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 …
Category Archive: Climate change
Jul 10
On CO2 and the G8 “promise”
This week, the G8 promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (mostly CO2) by 80% by 2050. Now they didn’t commit to what datum point in time is (1990? 2009?) and didn’t really sign anything that would penalize a nation for failing to do so. Which makes it kind of meaningless. Canada’s environment minister, Jim Prentice, …
Jun 17
Oil Sands CO2 emissions only slightly higher than other oil sources
Cambridge Energy Research Associates has published a study that shows that the lifecycle CO2 emissions from oil sands is only marginally higher that other oil sources: This pretty much refutes the statements made by some environmentalists (and the US administration) regarding oil sands being worse for the climate…
Apr 18
On Cap and Trade of CO2
There has been, in the circle of those who are looking for ways to control carbon, a debate about the best way to do this. There are basically three ideas put forward: State-imposed limits (Central Planning) Carbon taxes Indirect administration (Cap-and-Trade)
Mar 03
Where do they get their numbers?
In Tuesday’s National Post, Juliet O’Neill of Canwest News Service quotes the climate change campaign manager of the WWF Canada, Keith Stewart: The lack of reference to the oil sands was no accident, says Keith Stewart, manager of the climate change campaign at the World Wildlife Federation of Canada. The federation estimates that while it …
Nov 18
Global Warming overestimated?
A very interesting study from Cornell University today. By entering realistic estimates of stocks of black carbon in soil from two Australian savannas into a computer model that calculates carbon dioxide release from soil, the researchers found that carbon dioxide emissions from soils were reduced by about 20 percent over 100 years, as compared with …
Oct 20
Lorne Gunter writes the truth!
Interesting: …it clearly shows that in the past four years — the period corresponding to reduced solar activity — all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has disappeared. It may be that more global warming doubters are surfacing because there just isn’t any global warming. Finally, nature puts the lie to the enviroterrorists …
Oct 15
On Economic and Climate Models
Robert Murphy provides an excellent comparison of the risks in Economic Modeling which led to the stagflation of the 1970s (ie. it wasn’t predicted so the economists gave governments bad advice), to climate modeling… Very good read.
Jul 05
Then we are surely doomed…
The head of the IPCC panel of climate scientists has made a cataclysmic statement: Only seven years left for global warming target: UN panel chief “…But in order to do that, we have a window of opportunity of only seven years because emissions will have to peak by 2015 and reduce after that. We cannot …
Jul 05
Then we are surely doomed…
The head of the IPCC panel of climate scientists has made a cataclysmic statement: Only seven years left for global warming target: UN panel chief “…But in order to do that, we have a window of opportunity of only seven years because emissions will have to peak by 2015 and reduce after that. We cannot …