As the chattering classes go gaga over Mark Carney approving possible approval of a pipeline approval process, Peter Menzies warns of “That sad, skeptical moment when you realize the sluggish pace of Canada’s fast lane” where deeds are so rare people stoop to celebrating words.
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This week we discuss the occurrence of the first Atlantic hurricane, unsettled settled science on overlooked lakes and warming, scientists discovering Earth has always been unstable outside Nepal, inhaling "carbon pollution" to help Alzheimer's, & more.
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Those with even fairly short historical memories will recall that the “Green New Deal” was meant to do for the US economy what Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” supposedly did in the 1930s. Like plowing crops under. Colour us skeptical.
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The do-gooders at Global Affairs Canada want to end poverty, injustice, gender discrimination (including "early and forced marriage" and bad weather. But they also want to deny poor countries reliable energy to combat poverty, injustice and and child marriage.
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On energy poverty & darkness there’s an issue we want to address because of a National Geographic promotion of “The Best Dark Sky Destinations in Europe for Stargazing”. It’s that “light pollution” actually is a thing, unlike “carbon pollution”. And one we can and should fight.
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This week’s climate canary is Andrew Roman, a Canadian lawyer who spent his career working on energy and environment-related litigation. He surveys the global scope of climate litigation, its apparently limitless funds, and its total absence of common sense.
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It seems a lifetime ago, though technically it was only July, when a cluster of forest fires in Canada brought, of all things, forest fire smoke down through Ontario into the US northeast. Notice how quiet it’s been lately instead? Guess what changed. Yup. The fires went out.
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Curlytop Knotweed is Polygonum lapathifolium L. in Latin, but also Persicaria lapathifolia. And in English it has even more names (many including "smartweed") and some medical value. Whatever you call it, and to eat or admire for pretty pink flowers, more CO2 means more of it.
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Scientific American “Today in Science” tells us that “El Niño has stymied storm formation even more than forecasters expected”. How it is possible to keep reporting that scientists are surprised that their predictions fail without ever admitting that the science is not settled?
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An item from the Canadian political insider Hill Times starts “As wildfires rage” and then endorses censorship to make sure nobody checks whether they really are raging.
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This week we ponder simultaneous heat and frost warnings, experts saying that "climate denial" is the new hate, the fate of Canada's energy industry, a new California climate law on fashion brands, losing those "persnickety" coffee trees to global warming, and more.
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Every once in a while climate alarmists notice the fabled “Green Energy Transition” isn't as easy as they said. As when “Heathrow Airport embodies the difficulties of cutting emissions from flying..." But too often they then dismiss the difficulties as illusory.
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A weird item in The Atlantic “Weekly Planet” informs us the Netherlands is overrun with “Louisiana Crawfish” and “You Will Never Eat Yourself Out of This Crisis”. But what’s weird is that the actual story doesn’t mention climate once. Have they gone sane?
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Climate activists are as keen to follow the money as to follow the science. And not in a good way. They’re quick to claim “deniers” are crooked liars backed by “Big Oil” but if you ask them to follow the money from Beijing to Western climate activists, they get very quiet.
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This week’s Canary in a Climate World Vol. 3 entry from Dr. Ken Green notes that when the global warming scare erupted, sensible observers concluded that trying to stop it wouldn't work well but being resilient would. So guess which path alarmists chose.
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Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth placed a lot of emphasis on a temperature reconstruction from oxygen isotopes in ice cores, mainly by Dr. Lonnie Thompson. Turns out “Dr. Thompson’s thermometer” was upside down. Oh, that's inconvenient.
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Kielmeyera coriacea (Mart.) or more popularly pau santo, Portuguese for “holy wood”, is from Brazil & is revered for its medicinal properties and sought as a potential substitute for cork. So pop one as 3 experiments showed an additional 300 ppm CO2 boosted its growth by 88.7%.
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Roger Pielke Jr. skewers World Weather Attribution and everyone who peddles their pseudo-science, revealing that he'd replicated their studies and experimented with their methodology and sure enough, it's rigged to blame anything on climate change.
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The obsession with climate change has undermined science, public faith in science, journalism and public faith in journalism. As when a zealot looks at the AI debate and sees only “Exxon knew”, a favourite left-wing conspiracy theory.
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This week we reflect why climate alarmists want a colder darker planet, pesky Arctic ice refusing to melt (though Canada's government says it is), “green” batteries turning red then brown, an NYU “Impact Center” meddling in politics then turning tail, and more.
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