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Category: News Roundup

And death will be a relief
The BBC reports that climate change will kill everything cute and cuddly while cockroaches reign supreme. Which sounds disgusting. But...
21 Aug, 2019| News Roundup

Debate ends, spike at 11
This just in! The debate on man-made global warming has ended. Again. But really now. This time for sure. The...
31 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Relax, the situation is under control
One of many headlines that environmentally minded news outlets can recycle is that renewable energy is now competitive with oil...
24 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Tick tick tick
Purely anecdotal evidence suggests that we’re having a bad summer for ticks in Ontario. And the wretched things increasingly carry...
24 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Follow the money
A routine press release from a Canadian government ministry announces “$4.7 million to fund nine climate change research projects.” By...
17 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Somebody open a window
Climate Home News runs a headline that ought to put even a committed enthusiast into a deep sleep. “It looks...
17 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes
Vancouver grocer David Kwen puts weird slogans on plastic bags to shame shoppers into bringing reusables. He thought printing “Wart...
17 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Melting ice, how strange
Given prevailing dogma one would not expect to find a news story about shrinking polar ice being a big scientific...
10 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Heat and cold
It’s sweltering in Europe. And of course it’s put down to climate not weather, unlike recent cold winters. But while...
10 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Iced
If you want more proof of climate change look out your window. Anything will do. Including a hail storm in...
10 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Where are the numbers?
There’s a fair bit of jiggery-pokery in the econometric models that say we can get rid of fossil fuels at...
03 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Where's anybody?
We noted last week that Canada’s Prime Minister Justin “Plastic Forks” Trudeau seems remarkably unwilling to reduce his own carbon...
03 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Who let the dogs out?
A photo of some dogs walking on water in Greenland seals the deal. The planet is on fire. “Experts say...
03 Jul, 2019| News Roundup

Where's Justin?
It’s easy to say others should emit less carbon. But it’s harder to emit less yourself. So what kind of...
26 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

Money, by Pink Floyd
Rock legend David Gilmour of Pink Floyd has auctioned off his guitars including the iconic “black strat” used to record...
26 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

No money, by the Green party
Germany’s Green Party wants to ban industrial farming to help fight climate change. The Daily Telegraph warns that “the proposal...
26 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

The Department of Duh
There’s no way to pretty up the dilemma alarmists say we face. Barring the development of important new fuel sources...
19 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

When did comfort become a luxury?
A story in the National Post says a housing shortage in Montreal is “threatening the city’s reputation for affordable rent.”...
19 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

Do you want us to burn up?
An article in the Washington Post declares with unseemly glee that a study in the undoubtedly unbiased journal Earth’s Future...
19 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

World War III
You’d think that after decades of climate hyperbole that keeps getting debunked the alarmists would learn to tone it down....
12 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

The Canadian angle
While the world tears itself apart over getting rid of fossil fuels, or doesn’t, Canada is having its own special...
12 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

Fish suffer as fish flourish
Apparently climate change is producing such favourable conditions for Alaska sockeye salmon that they’re skipping an entire year in fresh...
12 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

Unclear on the concept
When Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer announced a plan to remove GST from all home heating bills it drew considerable...
05 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

Can't anybody here play this game?
The latest scandal to engulf Britain’s energy policy is the discovery that while banning fracking in the UK to ensure...
05 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

The plane truth
Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change was in Newfoundland on May 23, pointing a trembling finger at icebergs. Which...
05 Jun, 2019| News Roundup

Is Toronto burning?
In the interest of evidence-based decision-making we concede that Toronto did experience a brutal, record heat wave that forced the...
29 May, 2019| News Roundup

Worms ate my planet
The National Post, channeling the New York Times’ climate obsession, runs a Times story about how southern European earthworms are...
29 May, 2019| News Roundup

Rats, a fanatic
The New York Times reports that their city is overrun with rats. The culprit is, well, you guessed it. OK,...
29 May, 2019| News Roundup

Up ended down under
In Australia the conservative “Liberal” party just won a “stunning” election victory which the New York Times ascribed to the...
22 May, 2019| News Roundup

Where'd my glacier go?
As we noted back in April, the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier in Greenland has really flummoxed scientists. It’s meant to melt...
22 May, 2019| News Roundup

Seal of doom
The Morris Animal Foundation reports that climate change is killing seal pups cruelly, giving them hookworm as their mothers neglect...
22 May, 2019| News Roundup

Only kids know
Scientific American hails a new study that finds that the right way to influence adults is to indoctrinate children. Of...
15 May, 2019| News Roundup

Blowing off the wind
H. Sterling Burnett notes that voters in formerly green Europe are turning against alternative energy because it’s becoming clear that...
15 May, 2019| News Roundup

Not in my back pasture
The New Zealand government has a plan to stop global warming. Or not, if farmers complain. In that case it...
15 May, 2019| News Roundup

Constitutional doesn't mean good
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has ruled that the federal carbon tax is constitutional. Which is good jurisprudence even though...
08 May, 2019| News Roundup

Not in my back pocket
Polls suggest strong support for action on man-made global warming. But actions say otherwise. Including in New Brunswick where mighty...
08 May, 2019| News Roundup

Blimey, a climate emergency
Britain beats Canada to become the first nation to declare a climate emergency. Which has a certain grim logic as...
08 May, 2019| News Roundup

No skyscrapers for you
No skyscrapers for you New York City mayor Bill de Blasio just struck a mighty blow against his own city,...
01 May, 2019| News Roundup

Reality check
This week Ottawa joined cities around the world in proclaiming trendy “climate emergencies” that enable them to leap into committee...
01 May, 2019| News Roundup

Surfing on Earth Day
Our Prime Minister does not practice what he preaches on carbon. As Brian Lilley wrote in the Toronto Sun, “Justin...
01 May, 2019| News Roundup

One bear does not a crisis make
News outlets from Britain to Biloxi, from Flanders to Australia and from Delhi to Ottawa ran an Associated Press story...
24 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

You'll never guess
Oh yes you will. A big scary headline says the earth is warming faster than settled science said. Actually, not...
24 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

Who saw that coming?
There’s one headline that never gets old when it comes to climate. “Global Warming Is Shrinking Glaciers Much Faster Than...
17 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

We're not going to fry
The dogma that every effect of global warming is bad obscures an important truth clear from the historical record and...
17 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

Oh no, our plan succeeded
Strange news from BC, which specializes in the stuff. Premier John Horgan, ardent advocate of carbon taxes and foe of...
10 Apr, 2019| News Roundup

Spoiled fish at the Free Lunch Diner
There is famously no free lunch. Rational people don’t expect any form of power to bring only benefits and no...
10 Apr, 2019| 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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