPCC

(August 30, 2023) The primary causes of current global warming are natural forces, not CO2 emissions. Scientists and governments have neither the knowledge nor the means to control the earth’s climate, at least not at this time. What few people realize is that on a technical basis, the earth remains in the grip of an ice age which began about 3 million years ago. Our current Holocene Interglacial is no more than a brief warm period in a long-term ice age.

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Measuring Canadian energy subsidies

(August 17, 2023) Controversies over the development of estimates for energy subsidies in Canada has impeded subsidy reform and elimination. A new report from the Fraser Institute looks at the extent of those controversies and the difficulties that have developed in achieving a consensus on key definitions of what constitutes a subsidy.

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The energy transition Ontario really needs is to nuclear

(June 9, 2023) When you factor in its reliability, nuclear is cheaper than solar or wind, which are available only intermittently.

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Junk Science Week — Lawrence Solomon: Levelling coal makes wind look good

(May 25, 2023) U.S. use of ‘levelized costs of energy’ distorts by counting taxes and subsidies.

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Canada’s rising carbon tax and the supreme court

(April 1, 2023) The expansion of federal control over the economies of resource-rich provinces will ensure those provinces, and all Canadians, will lose out through escalating energy prices that increase the cost of living generally.

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Climate Porn: the hottest day on record

(March 22, 2023) If you value independent thought, you have to be able to identify the bubble wrap and break free. Legal expert Andrew Roman offers an escape from climate alarmism bubble wrap.

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Electricity generation with 100% renewables is a fantasy

(December 3, 2022) Breaking down the high cost of renewables based on the data.

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A 2nd Chernobyl

(August 19, 2022)  Who knows where the fallout from Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power complex 50 percent larger than Chernobyl, might land?

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The Big Green Lie almost everyone claims to believe

(August 2, 2022) The claim that the “science was settled” on climate change never withstood scrutiny. What is settled is the abject failure of the three-decade-long attempt by the bureaucracies of the 195 countries of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to convince anyone other than themselves, a credulous media, and a relatively few gullible people that climate change represents an existential threat.

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