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Tag Archives: Science and technology
Kudos to Environment Minister Peter Kent for giving Canadians a climate scare-free Earth Day
Happily, and perhaps unexpectedly, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent resisted the temptation to associate his Earth Day speech with the climate scare. In an announcement that included nothing at all about climate, global warming, greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide, Kent and his Alberta counter-part Diana McQueen instead discussed a practical, science-based plan to enhance public access to real pollution data from the oilsands.
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Technology, Unsorted
Tagged Canadian Energy Strategy, Climate alarmists, Global warming propaganda, Science and technology
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Overconfidence: the Achilles heel of global warming alarmists
What Canada 2020 panelists and organizers seem to not understand is that all planning for the future involves sensible risk assessment. This includes considering, not just the possible impacts of climate change, but also the likelihood of them actually coming about. And that means dealing with uncertainties. Lecturing Canadians about fictional global warming certainty when future climate states are anything but certain, does us all a disservice and, in the long run will sway no one not already committed to the scare.
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Tagged Canadian Energy Strategy, Climate alarmists, Global warming propaganda, Science and technology
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Media bamboozled into promoting another climate scare story
The new scientific paper “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years” attempted to show that twentieth century “global temperature” rise was unusual when seen in the context of the period since the end of the last glacial. But their research demonstrated no such thing. In fact, it was not even possible for the researchers to come to such a conclusion, based on the data they collected and the computational methods they employed. Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Energy Strategy, Climate alarmists, Global warming propaganda, Science and technology
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To save Keystone XL, Canada needs leaders with the courage to lead, not simply pander to political correctness
Our leaders need to change tack quickly or Keystone XL is at risk of being rejected by the Obama administration due to a colossal public relations mistake. Continue reading
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Canada can be more than a follower on climate change
Minister Kent told his audience in Guelph about “the important role of science in driving the development of world-class regulations in Canada”. Now is his chance to make this boast a reality on the climate file. Continue reading
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Republican response to Obama throwing down the gauntlet on climate and energy was weak, wholly inadequate
Republican Senator Marco Rubio’s feeble response to President Obama throwing down the gauntlet on the nation’s energy policy. Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Energy Strategy, Climate alarmists, Global warming propaganda, Hurricane Sandy, Obama, Rubio, Science and technology, State of the Union, U.S. temperature
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Environment Canada quick off the mark with global warming propaganda
Besides trying to generate good media coverage in the wake of Obama’s climate pronouncements, EC officials are working to soften Canadians up to more costly CO2 regulations to supposedly help stop climate change. 2013 is the year the Conservatives promised oil and gas companies will be hit with new emission rules.
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Beware snap judgments on U.N. climate conferences’ successes or failures – it is more complicated than most people think
The most realistic assessment to appear in main stream media was that published about a week after the conference ended, written by Connie Hedegaard, European commissioner for climate action in the European Commission. She told climate campaigners:
“Yes progress was slow and frustrating, but the main goal was to prepare the ground for the big 2015 talks. Job done.” Continue reading
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Decoding the dangerous energy propaganda in Obama’s Inaugural Address
Data from the Energy Information Administration indicates that in 2007, 2008 and 2009, the U.S. added more non‐hydroelectric renewable capacity than was added in natural gas, coal, oil, and nuclear. This is a dangerous trend that must be reversed as soon as possible. Continue reading
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Uncovering U.S. climate agency’s global warming propaganda – Part 3
In my FCPP blog OpEd posting of January 7, 2013, “Meteorologist discovers U.S. government announcing records before all data analyzed; ‘warmest ever’ July not true” , I promised to update readers when I had analyzed responses to my queries of NOAA’s NCDC. Here is that update. Continue reading
Uncovering U.S. climate agency’s global warming propaganda – Part 2
Starting in their June 2009 SOTC report, NCDC moved the warning about the data being preliminary and so subject to significant change to the very bottom of the document where almost no one would see it. Continue reading
Meteorologist discovers U.S. government announcing records before all data analyzed; ‘warmest ever’ July not true
The widely-reported assertion that July 2012 was the hottest month in the instrumental record for the contiguous U.S. is now shown to be wrong. Continue reading