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Category: News Roundup

Extinction bait and switch

Evidently there’s this coordinated movement to bring down “the system” worldwide and replace it with peace love and trust. Oh,...
10 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

Warm regards

Environment and Climate Change Canada celebrated Carbon Tax Day by releasing a report that, scary headlines notwithstanding, boils down to...
03 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

Math is hard, saving the planet is easy

When the dreaded federal carbon tax finally took effect April 1, small businesses were still baffled, as they’d been warning...
03 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

Virtual lack of reality

A new report from the Manhattan Institute warns that the laws of physics make a green energy revolution impossible. Advocates,...
03 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

Genuflecting at the climate altar again

Beset by scandal, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffles his cabinet again, bringing in Joyce Murray as Treasury Board president. And...
27 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Climate indulgences

Metro Vancouver has asked two federal Liberal ministers to let it off the hook for price-fixing because it was in...
27 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

And yet it snows

The Ottawa Sun reports a typical story about governmental secrecy with a strange climate twist. It seems the City of...
27 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

At the altar of climate change

Kevin Vickers, the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms who performed so heroically in helping stop the 2014 terrorist attack on Parliament,...
20 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Heavy breathing

At one of many whee-let’s-skip-school-and-insult-the-adults youth protests in favour of the Green New Deal or something, the Associated Press cheerfully...
20 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Political science

In the Netherlands, the government panicked a week before their March 20 provincial elections (which have significant national ramifications because...
20 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Oil industry hit by climate change

No, not that one, the olive oil industry. Evidently the Italian crop has collapsed because of… climate change. Never mind...
13 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Help help Montreal is melting

Radio Canada just killed winter again. “Forget the snowy winters of your childhood” it proclaimed, on the grounds that the...
13 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Trash can

The Atlantic reports that Americans are finally joining the church of recycling. Regrettably there’s now nowhere to put the stuff,...
13 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Don't put that in your pipeline

While most normal people worry that Bill C-69 will make it nearly impossible to get resource projects approved in Canada,...
06 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

It worked so well back home

NBC is very excited that Washington State Governor Jay Inslee has become roughly the 4,000th person to enter the race...
06 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Oh heh heh that invented data

The BBC, Paul Homewood notes, has been forced to retract fake claims about extreme weather based on a now discredited...
06 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

Leaving town

As a convoy of “United We Roll” trucks concerned about the Alberta oil industry leaves Ottawa to abuse from the...
27 Feb, 2019| News Roundup

Ad hominem Happerem

The righteous are in high dudgeon because a proposed White House panel on climate change will include Will Happer, eminent...
27 Feb, 2019| News Roundup

Run in circles, scream and shout

Edmundston, NB, like Halifax and Vancouver, declares a climate change emergency. The mayor alleges “torrential rains and extreme flood events,...
27 Feb, 2019| News Roundup

It's better to adapt to climate... policy

In Australia, misguided alternative energy schemes have created high prices and rolling blackouts. And now the Australian Energy Market Commission...
20 Feb, 2019| News Roundup

Children's crusade 2.0

The usual suspects are over the moon because a bunch of European children are staging school strikes on behalf of...
20 Feb, 2019| News Roundup

Up the down thermometer

The latest “doom and gloom” headlines on climate include “2018 was fourth-hottest year on record, NASA says/ World data shows...
13 Feb, 2019| News Roundup

Cables to carry money to nowhere

Germany, renowned for economic efficiency, has given the world a remarkable display of how misguided green energy policies can burn...
13 Feb, 2019| News Roundup

CBC admits error... sort of

A long and arduous campaign by professional engineer Robert Muir finally led the CBC ombudsman to rebuke its Radio Canada...
13 Feb, 2019| News Roundup

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