Tag Archives: Climate Change

Climate change and the food supply: it’s not going to get any easier

Kate Lunau is covering the 2012 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, a gathering of some of the world’s finest brains and celebrities of science. On Feb. 16-20, Lunau will bring you a … Continue reading

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‘I Feel Duped on Climate Change’ (9)

Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he argues that the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate … Continue reading

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Delingpole: How green zealots are destroying the planet

Just imagine a world where you never had to worry about global warming, where the ice caps, the ‘drowning’ Maldives and the polar bears were all doing just fine. Imagine a world where CO2 was our friend, fossil fuels were … Continue reading

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Climate crackdown

In recent days I’ve been receiving calls and emails asking what the U.S. Justice Department wants with me. In fact, there has been a misunderstanding. I write a blog about climate-change dogma that has a similar Web address to a … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Political greenhorns

A major problem with addressing the issue of climate change effectively is that most politicians are illiterate on the subject. They don’t understand the enormity of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels — which power modern civilization. Indeed, the idea fossil … Continue reading

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Robson: Don’t pretend we know what causes climate change (1)

Not only is the Kyoto Protocol technically flawed, the so-called science behind it is utter twaddle. Never mind complicated things like non-linear mathematics or, indeed, mathematics of any sort. The alarmists can’t possibly know how to predict the future of … Continue reading

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Desmond Tutu and the oil sands’ misguided critics (1)

It is somewhat mystifying to us why the oil sands have become such an obsession for the world’s eco set. The oil sands’ contribution to total annual global emissions is about the same as that of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants, … Continue reading

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Corcoran: Cooler science (3)

Only a week to go before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins in Durban, South Africa, where world governments will again attempt to draft a global plan to control carbon emissions so as to stave off … Continue reading

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Federal government to spend $149M on ‘credible, science-based response’ to climate change

The federal government will spend $148.8-million over the next five years to expand existing programs that help the country deal with impacts of climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Tuesday. Kent explained that the investments were “important” to … Continue reading

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Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague

It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’. Professor … Continue reading

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Laframboise: Conspiracy of silence

Next month, thousands of bureaucrats, politicians, media, activists and scientists will travel to Durban, South Africa, for the latest round of UN climate talks. We’ll be advised that the world must slash its carbon dioxide emissions because a United Nations … Continue reading

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