The President of the Czech Republic made a great speech in Washington, leading up to the Copenhagen Summit. We should not forget how the doctrine of global warming came into being. In a normal case, everything starts with an empirical observation, with the discovery of evident trends or tendencies. Then follow scientific hypotheses and their …
Category Archive: Climate change
Nov
06
Nov
06
Wind Power doesn’t work out
Jim Harris, the former Green Party leader, writes in the National Post today about how Denmark is a leader in wind power, yet he fails to point out how wind power in Denmark has not been the magically solution to carbon emission reductions, and that the cost is prohibitive. Notably: Much has been written about …
Oct
30
The Folly of Copenhagen
In today’s National Post, and elsewhere around the net, there is much commentary about the upcoming Copenhagen Conference where the UN and the Climate Change Priesthood will try to guilt the western world into signing on to a treaty that will cripple their economies and transfer wealth to the developing world. Peter Foster does a …
Oct
13
Ignatieff promises MORE spending
OK, I’m confused. Michael Ignatieff has complained in the past that the government of Canada wasn’t spending enough money on stimulus, then complained that the government of Canada was running too large of a deficit (i.e. spending too much), and now promises to spend even MORE money on clean energy (whatever that might be). Michael …
Oct
09
Communism, Climate and Copenhagen
The upcoming “negotiations” in Copenhagen will be the downfall of civilization if the so-called “Green” movement is successful and nations are foolish enough to sign on to the son of Kyoto treaty. Kevin Libin writes at length in the National Post on the details of the draft Copenhagen Treaty that would take sovereignty out of …
Oct
01
Do climate modelers include this?
It appears that the solar minimum we are experiencing has resulted in a significant increase in cosmic radiation reaching the earth. There are two issues here: If there is a 20-30% increase in cosmic radiation reaching the earth, then we should be seeing an increase in cloud cover (since cloud formation can be triggered by …
Sep
29
The Climate is Changing
Always has, always will. I just finished Ian Plimer‘s book, Heaven and Earth, which provides a very extensive and compelling argument against anthropogenic global warming. Thus was a even further angered by Jeffrey Simpson’s ridiculous column in the Globe and Mail: The world faces its greatest tragedy of the commons with the warming of …
Sep
22
How to reduce CO2 emissions
There is a very clear article in the National Post today that points the way to reducing so-called greenhouse gas emissions: Recession has set the stage for the sharpest fall in world greenhouse-gas emissions in 40 years, an estimate yesterday showed, as world leaders gathered in New York to seek a way forward on a …
Sep
22
Misinformation on Climate
Interesting that the National Post would publish a letter from the US Embassy on climate change, without commentary, when the letter is mostly political rhetoric that is presaged by misinformation. The letter states that: Already, the impacts of climate change are apparent and severe. Arctic sea ice is disappearing faster than expected. The Greenland Ice …
Aug
14
On Carbon Sequestration
Lawrence Solomon has an excellent article in the National Post concerning the concept of carbon-capture and sequestration and the fact that the sequestration step is a problem that has not been shown to be particularly safe nor reliable. Admittedly, CO2 has been injected into oil fields around North America in significant quantities to enhance oil …