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Category: OP ED Watch

Hysteria all the way from the bank
In a remarkable burst of irresponsible ignorance, a leading Canadian bank just warned major investment clients that a great wind...
30 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Put that one on ice
We were intrigued by a headline “Earth’s Most Dangerous Glacier Is Gaining Ice – And Scientists Can’t Explain Why”. And...
30 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Fixing the race
The Washington Post reports that “Solar panels and windmills are the fastest-growing sources of power in the United States, accounting for...
30 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

And if you believe that claim...
As the electric vehicle lack of revolution grinds to a halt without subsidies, we’re told that a Chinese firm has...
23 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Broken but not record
Last week we complained about misuse of “scorched” to describe places that got warm in summer as usual, noting that...
23 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

The public are such fools
Speaking of what everybody they know knows, New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells recently exploited the tragic non-climate-related Texas floods...
23 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Send more ghouls
On the subject of disastrous floods in Texas that claimed well over 100 lives, the first thing we’d like to...
16 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Misattribution science
While we’re on the subject of attribution non-science, we routinely receives messages like “Climate Change Tripled Heat Deaths in European...
16 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Net zero fun
Children of activists generally learn early not to depend on their parents for amusement. Long-ago there were the “red diaper”...
16 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

So about that hot summer...
It is hot in mid-summer in parts of the northern hemisphere. Which is being treated in certain quarters as proof...
09 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Bee ware
In trying to make sense of climate there are all kinds of ways you need to exercise caution about claims...
09 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

The green energy illusion
The failure of the press to do its job is also gruesomely on display with the fabled “green energy transition”....
09 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

AI AI no
A few months back The Economist, once an elegant skeptic in suspenders but now tattooed and backward-hatted, explained “How AI...
02 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Grid expectations
With the Northern Hemisphere scorched by the climate catastrophe people used to welcome under the archaic moniker “summer”, we are...
02 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Speaking of dying from climate change
Normally we dismiss such warnings as the fevered dreams of overheated brains. Overheating from internal conceptual causes, we mean. But...
02 Jul, 2025| OP ED Watch

Bonn chance
It seems so recently that the world was young and alive with promise and we attended COP29 to provide sardonic...
25 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

That old carbon river
It must know something. And in the wacky world of climate, it must be bad, right? Hence when you read...
25 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

And you did it to yourselves
In a talk in Oslo and then a blog post Roger Pielke Jr. asks “What Did We Expect Would Happen?”...
25 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

A weak wind
Two weeks ago we cited Roger Pielke Jr. that hurricane season was off to a quiet start. How quiet? There...
18 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

Arise, ye prisoners of carbonization
Apparently corporations will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. At least so we gather from a piece...
18 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

Signs of hope?
It’s hard to know what to make of MSN’s news aggregator. We long ago conceded that it’s not overseen by...
18 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

Clean green?
It is not fair to judge a movement by its most unreasonable advocates… at least provided that others distance themselves...
11 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

But if it's cheaper...
Sadly few people nowadays find themselves reminded of Canadian music icon Stompin’ Tom Connors. But being right in tune with...
11 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

On settled and unsettled science
Even journalists also know, when the subject is not climate, that science is never settled, that claims that it is...
04 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

Betting on red tape
We understand, from experience and in principle, that if people disagree with us on a big thing, for instance the...
04 Jun, 2025| OP ED Watch

It's all over part 67b
Never mind fighting climate change. Or adapting to it. The Washington Post surveys the cool spring and general lack of...
28 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

Follow the science
A new paper in BioScience, which claims to be “A Forum for Integrating the Life Sciences”, starts calmly by saying...
28 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

Seeking momentum from facts
In the New York Times “Climate Forward” David Wallace-Wells asks “Can we really fight climate change when we’re not scared...
21 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

Speaking of fools
It’s actually remarkable, and instructive, how often, when you scratch a public policy proposal or analysis, contempt for ordinary people...
21 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

The hottest nonsense ever
Matthew Wielicki writes “You’ve probably seen it by now. National Geographic and every major outlet are screaming some version of:...
21 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

Attack of the climate sanity?
While we were in Senegal examples of what looks like a serious turn toward climate sanity across a wide range...
14 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

The sheep look at dots
If ordinary voters are getting you down, like Joe Biden, who just blamed the deplorables’ sexism and racism for the...
14 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

Good money after green
EVs continue to hypnotize everyone… other than buyers. Thus Canary Media hypes an outfit that aims to cash in on...
07 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

A glowing account
If Net Zero enthusiasts are to get anywhere, or at any rate if they are to get anywhere they want...
07 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

Recycling money
One of the significant problems with green energy is the lack of energy. The other is the lack of green....
07 May, 2025| OP ED Watch

Speaking of cancelling the Times
We noted briefly above the reasons Robert Bryce gives for cancelling the New York Times. But shortly after drafting that...
30 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Chasing 150 dragons
While you boring shlubs may be worrying about China’s drive for world domination, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing disarmament...
30 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Peering into peer review
If Americans increasingly distrust the scientific establishment it’s not because the public have straw in their beards. They may, and...
30 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Who put this lump in their stocking?
One reason for thinking the climate alarmist position is crumbling in its moment of apparent triumph is that everything about...
23 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Beam them down, Scotty
It’s always a bit odd to read arguments you don’t agree with and wonder how the author and other readers...
23 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Here we go again, windstorm edition
Supposedly it’s spring, despite various local headlines of the “Arctic air will spill into Ontario with possible 15-25 cm of...
16 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Small world
The New York Times warns us that “The Next Generation of American Scientists Is Losing Faith”. It is of course...
16 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

The confidence game
If climate alarmists want to keep, or regain, the public esteem they enjoyed when Michael Mann was young and litigious,...
16 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Lashing your own back
Although it is easy to despair over the state of democracy, especially if you’ve never lived under tyranny, Robert Bryce...
09 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

We don't care
Apparently “Al Gore is shifting his climate activism abroad.” In response to which many people here will either say good...
09 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

The past is a difficult concept
To a journalist with a hammer: an alert viewer sends us an item from Sky News Australia about melting glaciers...
09 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Oh no, not another one
In a memorable scene in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Marvin the Paranoid Android is offered a whole new...
02 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Precisely approximate
One of the flags of pseudoscience, and not only on climate, is a spurious degree of precision in output claims...
02 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

We may soon be out of business
While climate alarmists are prone to claiming we deniers are venal swine driven by greed, we can’t help noticing that...
02 Apr, 2025| OP ED Watch

Current events
Tired of killing us all by weakening the AMOC, alarmists have turned on the ACC, the “Antarctic Circumpolar Current”. Or...
26 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

Best not to inhale EVs
One major problem with lithium battery fires is that all the toxic smoke may make people forget how good EVs...
26 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

But you said it was an investment
As Canada thrashes about reversing its mad charge toward a non-existent energy transition while plunging boldly on, under its new...
19 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

Yeah yeah winter again
We know you’re tired of it. We’re tired of it. People pretend, and there is a certain majesty in winter...
19 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

Lawfare for thee
For years environmental groups have engaged in fairly explicit “lawfare” to try to get their way, or more often obstruct...
19 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

Was für eine Dunkelflaute
Dunkelflaute is a lovely word that conjures up memes regarding why Germans don’t play Scrabble. But there’s nothing geheimnisvoll about...
12 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

The Turquoise party
If you are deeply dissatisfied with politics, and a surprising number of people are not, at least judging by their...
12 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

Climate in the age of Trump
No, this item is not about Trump’s climate measures and whether they’re brilliant and long overdue or evil and insane....
12 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

Paris shmaris
Recently an alert viewer asked whether it was true that the United States, despite withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, was...
05 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

Jolly decent of you
In what will no doubt come as a relief across the UK, “We are absolutely not saying everyone needs to...
05 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

From the river to the idiocy
Arguably we should no longer be astonished at the lengths to which journalists will go to blame climate change for...
05 Mar, 2025| OP ED Watch

Follow the economics
One of the oddities of climate alarmism is that, despite its mantra of “follow the science”, most of its adherents...
26 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

Oh that natural gas
For years natural gas, mostly aka methane, has been a big-time climate-alarmist villain. Some scary multiple of the potency of...
26 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

But apart from that...
For years we at CDN have been warning that climate alarmism was impaling itself on the horns of a dilemma....
26 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

Sealed with a lack of kiss
Anyone who spends much time in public policy of any sort soon realizes that radicals and revolutionaries tend to share...
19 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

Science settles again
In the spirit of the minister who read the Bible and the New York Times each day so that he’d...
19 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

It still isn't easy being green
For some reason the MSN algorithm recently decided we couldn’t get enough of Climate Cosmos. Which was initially true in...
12 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

The end is nigh... for alarmism
Global warmism really does seem the most powerful force in the public policy galaxy, closing in on the last futile...
12 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

Data versus slogans
The Canadian government puts out an endless barrage of press releases starting with some variant of “Across the country, the...
12 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

Mercury falling
We have mentioned the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in 2022, which injected an enormous amount of...
12 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

Florida flimflam
The explanation from the Climate Adaptation Center that we mentioned last week about all that Florida snow is, paradoxically, so...
05 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

California fireflam
Apparently alarmists don’t want to play the blame game on California’s fires. Oh, they’re happy to when it’s climate change,...
05 Feb, 2025| OP ED Watch

You just realized it now?
In the New York Times “Climate Forward” columnist David Gelles denounces “The dissonance of climate promises at Davos”. OK. Good...
29 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

Or maybe none of it works
Canary Media kicks off the new year with a cheery piece “Lots of demand, too little grid: The state of...
29 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

Captain of a ghost ship
The eyes of the world are currently not fixed on Canada, as so often. But some of the eyes in...
22 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

He did that
Speaking of Glasgow and trendy climate policies that haven’t aged well, and of international man of progress Mark Carney, what...
22 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

And iffn they don't?
Speaking of narcolepsy, “Media representatives are advised that experts from Environment and Climate Change Canada will hold a bilingual technical...
22 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

Not that again
You know what we hate? That thing where you tell Gmail you’ve read an item and it snootily marks it...
15 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

Save the whales... and the media
Despite the ongoing popularity of the “experts say” trope among traditional media, or perhaps because of it, there is a...
15 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

The settled uncertainty
Over at The Atlantic they almost do some good climate journalism in an item by Zoë Schlanger, even though she “covers...
15 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

Greendashing
On the subject of straight talk and hard data, we note that Morgan Stanley just bailed on Mark Carney’s Net-Zero...
08 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

Whitewashing
Various news outlets pass on some propaganda about the end of Canadian winter and totally miss the obvious point. According...
08 Jan, 2025| OP ED Watch

When solar met wind
A powerful wind storm, Darragh, demolished a solar farm in England. But if you close your eyes, click your heels...
18 Dec, 2024| OP ED Watch

Don't get smart
The Telegraph reports that in Britain, “Thousands sent eye-watering bills after switching to smart meters”. Mind you those were mostly...
11 Dec, 2024| OP ED Watch

Scientific bloviation
With the abrupt departure of their woke editor to go birdwatching, we wondered if Scientific Alarmism might get back to...
11 Dec, 2024| OP ED Watch

Geotrendy
It is, indeed, hard to keep up with the latest, greatest disappointment-in-the-making from the unicorn power policy factory. So suddenly,...
04 Dec, 2024| OP ED Watch

Model failure
Dr. Javier Vinós, who recently joined us for our third live webinar whose recorded version you can watch here, has...
04 Dec, 2024| OP ED Watch

Northdolts
Governments across the Western world have been unreasonably enthusiastic about electric vehicles for years. But nowhere more so than Canada,...
27 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

A storm is just a storm, unless...
So there was some bad weather recently, which is normally treated as a terrifying and novel man-made-climate-change-driven affliction. But not...
27 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

The climate disinformation police
In case you were worried that a serious, broad-minded look at climate might somehow erupt, relax. Oxford, which used to...
27 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

Good thing we have all the money
Canada’s Minister of the Environment, Climate Change, Climate Change and Climate Change jetted in to COP29, made some expensive promises...
20 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

Deutschland, Deutschland under Wasser
As we argue above, the intergalactic delegates gathered for COP29 are confronted with their collective inability to do what they...
20 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

Admission of Gavin
Gavin Schmidt, a leading American government climate alarmist who goes by @ClimateOfGavin on X, just made a startling statement in...
20 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

Boom
With respect to Donald Trump, the walking talking orange apocalypse, Reuters “Sustainable Switch” emailed that “the Republican win is unlikely...
13 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

They want you dead
A crucial lesson of history is that ideas have consequences. And another related one, surprisingly often resisted with harmful results,...
13 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

The war on normal
According to some professor of real estate and finance in Pennsylvania, in the New York Times, “Climate Change Should Make...
13 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

When Frankenstein met climate
The New York Times recently offered a cheerful piece on “Changing the DNA of Living Things to Fight Climate Change”....
06 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

Scientific shut up
As we’ve repeatedly complained, the obsession with climate change is sucking all the oxygen, attention and money out of the...
06 Nov, 2024| OP ED Watch

This game is easy
There’s a certain genre of political announcement that specializes in glossing over difficulties and soothing the eye, or ear, with...
30 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

The one percenters
Speaking of practical difficulties, a story in Blacklock’s Reporter brings the grim news that “Barely one percent of road vehicles...
30 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

Look what the wind blew in
The latest alarmist complaint about hurricanes is that the science has become politicized. NBC reports that “Despite the strong information...
23 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

And set like cement
There’s an old jibe about how some people’s minds are like concrete: all mixed up and permanently set. Which we...
23 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

A conservative climate plan
A significant Canadian publication called The Hub is hyping a long dreary series in which a quasi-conservative advocacy group pays...
23 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

What Germany needs is an Energiewende
Among the dismal economies of the old Soviet East Bloc the German “Democratic” Republic stood out for its high productivity...
09 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

Shuffle off to Buffalo Part II
Continuing the tradition of climate journalists seeing things that you or I cannot, in particular a vast migration of people...
09 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

How not to report on climate
Last week we discussed a new reconstruction of atmospheric CO2 and temperature over the last 485 million years that claimed...
09 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

You can't get there from here
Euronews.green tries to be chipper about “Slower planes and contrail coordination: New report lays out five-year plan to cut aviation...
02 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

The nucleus of sanity
In our ongoing quest to explore strange new worlds of climate sanity, we want to seek out new nuclear plants...
02 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

Rubbish-based decision-making
Climate policy and climate science are necessarily joined closely together. But there are good and bad ways of making the...
02 Oct, 2024| OP ED Watch

A sudden fit of sanity?
In our relentless quest for good news at CDN, we’ve been pondering whether in all the ruckus over a “backlash”...
25 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

A radical idea
Jeva Lange at Heatmap noted that according to their own poll the Americans particularly likely to attend meetings on, and...
25 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Climate Science
The latest, greatest exercise in absurd climate-modeling hubris is the frankly preposterous project to create “Digital Twins of the Earth”...
18 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

Well, wot about the workers?
A major British union, the GMB, whose “About” page doesn’t even say what the letters stand for, just issued a...
18 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

Price check
The late great P.J. O’Rourke once wrote, in The Atlantic in April 2002, that: “Beyond a certain point complexity is...
18 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

Is reality tricky?
A Heatmap newsletter warns about an Inflation Reduction Act program which supposedly installed 50,000 solar projects in “Low-Income Communities” yet...
11 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

Cold dead handles
When climate alarmists deny that they’re coming for your gas stove it’s time to padlock it in place. And not...
11 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

A groundswell I tell you
According to a Canary Media email alert the hot new thing is… solar? No. Wind? No. Nuclear? No. Hydrogen? No....
11 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

What you see is not what you get
Today’s question of the week, from Reuters Sustainable Switch (and no, in 2024 they still haven’t figured out how to...
04 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

Shuffle off to Buffalo
Climate alarmists often manage to observe things happening that you and I cannot see at all. A case in point...
04 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

You can't really have it both ways
The New York Times emails “What will we do with all this power?” to tease a David Wallace-Wells column insisting...
04 Sep, 2024| OP ED Watch

The latest old thing
In assessing the supposed dynamic possibilities of new energy sources we’d like to mention that wind is not “new” as...
28 Aug, 2024| OP ED Watch

Quantum rubbish
The obsession with climate change extends all the way from continually imagining worse weather when statistically there’s no sign of...
28 Aug, 2024| OP ED Watch

We don't need no stinking debate
A piece in Yale Climate Connections asks “When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?” When, not...
28 Aug, 2024| OP ED Watch

To someone with a hammer
One effect of climate change is to induce people to regard any odd weather as significant even when weather has...
21 Aug, 2024| OP ED Watch

To someone with a partisan preference
The herd of independent minds has stampeded in on Kamala Harris’s VP pick, including those obsessed with person-made climate change....
21 Aug, 2024| OP ED Watch

And you know that how exactly?
A regrettable aspect of the climate change debate is the way in which people assume we know things we do...
21 Aug, 2024| OP ED Watch

So about those hurricanes...
An important difference between climate science and the normal kind is that in climate science, failed predictions don’t diminish people’s...
31 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

Any century now
On the subject of expecting the unexpected, a recent piece “It’s Later Than You Think: Climate Fueled Extreme Weather, Part...
31 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

Logical slowly
The current state of climate policy discussion furnishes more tentative confirmation of J. Budziszewski’s democracy-sustaining claim that people are logical,...
31 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

If we could walk that way...
A new report from a “Net Zero Advisory Body” warns Canada’s Trudeau administration that they’d better cut the denialism and...
24 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

Ten days in June
So here’s a scary statistic from Canada’s capital. “After 10 consecutive June days with minimum temperature ≥14°C in #Ottawa, the...
24 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

Expect the unexpected
NBC emails about “How California found itself with an unexpected surplus of clean energy that's now going to waste” and...
24 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

Nothing to sea here either
We often hear that sea levels are rising much faster in some places than others, and the rate in the...
17 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

Barely Beryl
The Atlantic “Weekly Planet” piece we cited last week celebrating the deadliness of Hurricane Beryl links to a story saying...
17 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

That sinking feeling
Thanks to several alert viewer/readers who forwarded the New York Times “surprising find by climate researchers” that those famous low-lying...
10 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

Taking climate mountain by wet drought
China has bad weather and, well, you know. The Economist, which actually is having a climate-related meltdown, says “In just...
10 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

A Beryl of monkeys
Before the current hurricane season started on June 1, the news of the future was that it was going to...
10 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

The east is green
In the category of hallucinations by climate change zealots, we have to give some kind of prize to “America is...
03 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

Electric Maybe-land
A recent headline from The Australian reads: “Blackout risks: A nation lost in energy transition”. Oh dear. And what seems...
03 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

If you can wreck it here
One telling case study in how to wreck your economy and feel smug is the state of New York. For...
03 Jul, 2024| OP ED Watch

The heat wave from climate
We told you a few months ago that summer heat was coming and you need to get ready to douse...
26 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

So about those bears
The idiotic New York Times polar bear story referred to above writes off Ursus maritimus yet again without the slightest...
26 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

All charged up
We have repeatedly argued that the fabled green energy transition is non-existent and the EV boom is on a fast...
26 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

On a sticky wicket
Oh joy. Just in time for summer we are offered “A new way to talk about heat”. The New York...
19 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

The no-scenario scenario
One part of the climate debate that is highly unrealistic is… well, there are a lot. But these modeling scenarios...
19 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

Courting disaster
In a number of areas climate activists are trying to get from the courts things they cannot get from voters....
12 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

When ought ain't is
Inherent in climate zealotry is the tendency to see what people think ought to be rather than what they have...
12 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

Net loss
In addition to seeing things that aren’t there, climate zealots often fail to see things that are. And when we...
12 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

Nice work if you can get it
Canary Media chirps that “Vermont is on the cusp of mandating 100% clean electricity by 2035/ The state’s Senate approved...
05 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

On climate you can say just anything
From our bulging “on climate you can say just anything” file, New York Times columnist David Gelles says “Thanks to...
05 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

Call that science?
A correspondent recently sent us a poster “A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science” that we found very interesting because...
05 Jun, 2024| OP ED Watch

Please stay in your seat
No sooner did a freak accident on a Singapore Airlines flight kill a passenger and injure dozens of others, seven...
29 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Bad prediction rising
To no one’s surprise, the usual alarmists were raising the usual alarm about this year’s hurricane season before it even...
29 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Oh that CO2
A viewer recently asked whether it’s really true that climate alarmists claim half of human CO2 is rejected by nature...
22 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Magna Fatuitas
In keeping with the leftist climate “omnicause” that despises the rights of others and common sense as well, two British...
22 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

London gets it
According to Euronews.green “Rising sea levels and climate change mean London’s flood defences are due for an upgrade”. Boo. Rising...
15 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Neither skeptical nor science
There’s a site out there called “Skeptical Science” that is devoted to squashing any and all skepticism about “the science”,...
15 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Stark lunacy
Chris Stark, the former head of Britain’s “quango” Climate Change Committee, just told the Telegraph that: “if you’re a person...
08 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Unless it doesn't
CNN drops the platitude that “it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when El Niño –...
08 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Papering over dissent
A new paper by three figures who may well be familiar to CDN readers presents a remarkably lucid short summary...
08 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Poll deniers
Heatmap chirps “Are Pollsters Getting Climate Change Wrong? Why climate might be a more powerful election issue than it seems.”...
01 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Red-faced planet
One problem with the whole man-made global warming theory is that other planets in our solar system also show signs...
01 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

Earth snooze
Although CDN readers may not be its most enthusiastic celebrants, we should mention that we just had Earth Day back...
01 May, 2024| OP ED Watch

It went to outer space
Another pesky type of commentary on climate, one that has recently pestered us, is people who insist that the physics...
24 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

It went into the ground
Given that reducing the use of life-sustaining energy turns out not to be a very practical or popular plan, there’s...
24 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

No, not that Antarctic ice
When you need a quick serving of climate panic, haul Antarctica out of the icebox, defrost it and serve with...
24 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

Down to two
Last December we noted the existence of a post called “UN climate director” and expressed doubt that anyone outside the...
17 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

We'll all be weathered in our beds
Speaking of venerable publications that have lost their balance on climate, and there are so many to choose from, what...
17 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

Climate purity
In a justly famous TED talk in February 2008 popular and academic psychologist Jonathan Haidt argued that a crucial difference...
17 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

If you're so smart...
The world is full of people telling you how to beat the stock market, make a fortune in real estate...
10 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

The latest climate news from Gaza
People’s ideas about the world seem to correlate in such a way that, for instance, if you know someone’s attitude...
10 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

What is that thing?
An alert reader wrote to ask us: “The word climate is used all the time, (usually as climate change). Presumably...
10 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

Climate change drank my Prosecco
All the food you love will soon be gone due to climate change or, possibly, self-inflicted climate paranoia. According to...
03 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

You mean you expect us to do it?
As the deadlines get ever closer on the green energy transition, companies are discovering that pretending to believe in it...
03 Apr, 2024| OP ED Watch

You've just gotta believe
The New York Times “Climate Forward” tells us triumphantly that “Biden Administration Issues Rules Aimed at Phasing Out Gas Cars/...
27 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Magic mushrooms
A reader alerts us to an article asking “Could homes made of fungi slash emissions from construction?” Yes, someone really...
27 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Causality is a difficult concept
One of the really weird things about the whole debate around global warming, or the monologue as alarmists would have...
27 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Now that you mention it...
In a gung-ho story about how Germany’s failed energy transition is secretly succeeding brilliantly, Clean Energy Wire near the end...
20 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Is your job to be a dolt?
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to be on some sort of mission to confirm everyone’s suspicion that he doesn’t...
20 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Ice wine, and not in a good way
We learn that “The British Columbia government says farmers will get an extra $70 million to replant and strengthen fruit...
20 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

John Kerry is very very disappointed in you
John Kerry is finally stepping down as jet-setting pointless special U.S. presidential envoy on climate, frustrated that humanity in general...
13 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

It's all so simple
On the occasion of his retirement as US Climate Envoy John Kerry explains to the New York Times’ David Wallace-Wells...
13 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

And speaking of China
There are people to whom patriotism seems embarrassing. Including Canada’s Trudeau administration, evidently, working overtime to conceal from the public...
13 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Leafhoppers ate my climate
One rule of climate change journalactiviscience is that anything, no matter how small or tentative, can be reported as proof...
06 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Hot cuisine
It seems the climate is so incredibly fragile that, should it warm slightly, you will no longer get “Norwegian salmon,...
06 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Meet SpongeBob, the climate scientist
A new study says the settled science indicates that warming is happening even faster than thermometers can read and “time’s...
06 Mar, 2024| OP ED Watch

Real real reality
It is not unusual in public policy debates for people to talk past one another. But it seems unusually severe...
28 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

Plan H
As the problems with so-called alternative energy become clearer and more pressing, a new green saviour appears on the horizon:...
28 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

Like whatever man
Speaking of not checking facts or logic, Bloomberg recently ran a column saying, and we are not making it up,...
28 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

My way or the highway
Canada’s Minister of Climate Communism Steven Guilbeault really made a mess of things, even by his standards, by declaring out...
21 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

So about that meat...
The politicians who are promising us an energy transition is accelerating and urging us to let them throw our billions...
21 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

It's called global for a reason
The retreat from logic on climate change continues with a piece in The Atlantic threatening that “A Climate Reckoning Is...
21 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

Free speech is for losers
It’s just a private member’s bill. But a very revealing one. Canadian New Democratic Party MP Charlie Angus, not a...
14 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

The end is nigh/here/out there
Apparently “Massive wildfires exposing millions to toxic smoke, drought shrivelling crops and key waterways, destructive storms supercharged by record ocean...
14 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

EV come EV go
A crucial part of the solution to the supposed climate crisis is supposedly electric vehicles. And to help us all...
14 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

Collision course
Dan McTeague of Canadians for Affordable Energy warns of a “collision course” between the Net Zero obsession of our elites...
07 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

The micro-gardens of climate death
Speaking of the dreaded carbon footprint of farming, no sooner are we told to plant micro-gardens to calm our climate...
07 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

Irish death gas
A recent story in The Irish News berated the government and the people for doing too little on climate with...
07 Feb, 2024| OP ED Watch

All tipping points all the time
According to a Heatmap Daily piece called “The Last Gasp of Winter Sports”, snow is all but done. “A new...
31 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

And they wonder why no one trusts them
The Economist, speaking for Davos Person, conceded that “An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West” but argued editorially...
31 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

Meanwhile in the real world
Because reality is tricky, Robinson Meyer at Heatmap Daily instead invites readers instead “to dream. Envision a future where the...
31 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

Green dreams are made of these
Canadian Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland went to the Davos WEF forum, arguably not a good look,...
24 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

One way to keep warm this winter
On January 12 the Daily Mail wrote an “EXCLUSIVE” that: “Electric double-decker buses will NOT be withdrawn from service after...
24 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

Let's talk fraud
Having praised his work in this week’s first “News Roundup” item, let us repeat here our one big disagreement with...
17 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

Don't they know history?
It’s especially important to understand how arrogant certainty leads people to misinterpret data with fierce conviction because reporting on the...
17 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

Warming faster at the poles
Arctic sea ice has been rebounding rapidly of late. The usual suspects use pseudo-scary language like “ninth lowest in the...
17 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

A new year's resolution
As it is early January, we are all still keeping some of our recent pledges to mend our ways while...
10 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

The ghost of weather stations past
A crucial climate alarmist assumption is that we know the temperatures of the past, at least the recent past, everywhere...
10 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

Another demonstration
As the “energy transition” thunders forward, or staggers, Parker Gallant proposes a real-world experiment of considerable interest. It developed out...
10 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch

10, give or take 10
Robinson Meyer of Heatmap Daily intoned last week that: “I want to draw your attention to a particularly interesting report...
20 Dec, 2023| OP ED Watch

In the land of make-believe
The Japan Times emails us cheerfully about “How simple steps can help alleviate climate anxiety/ From gardening to flood-proofing your...
20 Dec, 2023| OP ED Watch

The old bury gas in dirt trick
There’s a lot of interest in carbon capture and storage nowadays. And of course there is a certain logic to...
13 Dec, 2023| OP ED Watch

Climate Darwin award
The CBC, Canada’s state broadcaster ran a glowing self-profile by a guy who “got a vasectomy due to climate grief”....
13 Dec, 2023| OP ED Watch

We are all going to have died
A cri de cringe from the apparently underemployed “World Health Organisation’s Regional Director for Europe” Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge...
13 Dec, 2023| OP ED Watch

Just more weather
Since 2023 was the hottest year ever and there’s more where it came from as we’re into the era of...
06 Dec, 2023| OP ED Watch

But if it's working so well...
Canary Media laments that “California’s rooftop solar policy is killing its rooftop solar industry”. Which seems odd since it would...
06 Dec, 2023| OP ED Watch

Or you could just hallucinate it
If all this talk of real-world engineering challenges is getting you down, and you’re just not happy with things as...
06 Dec, 2023| OP ED Watch

Talking to the arbres
We’re told by Euronews.green “How a ‘mosaic forest’ is helping France adapt to rapid climate change”. And you might be...
29 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

Down with housing
The Verge gives us the views of “Carlos Martín, the project director for the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint...
29 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

Limestone cowboys
The determination of climate alarmists to redesign the environment and get it right for a change is undented by various...
22 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

The future is now, or something
Among the great many unexamined assumptions made by people who claim to be “following the science” on climate, a crucial...
22 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

What goes around
A story from Euronews hails various government incentives to force people to take public transit instead of their wretched private...
22 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

We're history
At CDN we’re always happy to see people trying to look at the historical record. But not always with the...
15 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

Fish story
Among the genuine environmental problems getting shoved aside as the money, and attention, increasingly focus on climate change, a major...
15 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

Polls polls and more polls
Canada’s Angus Reid Institute, part pollster and part pressure group, claims in a series on “Canada and the Culture Wars”...
08 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

Et tu, EV?
The general collapse of the whole alarmist project includes, of course, the increasingly desperate back-peddling of politicians as their vision...
08 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

There's that dang settled science again
According to James Hansen you are a heatstroke-addled fool. Thank you. Thank you very much. As the Guardian shrills, “Global...
08 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

When satire writes itself
We are supposed to believe that it would be incredibly easy to replace reliable, affordable fossil fuels with “renewables” that...
01 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

It never used to happen
Something called “The i”, which is “a British national newspaper published in London by Daily Mail and General Trust” whose...
01 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

Busted
Inside Climate News warns that “Experts Warn of ‘Denialism Comeback’ Ahead of November’s Global Climate Talks”. Apparently our sinister plot...
01 Nov, 2023| OP ED Watch

In the land of make-believe
Reuters “Sustainable Switch” emails that “Activists ramp up protests against fossil fuels”. How do they know? Who counts the number,...
25 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

More on geoengineering
We talked last week about a proposal to refreeze the poles, which last we checked are already frozen. But the...
25 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

But see I have this hammer...
A piece from the Religion News Service complained of unbelief. But not in God or spirits. In almighty climate change....
25 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

Et tu, calor?
Over at Net Zero Watch David Whitehouse gives an interesting look at some new research on the dreaded melting of...
18 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

Get your markers ready
Time to play some climate buzzword bingo. Has anyone got “according to a new study” on their card? Oh. You...
18 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

Hidden in plain sight
Heatmap reports an experiment that reveals the evil bigotry structurally incorporated in American life. It appears that poor non-whites live...
18 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

It really bugs them
One revealing recurring thing about climate alarmism is their obsession with making us eat bugs. It can’t be helping them...
11 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

Nothing to do with climate change
The Canadian Press breathes a huge sigh of relief that “‘Miracle’ water year in California: Rain, snow put state’s reservoirs...
11 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

But it was
In case you missed it, September was the end of the world or very nearly. “September sizzled to records and...
11 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

Chump summit
As if there weren’t already enough climate summits, the New York Times reports that the UN hosted yet another one,...
04 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

The climate racket
There were cheers and tears when Coco Gauff, just 19, won the U.S. Open women’s tennis title at Arthur Ashe...
04 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

More fantasies up in smoke
A piece from Reuters complains that “Asia’s coal sector has gone from thinking they are in terminal decline as the...
04 Oct, 2023| OP ED Watch

The original strike for climate
National Geographic reports that climate change can be very hard on young people. And you may be thinking yes, there’s...
27 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

Collect all nine and win a prize
In the game of alarmist whack-a-mole the latest and greatest sudden certainty is that, as Reuters “Sustainable Switch” emailed, “Earth’s...
27 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

The fire and brimstone snoozefest
Incredibly, there was just yet another UN climate summit. At which its Secretary-General, the ever-shrill António Guterres of boiling oceans...
27 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

20 equals 5
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer says the vast subsidies hurled at EV-battery makers by politicians who think they know all about...
20 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

Prove it
Periodically someone sends us a paper, a video or just some reflections to the effect that “Greenhouse-warming theory has never...
20 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

Here now, and coming soon
The question of when exactly the serious negative effects of man-made climate change hit, are hitting, will hit or will...
20 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

Soaking Man
Cory Doctorow in the New York Times “Opinion Today” swooped on the chaos at the aggressively pagan “Burning Man” party/art...
13 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

Do not mention the sun
As the recent kerfuffle over Patrick T. Brown’s mea culpa in getting published in Nature shows, there is a preferred...
13 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

Relax, we are in the best of hands
The Manhattan Contrarian is at it again, asserting that “The Elites Directing The Energy Transition Really Have No Idea What...
13 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

Science deniers
We were alerted to a weird kerfuffle over a paper proposing to psychoanalyze climate skeptics as dangerous lunatics that appeared,...
06 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

How would you tell?
This just in: “Why do floods follow drought? Scientists show climate change is fuelling more ‘sudden shifts’”. Which is problematic...
06 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

The penguins get it
That perennial alarmist favourite, the end of Antarctica as we know it, is back. As in “UK homes could be...
06 Sep, 2023| OP ED Watch

Scorching, scorching, gone
A particularly comic example of seeing what you expect to see on climate came from (again) Britain’s GB News courtesy...
30 Aug, 2023| OP ED Watch

So about that CO2
One curious thing about climate alarmism is how uncurious the people who are forever hammering on about “the science” are...
30 Aug, 2023| OP ED Watch

As the Earth boils
The growing disconnect between climate alarmist rhetoric and real people’s experience seems to be leading to a doubling down rather...
23 Aug, 2023| OP ED Watch

A planlike object
The Canadian government has produced yet another thingy that claims to be a plan to reach some virtuous climate goal....
23 Aug, 2023| OP ED Watch

So about that underwater volcano
On climate, as on many contemporary policy issues, there is a tendency for people on both sides to dig in,...
23 Aug, 2023| OP ED Watch

But if the science is settled...
From the “settled science” file: former BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin (studied English at Cambridge) writes in the Guardian under...
02 Aug, 2023| OP ED Watch

Kennedy v Turk
In an embarrassing scene that further underlines the curious mix of certainty and vagueness of climate alarmist policy-makers, Senator John...
02 Aug, 2023| OP ED Watch

So about those Chinese EVs
All those ghost towns in China now have ghost EVs for residents to drive around in. As the Hindustan Times...
26 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

This time we fix Earth for real
If you have a packet of Tums or Rolaids or something and you are at the seashore, it seems you...
19 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

All a-twitter
The “denier” label now gets applied to anyone who questions not only whether climate change is a thing, but whether...
19 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

Go jump in the lake
The herd of independent minds seem especially keen to declare Crawford Lake, a small freshwater body near Milton, Ontario, just...
19 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

Oh ship
Boiling oceans are a perennial alarmist favourite, like the bit where all climate news is bad. And so we wanted...
12 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

Jusssst trusssst us
People increasingly don’t trust official institutions. Or rather, normal people don’t, now that the “Question authority” views of 1960s-era academia...
12 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

Independent experts say...
The Ottawa Sun writes of “an independent climate change research organization” called the Canadian Climate Institute that, by its own...
12 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

It's always hot somewhere
The eyes of alarmist media are on Texas right now because it is having, of all things, hot weather in...
05 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

Other people's money
Mark Carney is back. No sooner did private firms begin fleeing from his GFANZ (Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero)...
05 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

Fire burn and ocean bubble
Another major item in the alarmist arsenal lately has been boiling oceans. OK, not lately. They can’t get enough of...
05 Jul, 2023| OP ED Watch

Alice in Climateland
National Geographic attempts to explain “Why we’ll begin naming heat waves” in an email that links to a story “GET...
28 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Time to COP a plea
The next UN gabfest, COP28, is scheduled for November 30 to December 12, 2023 in the United Arab Emirates because...
28 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Square circular economics
One major red flag in any reform movement is if they try to reinvent economics without knowing what it said...
28 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Unprecedented effrontery
In hammering on about supposedly unprecedented conditions the BBC puts its foot in it, after offering more of those charts...
21 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Insuring against success
The New York Times claims that “Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable”: “This month, the largest homeowner insurance...
21 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Climate change not for the birds
It is difficult not to feel a twinge of regret combined with relief at the demise of the huge, flightless...
14 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

A Titanic policy
As we’ve noted, some of the zealots trying to force a total change in lifestyle and mindset dislike carbon capture...
14 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Climate farcing
Climate Home News reports angrily that an industry-led deforestation project in Indonesia that had wound down in 2014 just got...
14 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Get away from my pension
Another place where the climate scare is starting to scare people, just not in the intended way, is when it...
07 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Following the science round and round
Steve Milloy drew our attention to a 2015 posting by the all-in-on-man-made-climate-change National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration asking why global...
07 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Blast, it's summer
Part of the effect, if not the intent, of climate alarmism has been to make people nervous wrecks. Including particularly,...
07 Jun, 2023| OP ED Watch

Gridlock
Public policy debates can seem like mud-wrestling: dirty, degrading and with no one able to get a grip. But as...
31 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

They mean it
In a profile in semi-courage, Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe says he’d love to reach Net Zero pronto. But alas, there’s...
31 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

Charles Darwin, call your office
According to CTV News in Vancouver, Canada, climate change has stopped evolution from working. They didn’t phrase it that way,...
24 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

Pouring green Kool Aid into your tank
The Manhattan Contrarian accuses the American automobile industry in particular of being in Jonestown, a reference he takes time to...
24 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

It's coming for your coffee
According to the New York Times’ “Climate Forward,” poor people in Africa are growing the toughest and most ecological coffee...
17 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

We're glad you asked
Another alert viewer asks “How long does a wind turbine or solar panel have to run before it makes up...
17 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

Go woke, go broke?
It seems gradually to be dawning on people, in a world in which you literally cannot give away Bud Light...
17 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

The last thing we want is a solution
Canary Media concedes, in an email headed “Carbon capture gets its day” that “The world isn’t cutting emissions fast enough...
10 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

Experts say, Indian edition
Euronews.green has some advice from rich white people for poor brown people somewhere else, in keeping with our “Eco-Colonialism“ video....
10 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

Weather modification, Mexican edition
No, contrails are not mind control. And no, the world’s governments are not secretly changing the weather in some vast...
10 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

The dusking of the Age of Aquarius
It starts small. Possibly a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. You admit minor doubts about some aspect of...
03 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

Scientific snow job
After years of laments about the lack of snowpack in the American west due to global heating we now hear...
03 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

The problem of lack of knowledge
Last week we discussed the problematic reality that the Canadian government actually has no idea where greenhouse gas emissions are...
03 May, 2023| OP ED Watch

Awkward way to break the ice
Courtesy of Tony Heller we want to pass along a very good way not to start a conversation at COP28...
26 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

Capitalism ate my health care
We try. Really we do. We try to keep people from becoming paranoid about the WEF, COVID and some vast...
26 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

And Socrates thought he knew nothing
This question of how people know things, or why they think they know them, deserves careful attention and not just...
26 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

Climate air heads
Last week it was more home runs due to climate heating. Inconveniently, Roger Pielke Jr. noted that home runs have...
19 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

It's going to have been hot
Oh no. “El Niño is forecast to return in 2023. Here’s what it means for extreme weather and global warming”...
19 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

We'll pass... pass... pass...
Recently we were given an invitation to jump on the climate panic bandwagon: “As urgency around the climate change response...
19 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

Ugh, spring, we're doomed
In a careless moment The New York Times’ “The Morning” urged readers to “Bring these books to the park on...
05 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

How to do climate 'science' journalism
We can’t help but notice the way in which formerly reasonably sober popular journals have become totally committed to one...
05 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

It matters what you believe
California’s weather woes continue. Which is not surprising if you know that the Golden State has had extreme weather as...
05 Apr, 2023| OP ED Watch

How 'climate science' is done
In a remarkable clip from PBS “News Hour” about the failure to stay south of the unscientific 1.5°C threshold, the...
29 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

You are not reading this item
In case you believe that you are reading a newsletter casting doubt on the existence of an urgent man-made climate...
29 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

True grid
One thing that is increasingly getting debated for some reason is just how practical the glorious vision of a totally...
29 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

It never rains in climate California
If you get your science from celebrities, then you will know that the drought in California is man-made and will...
22 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

This time we mean it
UN Secretary-General António Guterres bludgeons us with his paraphrase of the conclusion of yet another UN report on the climate...
22 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

OK now you've gone too far
In a perilous confrontation over the Black Sea, two Russian SU-27 combat aircraft harassed and ultimately downed an American drone...
22 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

Stop them if you've heard it before
“Stop!” shouts Terry Corcoran in the Financial Post, saying all the “green economy” hype basically repeats the “Broken Window Fallacy”...
15 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

The green magic spell
What is it about environmentalism that suspends people’s powers of rational judgement? It’s a kind of talisman imbuing your cause,...
15 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

Comrade Geoengineerov to the rescue
The people convinced we never had bad weather before are not resting on their lack of laurels over their failure...
15 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

Nooooo, not Rudolph
It would be easy to make fun of Greta Thunberg for joining a protest against a wind farm that might...
08 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

Maybe they were just smarter than us
Nature shares the astonishing discovery that “Like retirees who flock to the Costa del Sol, ancient European hunter-gatherers sought out...
08 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

The problem with cheap power is the cost
Frustrating as the fog of error can be, swirling thickly across the debatescape in apparently endless quantities, the hard outlines...
08 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

How a fact check works
At CDN we are feeling very chuffed because we were just “fact-checked” by a major legacy media outfit. As Oscar...
01 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

More money than brains
Everybody knows, or once knew, about the poor little rich kid whose family’s affluence spoiled them despite their parents’ best...
01 Mar, 2023| OP ED Watch

Save the whales
When Patrick Moore says it, people listen. Or at least they ought to. He’s the guy in the most famous...
22 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

Nothing beats panic
Despite a long history of climate policies costing far more than planned and accomplishing precisely nothing, the option of making...
22 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

But if warming is bad...
One way to raise awareness of the looming catastrophe caused by the greenhouse effect and global warming caused by fossil...
22 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

Such a deal we have for you
Over in the Greenworld alternative reality simulation, the energy transition continues and even accelerates. The Atlantic’s “Weekly Planet” chortles that...
15 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

Yeah, we looked
As we predicted back on August 17 of last year, delirious claims that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act meant the US...
15 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

You thought we meant it?
As objects in calendar prove closer than they seemed, including those relating to once-trendy but far-away climate targets, it seems...
15 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

Now they tell us
It’s funny how climate certainties move about without losing any of their certainty. For instance the figure of 1.5°C as...
08 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

Transition to we know not what
One thing about climate alarmists and green revolutionaries: they don’t discourage easily. Canada’s government stumbles from scandal to fiscal mishap...
08 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

It's over, we won, now we fight
New York Times marquee climate columnist David Wallace-Wells asked on Jan. 18 “Is Peak Climate Alarmism Behind Us?” What? Are...
01 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

Blame Brexit, that's the ticket
Just as some people are still blasting out Tweets about how much they dislike Donald Trump who caused everything bad,...
01 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch

Governing is Ardern she thought
One politician who seems to have become exhausted by their efforts to remake the world through soothingly inspiring rhetoric is...
25 Jan, 2023| OP ED Watch

No trees in Davos
As someone recently complained about the Gnomes of Davos in their World Economic Forum: “What strikes me most about the...
25 Jan, 2023| OP ED Watch

Net minus
In her new pro-tree-planting video, Greta Thunberg says “To survive, we need to stop burning fossil fuels, but this alone...
25 Jan, 2023| OP ED Watch

If only it were that easy
The usual suspects continue to hype the usual green technologies in the usual way. But from Australia we learn that...
18 Jan, 2023| OP ED Watch

Trees schmees
One of the unsettled questions among climate alarmists is whether solving global warming will be an easy, pleasant glide into...
11 Jan, 2023| OP ED Watch

No sacrifice is too large
After decades of being told that climate change can be solved with a few small lifestyle changes you might be...
21 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

Can't even give it away
The fate of western economies is in the hands of politicians skilled at promising a veritable New Jerusalem of environmentally...
21 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

By the way we might all be wrong
It’s remarkable to read that a new study suggests that some, or perhaps most, of any warming that has happened...
21 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

Rearguard
Now it’s the world’s second-largest asset manager Vanguard bailing on Mark Carney’s GFANZ “Net Zero Asset Managers” initiative, out of...
14 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

Greenwashing, emphasis on green
At CDN we are not big believers in conspiracy theories. Mostly when people say and do stuff you disagree with...
14 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

The elephant in the Arctic
Where politics has not contaminated it, the true spirit of science remains: the joy of discovery and the thrill of...
14 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

Now that I'm in power laws matter
Oh, that’s convenient. Canada’s scofflaw Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault, who the New York Times correctly says was once “nicknamed ‘Green...
07 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

What goes around...
Perhaps offering fawning coverage of activists vandalizing masterpieces for Planet Earth wasn’t such a bright idea after all. Cara Buckley,...
07 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

It's not April 1st but...
Judith Curry may have fallen for a prank tweet in which another climate scientist, Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M, wrote...
07 Dec, 2022| OP ED Watch

Climate hypocrite of the week
We could not have chosen an appropriate winner while COP27 was going on given the staggering number of people flying...
30 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

Somewhere over the rainbow
According to Genesis 9:13-15, God sent the rainbow to promise that no matter how wicked human beings got in future,...
30 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

Pop goes the lawsuit
When someone from a small country becomes famous it brings a warm glow back home. For instance we note (being...
30 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

Meanwhile back on the real Earth
If you’re looking for a real climate crisis, forget Sharm el-Sheik and look at the damage climate change policy is...
23 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

Also not a climate scientist
As COP27’s death agonies stretched out, the Norwegian minister of Climate and the Environment apparently decided he might as well...
23 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

What not to read
If you go back and look at old stories on COP27, which we do not recommend unless your idea of...
23 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

I'm not a climate scientist but...
A pseudo-scary headline from Global News tells us “Climate change could hit Canada’s GDP by 6% over long term, new...
16 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

EVs are a blast
We realize the immolation of the Hindenburg didn’t prove Zeppelins were always and everywhere a bad idea. Nor is it...
16 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

Can you say Meghalayan?
There are so many geological periods it’s hard to keep track even of ones that do exist let alone invented...
16 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

Stripes across my planet
There’s a famous climate graphic, available on all kinds of merch from shirts to mugs to, yes, a COVID mask,...
09 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

A sardonic cheer for Greta
OK, we take it back. We said something nice about Greta Thunberg and she made us regret it pronto. Especially...
09 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

And when the glacier goes, you go
From the we-are-all-going-to-die climate file, always something new. In this case a warning from the Guardian that “Next pandemic may...
02 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

Media bias smoked out
In a singularly brazen piece of COP27-warmup alarmist fearmongering, NBC blared on Oct. 26 that “Greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere...
02 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

Battling models
In response to our items noting the debacle of a push for alternative energy from Germany to California, some viewers...
02 Nov, 2022| OP ED Watch

A new theory of budgeting
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, aka Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, Rhodes Scholar graduate of Harvard and Oxford where incredibly he...
26 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

The mysterious thing worse than warming
National Geographic recently ran a headline “The freakish winter that turned Europe into a wasteland” which referred to a story...
26 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

Another cheer for Greta
At CDN we find schoolchildren advising adults on physics, economics or public policy a sorry sight. And we also regard...
19 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

And a half-cheer for Freeland
While we’re struggling to be generous we should also note that Canada’s Deputy PM and public intellectual Chrystia Freeland just...
19 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

Moooving right along
The process whereby public debate mills around in apparently immobile incivility, then suddenly stampedes in a dramatically different direction, is...
19 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

Proof positive of... nothing
Back on September 20th NBC News provided dramatic proof of breakdown. “‘No, not again!’ In Mexico, 3 powerful earthquakes struck...
12 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

Hoping it will eat you last
If something is scarce and its price rises, and you have blocked entrepreneurs from adding more supply, the best course...
12 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

Sorry about your islands
The UN just said Australia owed compensation to some inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands because it didn’t stop global...
12 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

Now is no time for quitting
In keeping with Oscar Wilde’s dictum that “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to...
05 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

Was that it?
Three weeks ago Canary Media gushed at us in an email “Are you ready for Climate Week NYC?” Or we...
05 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

Long live the King, provided...
The accession of Charles III to the throne of Great Britain, Canada and 13 other places brought the usual ill-tempered...
05 Oct, 2022| OP ED Watch

We just fiddle this dial here and...
Incredibly, the notion is back that the solution to “climate change” is to blast the stratosphere with chemicals designed to...
28 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

Must we say it again?
There are some things that need to be repeated over and over again in the climate debate, including one that...
28 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

The time travel crisis
One of the profoundly anti-scientific aspects of climate alarmists is the way they play fast and loose with the timing...
28 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

They figure you haven't suffered enough
Last week we noted an IRPP puff piece on renewable energy that breezed dogmatically past the extremely formidable engineering and...
21 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

Welcome to Oil U
From the alarmist conspiracy theory factory yet another plot is constructed, buried, unearthed and waved about triumphantly. A publication called...
21 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

When in doubt
One of the profoundly anti-scientific aspects of climate alarmism is the way it throws everything into the warming sink. For...
21 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

And this time last year...
A perceptive reader suggests to us that instead of colouring 26°C charred red on weather maps that used to show...
14 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

A load of foreign fertilizer
In all their frenetic passing of this bill, undoing of that one, and authorizing of regulations on an industrial scale,...
14 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

Bubble, meet pin
People whose lives are spent in the alarmist bubble now express such bewilderment when they encounter someone with even the...
14 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

There might be a more obvious explanation
Canada’s rote-woke PM recently attributed incidents of rising incivility in Canadian politics to “the pandemic, increasing anxiety because of climate...
07 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

What a big footprint you have
Among the things people do not generally know about energy, because it is not the sort of thing that has...
07 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

Then they came for the lawn
In today’s polarized world, it is important to note, everyone who disagrees with us is an evil moron and everyone...
07 Sep, 2022| OP ED Watch

It's working, really
When people say things you don’t agree with and do things you don’t agree with they probably think things you...
31 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

It's... it's... impossible
As the pseudo-science of attribution studies makes giant strides in the world of journalism, Canary Media alerts us that “New...
31 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

Are you trying to fuel paranoia?
As our regular readers and viewers know, we do not believe in conspiracy theories. And yes, some call us “naïve”...
31 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

We're talking about people
Concepts like “efficiency” often get a bad rap as Scrooge-like obsessions when people’s lives and happiness are at stake. But...
24 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

What's up, doc? Trees in flames?
An alert reader sends us the information that the Ontario Medical Association just proclaimed that “Doctors are trained to evaluate...
24 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

Philly turns to cheese steak as...
On August 4 NBC warned that “73 million people under heat alerts as high temperatures expand into Northeast/ Record highs...
24 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

Saved by the bill
And another thing. We went away for two lousy weeks (not that the vacation was lousy) and West Virginia Senator...
17 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

Out of gas
The story of Canada’s decision to allow the return of repaired turbines to Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline seems to have...
17 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

Where the bodies aren't buried
In the climate porn category you can include NBC’s “More human remains have been found at drought-stricken Lake Mead National...
17 Aug, 2022| OP ED Watch

Speaking of plans
In the United States the failure of President Biden’s climate legislation has led Democrats to an appreciation of untrammeled executive...
27 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

So you're cool with adaptation?
Moving forward on the climate justice front, the New York Times’ “Climate Forward” complains that air conditioners are “a prime...
27 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

CDN by the lake
CDN will be on vacation for the next couple of weeks, with our Wednesday Wakeup newsletter reappearing on August 17....
27 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

Vox populi
People generally like to claim that people are on their side. There are exceptions, like the Athenian statesman Phocion who,...
20 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

The debate is closed
A distinctly unhelpful rhetorical device is insisting that some important public debate is over, that your side has won and...
20 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

Oh that China
Another odd thing about the climate debate, among many, is that very often the scale of a proposed response seems...
20 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

They already did
Someone recently tweeted about the potential benefits of “Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance” as an investment tool, saying “Somebody should...
13 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

Sudden climate change
It was dramatic. One might even say unprecedented. Temperatures changed far more rapidly than the ecosystem could adapt to, in...
13 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

The plans of Cairo
In the heyday of newspapers there were certain stereotypical headlines notorious among journalists for their capacity to repel readers. High...
13 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

Callous dolts on parade
So many silly things are said about climate that it is hard to keep up. But we do have to...
06 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

What do they really think?
One thing that frustrates climate alarmists is that polls routinely show overwhelming support for “action” on global warming. But nothing...
06 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

That 70s show
The state of policymaking nowadays is so bad that The Economist recently said the plan to keep the lights on...
06 Jul, 2022| OP ED Watch

What we need is a climate movement
Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, who waves a rainbow flag from “Unceded Wabanaki lands”, insists to ward off climate doomism that “for...
29 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

Of rising seas and cities
As our “CDN by the Sea” tour has shown, the notion of relentless, even accelerating sea level rise due to...
29 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

The not so great green fleet
It’s not just central banks that have decided fighting climate change is more pressing than what they’re supposed to be...
22 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

The downside of doomism
It’s not all bad news. Really it’s not. Lately we’ve been highlighting some outbursts of climate sanity from unlikely places...
22 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

It's for the greater good
While we are sometimes tempted to exclaim “O tempora O mores” to see who salutes, we do concede that hypocrisy...
22 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

If only it were mere hypocrisy
In the Financial Post William Watson goes looking for Canada’s leading climate villain. What callous wretch among us, he asks,...
15 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

The silence of the trees
Trees are enjoying something of a vogue among climate alarmists. As we’ve noted recently, they’re supposedly all dying. For instance...
15 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

We sense a pattern
One curious feature of climate alarmism, we have noted with a mix of detached interest and personal engagement, is that...
15 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

Or you can just eat it
Among the less revolting things the people living high off the hog at Davos want the rest of us to...
08 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

Zap, you're heat pumped
It’s remarkable how many people involved in public policy discussions generally, and definitely including climate, seem unsure of the answer...
08 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

More evidence of things not seen
NOAA forecasts a long, hot summer in the United States. As Grist (slogan: “Climate. Justice. Solutions.”) put it, “Summer forecast:...
08 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

What is to be done?
Climate alarmists can’t seem to decide whether to glide smoothly to a high-tech green paradise, smash everything and start over...
01 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

We will
The establishment environmental movement gazes into its sweaty navel and asks “Is it OK to accept money from fossil fuel...
01 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

Bad on you, mate
Australians have just entrusted power to a party and a Prime Minister pledged to take dramatic action on climate change....
01 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

You musk be joking
ESG or “Environmental, social, and corporate governance” is, to put the matter bluntly, a device for bullying companies into putting...
25 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

Lots of practice
While sanity threatens the worlds of business and academia, government remains safely insulated. Former Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, now at...
25 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

Weather or not
Periodically it is helpful to step back from the details and ask what it’s all about. Thus sometimes we give...
25 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

And a plague of locusts too
Recently we mocked a new study claiming “warmer weather will unleash plagues as well as famines and the smiting of...
18 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

What if they died?
In the wacky world of climate alarmism, you just can’t win. Every effect of it is bad, every plan to...
18 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

Addled eggs
We hope these eggs haven’t gone bad in the couple of months we’ve been sitting on them. But a fairly...
11 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

How climate change kills crops
Another persistent piece of odd reasoning about global warming is that although world food production has been soaring for decades,...
11 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

We are all going to die, part 44
Still chasing the alarmist high dragon, NBC shrieks that “Ocean life projected to die off in mass extinction if emissions...
11 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

Charred models
At some point the fact that climate models are reliably unreliable should make discussions of exactly what’s wrong with them...
04 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

We are all going to die, part 43
A new study says that warmer weather will unleash plagues as well as famines and the smiting of borders with...
04 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

The hard part of making predictions
There’s currently a heat wave in the Indian subcontinent. Which if you’ve ever been there might strike you as old...
04 May, 2022| OP ED Watch

Out of the mouths of Ubers
In an energy industry publication called EnergyNow.ca, writer Geoffrey Cann scoffs that “An Uber driver in Calgary recently confided that...
27 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

You can't just turn down the sun?
While we are already indebted to Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic for emphasizing the climate drawbacks of nuclear war, we...
27 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

Oh those plants
Before believing those computer models about the coming apocalypse, or some strange possible drawback to massive arrogant geoengineering, we want...
27 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

Seeing the forest for the trees
In keeping with the new messaging that there’s a hideous climate crisis we can easily fix if we act now,...
20 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

Yes, that Little Ice Age
Recently marquee Canadian columnist Terence Corcoran was subjected to the following thoughtful critique: “The climate change lying, denying and obfuscating...
20 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

Will it eat you last?
Many companies in Canada and elsewhere, including energy companies, seem to think that they can meet climate alarmists half-way. Or...
20 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

Just what we need
We were a bit surprised to hear, in the midst of the thunderous sound of foreheads hitting desks as people...
13 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

A bracing breeze on wind
Matt Ridley in the Daily Mail wails that “the way wind power has managed to get politicians and others to...
13 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

All this and CO2
If you wish to bring a civil discussion on climate to an abrupt halt, there’s a method even quicker and...
13 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

In praise of ineffectual government
In the Financial Post William Watson surveys the Canadian government’s dismal record of failed climate pledges and delivers the verdict...
06 Apr, 2022| OP ED Watch

Mere security
As the Ukraine War drags on, bogs down, threatens to escalate and causes suffering and death as well as anxiety,...
30 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

Climate leadership
Many people think it is sensible to take cautious steps against man-made global warming. It’s not that they think there’s...
30 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

A greenhouse gas
Don’t take our word for it that the people making policy are neither as smart as they claim nor as...
30 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

So does Canada get serious?
A number of people have made the in our view frankly obvious point that unless and until the world stops...
23 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

This won't hurt a bit
The French for “air conditioning” is “climatisation”. But the real goal, understandably, is more or less the reverse. We go...
23 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

Is it wet or dry down here?
Another story that got pushed to the margins by the Ukraine crisis was the devastating droughts and related wildfires in...
23 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

The end of what?
If you’re tired of the end of winter, you’re not alone. Where we live it seems to be stretching out...
16 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

Hairy elephants to the rescue
If you wish to pry a great wudge of someone else’s cash loose, especially from a government, we strongly recommend...
16 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

Try it anyway
A piece in the Sydney Morning Herald argues that tax cuts for young people will not be popular because they...
09 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

All bad all the time
This just in: a fairly new paper in Environmental Research finds that fossil fuels are bad. Grant cheque please. Oh....
09 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

Don't just sit there, you dolts
With the IPCC’s latest report and three decades of last-chance warnings clogging the recycling bins, why’s everyone still just sitting...
09 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

How to think about thinking
We told you so. And yes, we know nobody likes a smart-aleck. But nobody likes us anyway, because our job...
02 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

It's hard to look away
Obviously Ukraine is very much on our minds, as an energy policy issue as well as a direct strategic threat...
02 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

Not for sale, but...
Last week we mentioned the extraordinary announcement by AP that it was taking a large sum of money to skew...
02 Mar, 2022| OP ED Watch

Sold to the highest bidder
In an extraordinary and extraordinarily blithe announcement, the Associated Press admits it will take money from the Rockefeller Foundation and...
23 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

Notes from a ravaged continent
Guess what? Discover magazine has discovered Antarctica melted again. It’s all over but the drowning: “Gigantic Expanse of Sea Ice...
23 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

Strangely unconcerned about heat
We have to laugh, because an Earnscliffe Strategy Group report for Environment and Climate Change Canada delivered September 10, 2021...
23 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

Methane in the dock
Late last fall we warned that alarmists in search of a return to that first blissful high had started turning...
16 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

The lack of fire next time
The Economist recently emailed us a chance to “Make sense of the climate-change crisis”. To which we reacted that it...
16 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

The ice cracks
No, not Thwaites again. At least not this week. Rather, in the spirit of seeking harmony rather than assuming the...
16 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

Slackers of the world, unite
Speaking of chasing dragons, never mind the massive revolt Extinction Rebellion believes it will create in Britain on April 1,...
09 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

Why oh why won't you look up?
In the Hill Times a “news” story lamented that “one in four respondents ‘still do not accept that climate change...
09 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

We finally figured out the answer
Reuters reports that the UN Secretary General recently demanded we crank global governance up to 11, since evidently whatever that...
09 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

The gas stoves of death
If you’re one of those smart people who prefers a gas stove to an electric stove for the instant response,...
02 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

Taxonomy without representation
The Economist, whose raison d’être seems to be to couch radical ideas in sober language, has found the problem with...
02 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

Nothing to CO2 here
Here’s a strange one. Question the link between manmade CO2 and global warming and nearly everyone rushes to shoosh you,...
02 Feb, 2022| OP ED Watch

Hypocritist year ever
Yes, folks, 2022 seems to be a winner already. Consider British climate activist Angela Terry who did a TV interview denouncing people...
26 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

You failed economics, didn't you?
Apparently Greenpeace wants to buy a coal mine. But no, they’re not angling for hypocrite of the week. Just dunce....
26 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

We're all going to die... laughing
The British Met Office, whose day job of short-term weather forecasting isn’t going well partly because they keep predicting the...
26 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

This year in climate disaster
As we noted last week, it’s time for the year-end “this time for sure” climate breakdown roundups. And sure enough...
19 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

Your proposal is acceptable
Three famous climate scientists threaten to stop doing research on climate until we admit no more is needed. It’s a...
19 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

So about that stable climate
A critical if sotto voce aspect of the climate debate is whether, if the weather is currently turbulent, it indicates...
19 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

Don't look, or listen, up
In the Guardian Peter Kalmus of NASA declares that “The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a...
12 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

Believing is seeing
Michael Mann says “I have spent several months in Australia in 2019 and that really changed things for me…. there’s...
12 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

A Clockwork Green
The alarmists are chronically frustrated that despite being obviously right and experts and virtuous and all, they’re having so much...
12 Jan, 2022| OP ED Watch

Nothing it can't do
Prices are starting to rise, which most sensible observers attribute to endless government borrowing and printing of money while locked-down...
22 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Arctic olive groves in flames
The BBC reports that “Arctic heat record is like Mediterranean, says UN”. And when the UN speaks, even scientists fall...
22 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

If I could plant like that...
The Canadian government is going to save us all with trees. And by “all” we include the government itself, which...
22 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Brownwashing
It is fairly common among climate activists to condemn corporations for “greenwashing,” that is, pretending to be carbon-neutral and environmentally...
15 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Finally a use for all that spare money
NBC crows that “Biden signs executive order to make U.S. government carbon neutral by 2050/ The president aims to leverage...
15 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Poisonous storms annihilate mankind
In a glowing review of a horrible movie, Noah Berlatsky says “I love horror films, but they don’t scare me”...
15 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

CO2 is bad for plants
One luxury climate alarmists enjoy is that they can say anything and people will assume it’s true. Announce that wildfires...
08 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Hip hip boo nature
National Geographic takes a break from beating the climate drum to warn that “Europe’s butterflies are vanishing as small farms...
08 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Oh, that's the problem, of course
Although the trash from COP26 has largely been swept away, and the ambitions, we would be remiss if we did...
08 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Standing short on climate
Fresh from signing legislation that throws billions more at climate change, President Biden ordered the release of 50 million barrels...
01 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Nature blue in rain and flood
In the National Post John Ivison reproaches the Canadian government for having spent far too much of its time and...
01 Dec, 2021| OP ED Watch

Now it's heating
Many years ago Jules Feiffer did a classic cartoon of someone explaining that “I used to think I was poor....
24 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

We're so sneaky
You’ll never guess what dirty trick we deniers have now come up with. But luckily you don’t have to because...
24 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

Letter to a critic: Dear Idiot
Despite the general certainty of alarmists that we deniers are evil blockheads we are always willing to engage in civil...
24 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

So about those glaciers
We deniers may have all the money. But those plucky alarmists sure manage to produce some slick videos, including the...
17 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

So about those penguins
To be sure, National Geographic decided to whack the penguins again as part of the imaginary meltfest. “An icy world,”...
17 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

Back to the wall
If you’re fed up with conferences like COP26 and the endless drone from the IPCC, you’re not alone. And it’s...
10 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

Back to consensus
The slippery claim that 97% of some unspecified group of scientists thinks some unspecified thing about man-made climate change is...
10 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

Back to heat deaths
As the Establishment rushes to board the sinking global warming ship, the British medical flagship journal The Lancet says climate...
10 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

More money than brainosaurus
A new video from the UN, of all lumbering organizations, shows a dinosaur warning UN delegates not to go extinct....
03 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

24 bottles of death on the wall
Another piece based on licenced premises, a gag whose origin we have been unable to trace, warns that brewing beer...
03 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

Because it's rubbish
Another reverberation from the echo chamber, in this case The Conversation, whines “In the face of chaos, why are we...
03 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

If I could walk that way...
To his credit, Prince Charles has spoken out against Extinction Rebellion blocking roads in Britain, saying “it isn’t helpful, I...
27 Oct, 2021| OP ED Watch

Looking for patterns
Last month Ottawa had its 120th consecutive day with a high at or above 17°C. It’s the longest run in...
27 Oct, 2021| OP ED Watch

Of moonshine and sunshine
As we noted last week, and most weeks prior, the computer models are terrible at making predictions. And then we...
27 Oct, 2021| OP ED Watch

But but the models...
Speaking of doubling down on a disintegrating paradigm, one path of retreat from unfavourable real-world data is into the models....
20 Oct, 2021| OP ED Watch

The weeping voice of misled youth
An especially odd feature in National Geographic begins “Not long ago Nature reported a disturbing study of the world’s youth...
20 Oct, 2021| OP ED Watch

You didn't see this coming?
Uber-green Europe is ramping up coal and gas plants in an effort to keep the lights on. The enthusiasts genuinely...
29 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Wind over math
Behind most economic mistakes is some kind of math error, technical or intuitive. And it’s certainly true of the energy...
29 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Let's do it here
With the British and European economies in disarray, a phrase that we remind you means people are going to suffer...
29 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Oh no, ozone recovery hides warming
When you say Antarctica is not warming, indeed is cooling instead, you get some funny looks from people so invested...
22 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

When greenwashing goes bad
In a recent piece in the New York Times, one Auden Schendler, author of “Getting Green Done”, winner of awards...
22 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

When green economics isn't
The rubber continues to hit the road, or the ditch, when it comes to saving us all from global heating...
15 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Speaking of math
A piece in “The Conversation,” whose slogan is “Academic rigour, journalistic flair”, just hyped the sexy new “attribution science” that...
15 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Climate ate my castle
When it comes to scientific literacy climate change really seems to have the power to cloud people’s minds. Including on...
15 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Heads China wins, tails the US loses
One reason Biden needs domestic oil, and Canadian we remind him, is the ongoing confrontation with China. And China just...
08 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

A rising tide lifts all debts
Climate alarmism has real consequences. Unless the politicians pay it lip service then head the other way. For instance the...
08 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Peer pressure
Among the devices used to shut down open discussion on climate is the elevation of “peer review” to a silver...
01 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Feeling blue over climate
From the “you just cannot win with these people” file, a reader points to an EcoWatch story about blue whales...
01 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Speaking of your livelihood
A CBC headline says “Municipalities ask Ottawa for billions of dollars to protect themselves from climate change”. And from having...
01 Sep, 2021| OP ED Watch

Marijuana smoked my planet
Proof that you can say anything on climate and people will believe you: a news story in Politico saying “Marijuana...
25 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

Greta of Arc
Like Jeanne d’Arc, Greta Thunberg apparently finds it difficult to return to normal life after leading a children’s crusade. Even...
25 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

Oh that's original
No, not the trolls accusing us of being paid liars for big oil. Despite that industry being mostly unwilling even...
25 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

Code blue for the energy industry
According to UN Secretary-General Guterres, the new IPCC report “must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before...
18 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

A linen shroud for your horny crab?
When it comes to climate change, whatever ordinary rules of common sense have survived into the 21st century seem to...
18 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

So what should we do?
In the midst of all this panic the New York Times reports that hydrogen is not clean fuel. And while...
18 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

How much is enough?
There is, or was, widespread agreement on the use of carbon pricing to fight GHG emissions. It even looked like...
04 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

Virtuous conspicuous consumption
A number of media outlets ran a recent story that, as the National Post headline put it, “The Catwalk is...
04 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

Debate ends... again
Guess what? The climate debate is over. La la la they can’t heeeear us. In the Guardian Ed Miliband, whose...
04 Aug, 2021| OP ED Watch

Money talks
A blog post shines light where climate science has cast much murk. Specifically, in Ontario Farmer, reprinted in the regrettably...
28 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

So about those floods
The floods in Germany have mercifully subsided. But the tide of exploitive rhetoric surrounding them has not. So we need...
28 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

Just because they're fools?
In the National Post Kelly McParland says “The world is awash in reports of catastrophes attributed to climate change. Floods...
28 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

We just panel the Sahara and...
On the subject of practical plans, or things that might be mistaken for same at first glance, someone on TheTango.net...
21 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

They are all going to die, although...
A new paper warns of mass extinctions due to climate change. Zzzzzzzzz. But here’s an interesting wrinkle courtesy of Eric...
21 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

Here comes the moon
Another nasty outcome of global warming is a wobble in the moon’s orbit. Which might seem even less convincing than...
21 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

He's the Mann
No extreme weather event would be complete without Michael Mann doing a victory dance. And sure enough, “That Heat Dome?...
14 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

Scare stories that didn't happen
A Globe & Mail editorial obituary for coal power in Canada went all in, declaring that “A leaked United Nations...
14 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

The settled science of unsettled science
The heat dome episode also exhibited two classic alarmist tropes. One was the old you-can’t-blame-it-on-climate-so-let’s-do-it-anyway trick. And the other is...
14 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

How to fix the _________ crisis
As you know, we are approaching a tipping point and must change our ways. We must act now. It’s time...
07 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

So you admit you were just kidding
Shortly after the IEA’s famous, or infamous, set of demands to get rid of fossil fuels, Mark Milke in the...
07 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

The voice of youth
In case the climate debate is giving you a headache, the New York Times assures you it’s over, this time...
07 Jul, 2021| OP ED Watch

In your (North) Face
In a world where too many energy executives seem ashamed of what they do for a living, Chris Wright of...
30 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Gnomes of Zurich to the climate rescue
If you ask your typical progressive whether international financiers should dictate public policy you might have to dodge as they...
30 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Speaking of the gnomes
One of the investing groups most active on the green front is BlackRock, which manages over $8.68 trillion in over...
30 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Score one for Greta
Here at the Climate Discussion Nexus we generally manage to contain our enthusiasm for noted climate scientist and grade 11...
23 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Tough times in utopia
Swiss voters just rejected a carbon tax, confirming that, as the Wall St. Journal editorialized without pulling punches, “Climate alarmists...
23 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Drought, heat, climate disaster
It was bound to happen. After a chilly spring due to weather, a hot dry spell in the United States...
23 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

The BBC's Nature trick
One of the most embarrassing moments for climate alarmism came when leaked emails from the University of East Anglia’s premier...
16 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Oh say can you CO2
One big mystery in the settled science of climate change is why the COVID lockdowns didn’t affect the increase in...
16 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Negativity in modeling
Sometimes the best lines are throwaways. For instance Richard S. Lindzen’s recent aside about “the general expectation that long-surviving systems...
16 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Or the manatee gets it
A story from NBC warns that “Florida's manatees are dying off at unusually high rates” and could be facing a...
09 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Koonin gets it
When it comes to open debate, courtesy and dialogue, you can apparently forget about climate change. The posse has come...
09 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

The insurance company gets it
In the Financial Post Parker Gallant complains about rising insurance costs related to climate. To which the obvious retort is...
09 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

Facebook goes after Koonin
It was bound to happen. As many predicted, Steven Koonin’s attempt to occupy the middle ground on climate has led...
02 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

When in doubt, sue
With all the things going wrong with the Net Zero plan, you might think its advocates would be going back...
02 Jun, 2021| OP ED Watch

So not a climate scientist, then
Steven Koonin’s new book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters is the biggest...
26 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

Fox viewers know more about climate
For activists on the left frustrated that people say they care about global warming, just not very much, here’s an...
26 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

Because we never used to have icebergs
Guess what? “Iceberg found off glacier”. But naturally NBC makes it about climate, by asserting that the normal is unusual....
26 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

Have a hot one
If you thought activism was a whole lot of no fun, may we suggest you crack a bad-tasting beer? Yes,...
19 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

And a little child shall lead them
No, we’re not criticizing Greta Thunberg again. Rather, we’re heckling the spate of comic books and other simplistic propaganda efforts...
19 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

Simply dismantle oppression, and...
From the “climate change is the greatest” file we hear that the measures needed to combat climate change, far from...
19 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

A burst of sanity
The climate debate is often discouraging because of the sheer volume of angry nonsense pumped out. And not just from...
12 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

We are all going to have died later
One of the infuriatingly slippery things about climate change panic is its flexible approach to timing. Some say disaster awaits...
12 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

This time it's different
Nothing gets your attention when it comes to the environment like a dead coral reef except perhaps a tumbling walrus...
05 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

Oh, that modeling problem
In an article on the Eocene, a period in the Earth’s history relatively free of political controversy due to its...
05 May, 2021| OP ED Watch

Experts say
It is quite remarkable what journalists with no expertise in anything insist that “experts say” about everything when they want...
28 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

And all you'd have to do...
The people who make these various carbon-emission reduction pledges do not seem to worry much about vulgar details like how...
28 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

It isn't easy being cool
For the crowd who believe that technology will save us from our sins, climate-related as otherwise, some grim news has...
28 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

Scientists beginning to say
In the Wall Street Journal, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. offers some good news. Scientists are getting fed up with something...
21 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

Not everyone got the memo
While this outbreak of sanity is occurring in some quarters, others are immune. For instance Australia’s Climate Council, which says...
21 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

By the gardens of Bangladesh
We are saved from climate change again. This time by floating vegetable gardens in Bangladesh not forests in Russia. But...
21 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

Now do climate theory
National Geographic “SCIENCE executive editor” Victoria Jaggard gushes that “One of the things I love about particle physics is how...
14 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

But if CO2 drives temperature...
Willis Eschenbach mischievously lays two charts atop one another. One being CO2 and the other being temperature. And they don’t...
14 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

Show us the lack of money
Speaking of pointed questions no one can answer about climate science, and indeed of this question in particular, Ronald Stein...
14 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

If I had a trillion dollars...
In what nowadays passes for a probing debate on whether to cancel student debt, with both parties in favour to...
07 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

Derev'ya derivatives
There is another way to solve the climate crisis, of course. And it involves accounting, which may not be everybody’s...
07 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

If you fancy a chilly dip
Roy Spencer reports that “The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2021 was -0.01 deg....
07 Apr, 2021| OP ED Watch

Arm-wrestling Mother Earth
Here’s an amazing piece of anthropomorphic editorializing from NASA disguised as science. “Our planet is constantly trying to balance the...
31 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

I am not a climate scientist but...
Willis Eschenbach takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane that sounds like a hike through Satan’s domain to most of...
31 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Tell us the one about Net Zero again
China, and its admirers, are in the odd position of boasting that among its world-beating achievements is… a network of...
31 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Oh that media climate conspiracy
A new study out of Australia reveals a media conspiracy to hide the climate crisis. So now at least you...
24 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Dust to Beijing
China’s worst sandstorm in a decade hit Beijing, just what that nation’s capital needed given its already horrific air quality....
24 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Good King Charles
One day the Prince of Wales may finally inherit the throne his mother has occupied since Truman and Mackenzie King...
24 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Solar panels cooked my planet
You know what would be brutal? If we installed a bunch of solar panels to stop global warming and they...
17 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Scientists don't say
The Biden Administration is not just saving America from Donald Trump. It’s saving the whole planet. And one way is...
17 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Oh Mann
Michael Mann is back. Not that he ever went away. But in a new paper he and three co-authors say...
17 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

So about that freezing
When the ice storm hit Texas and much of the northern hemisphere, as we pointed out, the alarmists said yes,...
10 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Where'd that CO2 come from?
People skeptical of the “CO2 = death” view not infrequently observe that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide actually got down...
10 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

You're going to pay a lot for that fuel
Bloomberg says hey, let’s raise carbon prices 600%. Or rather, Wood Mackenzie Ltd. does and Bloomberg goes yeah, man. That...
10 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

All steamed up
If you’re fed up with the lockdowns and are looking for some action, well, MSN offers you “11 steamy signs...
03 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Speaking of predictions
The Washington Post turns loose its fact-checkers on John Kerry’s claim that we have just nine years to save the...
03 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Speaking of odious
Katharine Hayhoe, autolegendary for her climate alarmism and her Christian compassion, recently tweeted in exasperation “A small sample from email...
03 Mar, 2021| OP ED Watch

Follow the carbon molecule
Can someone explain to us why it’s OK for the EU to buy natural gas from Russia but not to...
24 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

Warming turns your face red
With impeccably awful timing, two professors who self-identify as “climate scientist” write in CarbonBrief on Feb. 15 about “How global...
24 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

What died down Texas way?
Judith Curry just posted a piece by an anonymous Planning Engineer arguing that pointing the finger-bone of blame at either...
24 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

Net zero net trillions
In a perky tweet, Canada’s former Environment Minister who apparently thinks she still holds that job trills that “fighting climate...
17 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

Where'd my ice go?
Another factoid hurled about nowadays is that the pace of current temperature and other changes is unprecedented. It is false....
17 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

Who will Ridd us?
It is now three years since James Cook University in Australia, a name unlikely to survive long in the woke...
17 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

The White Green show
Adding to the climate crisis, it seems all is not well in the world of intersectional alarmism. In what we’re...
10 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

Rising CO2 causes data tampering
An important new graph links temperature changes in the 20th century strongly to atmospheric CO2. But before alarmists taunt back...
10 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

The end is nigh
According to the Guardian, which prides itself on unbalanced climate coverage, “Dizzying pace of Biden’s climate action sounds death knell...
10 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

So you admit you were lying
A great many watermelons have enthused about China’s supposed commitment to net zero by 2050 although apparently the idea is...
03 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

Speaking of decimal places
Yes, sorry, we still are. Because the spurious precision of various measurements and calculations is a major obstacle to clarity...
03 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

To a scientist with a hammer
A new study of the Sahara Meadow reveals that its climatic history is, of all things, complex. We know it...
03 Feb, 2021| OP ED Watch

Saved by the Biden
Hallelujah! The Democrats are back. And now everything will not just be wonderful, it will be effortlessly wonderful. Including climate....
27 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

We just can't get no respect
If you want to be one of the cool kids, you have to be warming faster than the average, as...
27 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

Grave news
In the ongoing parade of disastrous things caused by climate change, we now hear that it threatens the grave of...
27 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

148 papers for high sticking
It may be a caricature of climate science to speak of stable temperatures from the end of the last glaciation...
20 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

Don't retire to Bedlam
If climate change is getting you down, and apparently it is getting a lot of people down including California kids...
20 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

Otzi the sauna man
One difficulty with discussing the past history of the Earth is people’s habit of trying to get rid of the...
13 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

Oh no, no snow
Part of the battle to comprehend climate change is the tendency of predictions that failed to be replaced by predictions...
13 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

If this is victory
At least children in California are probably not worried that climate change will ruin the old-fashioned Christmases there. But if...
13 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

Willing to sacrifice... nothing
Writing in the National Post late last year, Randall Denley poked fun at the federal Liberal carbon tax exempting Quebec...
06 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

2020 hindsight
No, this item is not about COVID and lockdowns. Rather, it’s about the fact that because people like round numbers,...
06 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

Was that a great lockdown or what?
In an almost misty-eyed look back at 2020, the Guardian’s global environment editor (how many environment editors have they got?)...
06 Jan, 2021| OP ED Watch

And the Arctic gets it... again
Hot off the tundra, a new report breathlessly hyped by the New York Times’ “Climate Fwd.” newsletter: “It was not...
16 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

Greening schmeening
An awkward aspect of climate alarmism is that warming supposedly brings ecological disaster on a broad front, and supposedly warming...
16 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

Adaptation: It is a difficult concept
Wow. Sea-level rise sure did a number on Venice last week. Or rather human stupidity did. The famously waterlogged Italian...
16 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

And the kitchen sink too
People who express doubt about climate orthodoxy can expect, among other things, irritated missives containing a long list of terrible...
09 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

It's all in the mind
There is a certain type of political ideology that considers motives far more important than methods, not only when it...
09 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

Or out of it
Perhaps due to an excessive focus on states of mind, climate alarmism seems to be in danger of tearing free...
09 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

Dear Mr. Ambassador
On October 5 the Hill Times ran an Op Ed by Chinese Ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu that began nostalgically...
02 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

Send a greenboat
One thing Joe Biden might do is revive imperialism. Which a surprising number of unlikely people seem to advocate where...
02 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

40,000 years of progress overnight
The day of the U.S. election, warming guru Bill McKibben wrote that while most American elections are about the next...
02 Dec, 2020| OP ED Watch

El mar contaminado
A reader shares with us a story about how Greenpeace got into trouble back in 2008 for a book showing...
25 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

Not making it easy
Recently the UN released a deeply flawed report on the supposed increase in climate-related disasters, based on an elementary statistical...
25 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

Great leap nowhere
Nowadays the “Great Reset”, as Eric Worrall notes, is the big thing for those who think we can finally make...
25 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

Not so simple after all
The standard line on climate is that the science is both settled and simple. Which makes one wonder why so...
18 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

A blast from the past
This summer there was a big hoohah over a record temperature set in Death Valley, California. Hottest ever, proof of...
18 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

Meanwhile in the real world
The National Post runs a brief “Four things to know about autumn pollution in India” piece (subscription required) that explains...
18 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

West Side story
In any debate including that on climate there are voices that are clearly unreasonable and it would be unfair to...
11 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

So now can we build back better?
The all-but-certain victory of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the U.S. election has the usual suspects very excited about...
11 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

Who turned out the lights?
To get a sense of the magnitude of the practical challenge facing any politician who takes their climate pledges seriously,...
11 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

The problem of green immorality
We refer here not to hypocrisy by jet-setting celebrities and even scientists or the silencing of dissent by environmental activists....
04 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

1919 or 1719?
Andrew Montford notes that the UK’s Central England Temperature Record is one of the best we have, going back to...
04 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

Biden saves the planet
As the American election stumbled toward the finish line, NBC informed its audience, or at least told them, “U.S. vote...
04 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

Where'd the ozone go?
It is generally agreed that decisive action has solved a variety of environmental problems over the last 60 years or...
28 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

Henderson the climate king
Many years ago Richard Weaver published a book with the superficially trite title Ideas Have Consequences. In fact it’s an...
28 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

Sceptics with emissions
A piece in Environment Journal frets that “India, China and the US are the biggest climate-crisis sceptics despite being three...
28 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

But if it's a science...
Last month Geoffrey Sherrington put forward a challenge worth noting. He says all kinds of claims have been made about...
21 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

If only it had warmed
A new study says climate change wiped out human species. Told you so nyeah nyeah. To be sure, the species...
21 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

Question everything, except you-know-what
Remember when Brontosaurus went extinct? No, not way back when temperature suddenly dipped between the Jurassic and Cretaceous for reasons...
14 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

This game is hard
You know how climate change makes everything worse, right? Well, apparently it even makes solar power worse. Yes, that’s right....
14 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

Just the made-up facts, sir
In urging NATO to fight climate change, its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg began an Op Ed “Growing up in Norway,...
14 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

Wooden headed
As we at CDN have observed frequently, and again h/t Thomas Sowell among others, a fundamental divide in debates on...
07 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

A hotfoot from Mother Earth
Judith Curry flags a piece by “The Ethical Skeptic” saying that a significant impact on climate, including the bit where...
07 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

India starves as India feasts
Vijay Jayaraj complains that CNN has just run a very long, very wrong article called “The one chance we have:...
07 Oct, 2020| OP ED Watch

A tale of two Chinas
Climate Home News is over the moon about China’s latest climate pledge. “Yes, it’s official: the country responsible for more...
30 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

Et tu, hydrogen
A new study says to H with the fuel of the future… which hydrogen has been since roughly 1836. The...
30 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

All bad all the time
Another reason it’s hard to make sense of the supposed science behind climate change is that all effects of climate...
30 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

Unscientific American
The venerable publication Scientific American has thrust itself into the Op Ed section by giving the first political endorsement in...
23 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

You can't win, you know
The problem with hydrogen energy, as opposed say to blimp-filling which of course is now about helium, is that you...
23 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

Of bureaucratic capture
Now there’s a headline to repel readers. But the process by which a small dedicated group willing to work the...
23 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

But if so...
We are often hustled along on climate with claims that the crisis is too urgent for deliberation or evidence-gathering, that...
16 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

Of Galileo and Canute
In a world where people loudly insist on “following the science” on everything from COVID-19 to climate, often with a...
16 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

97% nonsense redux
John Cook, one of the authors central to the claim of a massive scientific consensus behind an urgent, man-made warming...
09 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

Bad grief
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, climate grief is a major health issue. Now before you laugh, please be aware...
09 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

If they won't listen, yell
The New York Times’ “Climate Fwd.” breaks a vital climate story. “Whether children are studying at home or in person…...
09 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

These black lives matter too
Further to the California energy anti-miracle, Paul Driessen of CFACT observes that while refineries sit idle, the poor struggle with...
02 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

Washing away the economy
According to a piece in “The Conversation”, a site that frankly reads more like “The PC Monologue” than a diverse...
02 Sep, 2020| OP ED Watch

Don't hit us again
The most famous meteorite collision in history, or prehistory, is the one widely believed to have taken out the dinosaurs....
26 Aug, 2020| OP ED Watch

Stable instability
One of our recurring themes at CDN is that a giveaway for a story that is self-evidently unreliable is its...
26 Aug, 2020| OP ED Watch

We'll go with ideological fool, thanks
In the spirit of friendly debate Guardian environment editor Damian Carrington says there are four basic kinds of mentally or...
26 Aug, 2020| OP ED Watch

Whereas cold
The New York Times, being very woke, publishes “a series of photo essays documenting the outsize effect that extreme heat...
19 Aug, 2020| OP ED Watch

Drat those bears
Remember Al Gore’s famous CGI doomed polar bear unable to clamber onto that last shard of ice? Well, it seems...
19 Aug, 2020| OP ED Watch

Would you not shut up already?
On the CBC Don Pittis complains about climate change intruding into every imaginable story about energy. Before you say “Hear...
19 Aug, 2020| OP ED Watch

Et tu, RWP?
Climate alarmists have been doing their best to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period lest it upset such notions...
29 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

ECS shoots up, flames at 11
Dr. Kate Marvel, one of those scientists whose social media activities make it hard to believe she’s a neutral observer,...
29 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

The project to end projects
Environment and Climate Change Canada has put forward a plan to make sure the economic recovery, should it get underway,...
29 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

Here come the dissenters
As Michael Walsh put it on The Pipeline, “One by one, prominent members of the Doomsday Cult of Climate Annihilation...
22 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

Vice squad
An article in Vice denounces the new Ford Bronco as sinful. Parenthetically we wonder whether a publication called Virtue might...
22 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

Et tu, Okmok?
This just in: Caesar murdered, Rome in turmoil, volcano at 43 BC. According to a team of scientists and historians...
22 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

Rather not be in Pennyslvania
David Middleton takes aim at yet another Guardian panic piece on climate that says atmospheric CO2 is about to reach...
15 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

Plastic people
Plastic is inexpensive, versatile, reliable and indispensable in modern life, so it is only natural that the New York Times...
15 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

Do they also get the cheese?
The UK Met Office, and an author in The Conversation which on climate might want to reconsider renaming itself The...
15 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

It's another gas
Eric Worrall has fun with Germany’s latest alternative energy lurch, this time toward hydrogen. In the funhouse world of politics,...
08 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

Doing the climate grovel
If there’s one group of people routinely blamed for climate change denialism, it’s oil companies. But as with so much...
08 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

It's worse than we thought
Given all the uncertainties in climate science, it’s important to cling to one key point: The science is settled and...
08 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

But if not...
David Middleton points to a fascinating thought experiment that ought to be applied very widely to climate change models and...
01 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

The agnotology of jailing deniers
In an essay on CarbonBrief, which bills itself as “Clear on Climate”, a PhD student and two professors scratch their...
01 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

Math am hard and so are economics
A few years ago august persons warned us of the catastrophic impact of climate change on prosperity. Or tried to....
01 Jul, 2020| OP ED Watch

And what of history?
Erasing history is dangerous business, as is rewriting it. For instance the whole issue of the cooling scare of the...
24 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

I thank God I am not as others are
In The MIT Press Reader a professor of sociology utters yet another version of the old Pharisee’s prayer, this time...
24 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

But you have my sympathies
It’s curious how gung-ho people are about artificial intelligence given the drumbeat of dystopian warnings about a world in which...
24 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

We are all going to die
It might seem snide of us to reuse this tagline borrowed from Arthur Dent whenever we report on yet another...
17 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

Rock around the thermometer
In “Climate Fwd,” the megawoke newsletter of the New York Times, Kendra Pierre-Louis discusses increasing references to climate change in...
17 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

Wealth: It is a difficult concept
Speaking of doing more harm than good, as we so often find ourselves doing when it comes to climate policy,...
17 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

Trees wither into saplings
Have you noticed the thing about the trees? Well, it seems they don’t like CO2 despite living on the stuff....
10 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

And it's... worse than we thought
Guess what? Climate change is worse than we thought and we’re all going to… well, you know. Including another chorus...
10 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

Penguins give it to climate
As you know, all effects of climate change are bad. And all contribute to runaway instability that laughs at the...
10 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

Unmoored
We have to note that Michael Moore’s film Planet of the Humans is now gone from YouTube because a photographer...
03 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

Net zero hope
Rex Murphy’s latest National Post cri de cœur on behalf of his home province falls on the same deaf ears...
03 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

It didn't work
On ABC Radio Richard Aedy asks why nobody has done anything about climate change. On Watts Up With That Eric...
03 Jun, 2020| OP ED Watch

Exposing the lies
Naomi Oreskes, whose highly selective reading of a less than rigorous sample of paper abstracts first somehow spawned the 97%...
27 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

Death by climate
The occasional claim that hundreds of thousands of people are now dying of climate change runs up against the inconvenient...
27 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

When in danger or in doubt
An item from last month that got lost in the inbox: Indefatigable evangelical alarmist Katharine Hayhoe tweets that “HALF of...
27 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

Some not hot models
The extreme response of many governments to COVID-19 was driven by… computer models. We’re “following the science“, they told us...
20 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

A PhD in sounding like an expert
The modern fixation on experts is especially odd in that it seems strongly to prefer those who lack practical experience....
20 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

Green New Deal is free
Another major leap forward into fantasy from the Deep Ecologists. In response to criticism from Jonah Goldberg of the prohibitive...
20 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

Weather v climate
We often make sport of the ever-shifting and opportunistic definition of “climate” as opposed to “weather”, by which any unusually...
13 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

Moore Mann
If you thought the spat over Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans couldn’t get worse, you don’t spend much time...
13 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

It's a gas gas gas
Lost in the pandemic shutdown are some numbers that ought to give anyone concerned about climate pause. You know how...
13 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

Climate change for the birds
The mass extinction of North American birds, reported in 2019 and heralded as yet another coming crisis, has been cancelled....
06 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

Yellow and green make red
Harry Wilkinson delivers a harsh verdict on Emmanuel Macron’s “cunning plan” to deflect yellow vest anger at rising gas prices...
06 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

RAHR!!!
If we startled you with that atavistic roar please do not be alarmed. It is merely the distant echo rather...
06 May, 2020| OP ED Watch

It can't work, can it?
Michael Moore’s explosive new documentary also raises a perennial debate about the environment, resource depletion and so on going back...
29 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

Head for the hills
The Wildlife Conservation Society says that as climate change drives some species to climb higher up into the hills and...
29 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

A drought of common sense
The other scare story of the century (weekly edition) is that the United States is in the grip of a...
22 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

Uh, that'd be 'not'
NBC profiles a student who grew a canoe out of mushrooms. Which is totally cool, including because if you got...
22 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

We found Sven's horned hat
The awkward thing about pointing to a receding glacier and shouting “warmest year ever!” is that if the melting ice...
22 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

And your children's children
When organizations like CDN are lambasted for crimes against posterity and told our descendants won’t forgive us that they were...
15 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

Sea-riously
From his valuable Sealevel.Info site, Dave Burton calls for brave souls to step forward as expert reviewers for the IPCC’s...
15 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

Very big green
On The Pipeline, Tom Finnerty produces some scary numbers about the scale of climate change spending. Specifically, citing Stephen Moore,...
15 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

Who'd have thought
It’s hardly surprising when the environmentalist crowd surveys the wreckage of the COVID-19 crisis and waves it away as nothing...
08 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

Hitting the beach
No, we won’t be doing it any time soon, apparently. Or ever, if a new study from the European Union’s...
08 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

Green Wutopianism
We ask again: Is this really the moment? And once again someone thinks so: Ex-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna enthusiastically retweets...
08 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

You still don't quite get it
A piece in Foreign Policy attempts to pour cold water on activists’ hopes that COVID-19 will cool our allegedly blazing...
01 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

Revenge of Gaia
Not to say COVID-19 serves you right. But according to Inger Anderson, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, it…...
01 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

But we can call you names
A spat erupted in the pages of the National Post after columnist Terence Corcoran accused various climate crusaders of welcoming...
01 Apr, 2020| OP ED Watch

How to lie with pictures
Willis Eschenbach also noticed those stories about the melting ice caps. And he went and got the data and created...
25 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

Green cars stall
In The Australian Bjorn Lomborg warns that electric cars aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. For starters, the idea...
25 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

Unlike a great wind
“Tropical cyclones, nor’easters, and Arctic outbreaks are a particular interest of mine,” Chris Martz enthuses. But before you say everybody...
25 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

UNESCO to the rescue
UNESCO, which is an organization that does stuff like “Building peace in the minds of men and women” according to...
18 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

The nub of the gist
For all the complexities of climate change, there are some core areas and key contentions that must be the starting...
18 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

The last refuge of an alarmist
When Samuel Johnson declared patriotism to be “the last refuge of a scoundrel” one feels from the uneasy perspective of...
18 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

Add history to her study list
In the Edmonton Journal David Staples says it out loud. Greta Thunberg has gone off the beam and some “knowledgeable...
11 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

Yes, Wuhan to the rescue
Last week we noted that the impact of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus showed “how enormous policy changes will have to...
11 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

The end of winter, spring 2020 edition
There’s a saying that economists deserve credit for predicting eight of the last three recessions. And it’s true that if...
04 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

Birds of prey
More than two centuries ago Edmund Burke delivered a lethal putdown of bloody factionalism in the French Revolution: “Birds of...
04 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

Weinstein deniers
It really is a bit much even in the nasty debate over climate. The term “denier,” as hurled at those...
04 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

What price carbon neutrality?
Melanie Phillips warns that carbon neutrality is a threat to Western civilization. She says it wouldn’t just spell economic ruin,...
26 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

Boston tide party
The Washington Post tells us of Boston that “Famous for its role in America’s war for independence, this city is...
26 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

Exactly the same as it wasn't
Here comes the melting Antarctic again. No really. Three authors on The Conversation say that there was a massive sea...
19 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

Et tu, Prime Minister Kenney?
In what Postmedia columnist Don Braid calls “an important and crucial change of tone” for Alberta’s UCP, Premier Jason Kenney...
19 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

The A-B-C of alarmism
University of Guelph economist Ross McKitrick lumps everyone in the climate debate into three very broad groups labeled by non-pejorative...
19 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

Rhetoric melts ice sheets
A site called “Severe Weather Europe” tells us “An incredible temperature high of 18.3°C (65°F) has been measured in Antarctica!...
12 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

Do not ask questions
A London, Ontario city councillor is in a very hot climatic region for daring to study global warming. He was...
12 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

Oh that's original
An Australian academic, wondering how best to encourage honest and constructive discussion about climate change, says it’s time to “drive...
05 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

Atlantic 2, Dolphins 0
No, not the Flipper kind. According to CNBC, the rising oceans will turn Miami’s professional footballers into a water polo...
05 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

A Vesuvius of misinformation
Well this is awkward. The BBC, like other media outlets, has been covering melting of the Thwaites Glacier in West...
05 Feb, 2020| OP ED Watch

World ends, children hardest hit
A reader sends us an article from Time magazine last fall on “How climate change is clobbering kids’ health”. Except...
29 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Whereas a virus...
The weird let’s-hear-it-for-China’s-environmental-policy drumbeat continues. On Watt’s Up With That Eric Worrall notes Financial Times national editor and columnist Edward...
29 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Down you go
It seems that Jakarta, Indonesia faces a very real risk of flooding by 2050. Another alarmist “gotcha”? Well no, says...
29 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Ocean warming: The real reason to be worried
A paper in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences announces breathlessly that "record-setting ocean warmth continued in 2019". Its remarkably...
29 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Rats, climate change
National Geographic has a genuine scientific moment, saying that “In all the time humans have been discovering and describing new...
22 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Let them eat nothing
Paul Driessen and David Wojick warn that Africa’s poverty is being perpetuated by “carbon colonialist” banks. The African Development Bank...
22 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Because we never used to have climate
A paper in EOS recounts the fall of the Assyrian Empire due to climate catastrophe, specifically, a megadrought lasting over...
22 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Noooooo, not treeees
A piece from The Independent Institute chortles that planting trees looks like “by far—the cheapest and most effective approach to...
15 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Maybe chase him on a scooter?
Obviously the solution to climate change is alternative energy if we could just get the wretched stuff to work. Which...
15 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

So we all agree that you're right
A new study from the University of Ottawa says we’re not polarized on climate after all. We all share the...
15 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Tell the truth and...
Toronto Sun columnist Lorrie Goldstein says “If the next federal Conservative leader is looking for a coherent policy on human-induced...
08 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

How sick is this planet?
E&ENews’s Climate Wire complains that “Despite the threat climate change poses to human health, very few medical schools have made...
08 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

Say goodbye to your toboggan... again
The National Observer warns that some York University professor has warned in Limnology and Oceanography that children won’t know what...
08 Jan, 2020| OP ED Watch

To the man with a hammer...
Justin Trudeau congratulates Boris Johnson on winning a landslide victory in the UK on the slogan “Get Brexit Done” and...
18 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

Are you all fools?
The Canadian Press reports that “Ottawa says New Brunswick’s proposed carbon tax passes the federal smell test.” Instead of paying...
18 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

Angry, Whiny Person of the Year
Eric Worrall is not impressed that Greta Thunberg is Time’s “Person of the Year”. Indeed, in addition to calling her...
18 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

Stop voting and get with the program
The latest victim of climate change? Democracy. See, if member states of the UN don’t smarten up the Security Council...
11 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

It's not even a word
Remember global warming? Then there was climate change. Then climate weirding. And now it’s “climate emergency”. Why, it’s even the...
11 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

Then all the plants died and...
Some white-coated clowns are engineering E. coli to live on CO2 instead of the old-style sugar or other carbs. As...
11 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

Dreaming of a green Christmas
If climate change is this big existential emergency, what’s the New York Times doing saying you can fight it by...
04 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

The science is rubbish
Periodically some “denier” will complain about the supposedly solid science behind global warming alarmism, to a chorus of well-bred boos....
04 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

You had me at 210
Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission huffs and puffs and announces in its final report that all will be well if we impose...
04 Dec, 2019| OP ED Watch

Fraaack, what?
The Heartland Institute says fracking is great for the economy and the environment, based on a White House Council of...
27 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

The year in review in advance
According to the Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman, 2019 is “increasingly likely to be” the 2nd or 3rd warmest on record...
27 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

The case of expensive gas
The Terrace Standard reports that “B.C. gasoline prices are still higher than other parts of the country, Premier John Horgan...
20 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

It's a reality thing
In the Toronto Sun Lorne Gunter warns that carbon offsets are basically a shell game. It’s not that there’s necessarily...
20 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

Heck no, we won't go
An obstreperous objection to climate orthodoxy has been raised not by a person or think tank but a town in,...
20 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

World ends, no film at 11
Al Gore and his acolytes will be taking his show on the road later this month, with seminars in schools...
13 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

Now plants are bad too
Among the aspects of climate alarmism that invites and yet defies parody is that everything is bad. For instance a...
13 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

The dream dies hard
One day man will be able to predict the weather far into the future. Maybe. On his blog Cliff Mass...
06 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

Where are the unicorns?
Another dream that dies hard is that of abundant alternative energy. As Mark P. Mills writes for the Foundation for...
06 Nov, 2019| OP ED Watch

Time to panic
Perhaps you think one problem with the climate change debate is the increasingly shrill and often also peculiar warnings of...
30 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Hooray, California is on fire
Not, you’d think, cause for celebration. But the New York Times Magazine runs a piece by Abraham Lustgarten saying at...
30 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Now you see it, now you do
We and others have noted the annoying tendency of climate alarmists to dismiss cold events as just weather while pointing...
30 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

When you don't have power
In California, NBC reports, the troubled utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has imposed rolling blackouts on millions of...
23 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

It's a non-gas
Having blocked a natural gas pipeline, because GHGs are bad, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered the National Grid...
23 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Common sense, RIP
Time magazine publishes Chris Wilson’s mock obituary of the Holocene, supposedly bumped off by humans who have now dumped themselves...
23 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Fragile Chinese delusion
One of the odder things about the debate on climate is how many people fantasize that the People’s Republic of...
16 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Deniers on the couch again
Yet another professor has weighed in with a psychological diagnosis of people who think there’s no global warming crisis if...
16 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

If it was a religion...
Like psychoanalysing your opponents, accusing them of espousing a pseudo-religion as Gerard Baker did in the Wall Street Journal can...
16 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Zzzzzzzzz
Writing in Maclean’s, Stephen Maher produces a piece of stunning unoriginality on climate change, from its banal title “What Canada’s...
09 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Coming soon to a headline near you
Anthony Watts at the invaluable Watt’s Up With That blog has investigated a weird statistical phenomenon in which everywhere is...
09 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

The monsoons of death
Heavy rainfall in India causes deadly floods in the northeastern states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The Daily Telegraph intones...
09 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Oh that climate strike
NBC gushes that “It was the floodwaters brushing her jawline that convinced Theresa Sebastian it was time to get serious...
02 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

Listen to the scientists
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has compiled 50 years’ worth of failed eco-alarmist predictions on its blog. It’s quite the parade...
02 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

How to ditch a used windmill
It’s not easy. Just ask the folks in Caspar, Wyoming. Not the first name to spring to mind when you...
02 Oct, 2019| OP ED Watch

And forgive us our trespasses
NBC News, as it is still called despite the increasing predominance of uncritical advocacy in its output especially on this...
25 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

Henderson the Ice King
Geoengineering is a staple of online conspiracy theories. Just Google “chemtrails”. But apparently it’s becoming reputable as a way to...
25 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

March for... um... a plan
Mike Gerbis, CEO of “GLOBE Series”, which describes itself as “in the business of transformation” (oh, that’s original) as “part...
25 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

Flat Earth Society: Climate Model Division
Climate is complicated, and no one faults climatologists for using simplifying assumptions to make their computer models manageable… within reason....
18 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

It is more patriarchy
Just as in some circles every bad thing that happens is due to climate change, in others it’s due to...
18 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

Another children's crusade
David Suzuki, not content with scaring kids by melting Santa’s Workshop, has a new project called 18to8 to give the...
18 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

Oh, it feels hypocritical, does it?
Extinction Rebellion protestors in Manchester, England are caught… what? Eating a hamburger? Flying a boat crew across the Atlantic? Taking...
11 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

Speaking of paranoia
It’s always a sign of trouble when a theory starts to sweep everything into one gigantic bundle, especially one with...
11 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

Oh Gaia I'm soooo depressed
There seems to be a significant debate going on among depressed climate alarmists about whether people who are psychologically crushed...
11 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

We all have to go sooner or later
An article in Science says we should start planning now for mass evacuation from coastal areas because the seas may...
04 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

A fly in the ointment
The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, CFACT, asks what the UN is thinking flying 5,000 people to Salt Lake City...
04 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

Nooo, not the lobsters
The Ottawa Citizen’s Andrew Cohen waxes lyrical about successful efforts to save the American bald eagle at his summer island...
04 Sep, 2019| OP ED Watch

When Harry met hypocrisy
Prince Harry has been taking a fair bit of heat including from the National Post’s Chris Selley for making sanctimonious...
28 Aug, 2019| OP ED Watch

The Ball is not in his court
Canadian climatologist Tim Ball has been on the receiving end of several lawsuits because of his often acerbic criticism of...
28 Aug, 2019| OP ED Watch

Never shake thy Gore-y locks
If climate science is about science, rather than say interpretive dance, it must proceed by making predictions then verifying or...
21 Aug, 2019| OP ED Watch

Dam nonsense
Willis Eschenbach lampoons media outlets for attributing the partial collapse of the Whaley Bridge Dam in Derbyshire, England to climate...
21 Aug, 2019| OP ED Watch

Can't imagine why
Climate Home News is all sad that the latest extreme UN call to shut down everything to save the planet...
21 Aug, 2019| OP ED Watch

Warming melts snowflakes
Judith Curry roasts climate scientists suffering “pre-traumatic stress disorder” because of things they think might be going to happen, with...
31 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

Where to bury a reef
One major difficulty in committing a murder is hiding the body. Especially if you’re climate change and your victim is...
31 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

The 37 problem consensus
Why oh why won’t we stop burning up the planet, Maclean’s asks? And then it answers: we are idiots. Or...
31 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

Raining cats and dogs
Bob Vislocky takes vigorous exception to the predictable ambulance-chasing of Hurricane Barry. Particularly a New Republic piece by Eric Holthaus...
24 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

Passing the champagne for the planet
Britain’s Daily Mail runs a scathing piece on the high-living Committee on Climate Change, the great and good demanding we...
24 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

Here come the refugees
Years ago the United Nations predicted millions of refugees due to climate change. When they didn’t show up, one option...
17 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

I don't get free hits?
A journalist for The New Republic feels triggered, or something, because when she wrote nonsense about climate she was criticized...
17 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

Turning green
A new study from the Global Warming Policy Foundation warns that green energy isn’t very green. Some of its arguments...
17 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

When scientists rebel
A group of 90 Italian scientists just signed a strongly-worded petition asking governments to concentrate on fighting known environmental problems...
10 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

Crank up the AC, will ya?
This sort of sentiment is not normally associated with do-gooders. But Rachel Kyte, “chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for...
10 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

The climate reveal
The debate over climate change is ill-tempered even by the debased modern standard of public discourse. And, to be fair,...
10 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

Federalism cooked my planet
The New York Times blows a head valve because “The Trump administration on Wednesday replaced former President Barack Obama’s effort...
03 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

When in doubt, play the race card
The UN says global warming will cause “climate apartheid” in which “the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict,...
03 Jul, 2019| OP ED Watch

IPCC v IPCC
Judith Curry writes that if you want to know what’s wrong with the conclusions reached by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel...
26 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

Not worth the wait
The federal Conservatives finally unveiled their climate plan that will satisfy everyone because it stops global warming without a carbon...
26 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

Climate porn
On the Industry Energy blog, Terry Etam expresses baffled frustration that climate alarmists link fossil fuels to child porn. No,...
26 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

We have ways to make you think
Yet another professor of communication has a plan for curing denialisticism. “Warming oceans. Shrinking ice sheets. Intense rainfall events. Rising...
19 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

Could would might
NBC warns us that “Without swift action on climate change, heat waves could kill thousands in U.S. cities”. If only...
19 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

Erasing the Whatstand?
David Middleton complains on Watts Up With That that in addition to trying to erase the Medieval Warm period and...
19 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

The terminology emergency
The National Post’s Kelly McParland takes exception to activists upping the rhetorical ante from climate change to climate emergency to...
12 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

The war on nothing
One reason scary words aren’t leading to effective action is that many of them are obviously wrong. The apocalyptarians talk...
12 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

Great Lakes, we're doomed
On the Powerline blog John Hinderaker asks of climate change “What Can’t It Do?” He notes that the Great Lakes...
12 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

The War Against Earth
Google publishes a Splinter news story headlined “Trump Administration Joins Climate Change in War Against Earth”. Oooh, that awful Donald...
05 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

Because we never used to have heat waves
Climate Home News says “Last July’s deadly heatwave in Japan could not have happened without human influence on the climate”...
05 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

When the main feature is the big bug
The Business Council of B.C. rallies round the white flag in Business in Vancouver, with executive VP and chief policy...
05 Jun, 2019| OP ED Watch

The voice of youth drones on
With commendable consistency, Climate Home News announces “an exciting project” in which it “will host reporting, personal reflections and commentary...
29 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

The cauliflowers of colonialism
There’s a fine line between being woke and being insomniac and losing focus and perspective. Thus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might want...
29 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Green route up
Joel Kotkin in the Orange County Register urges environmentalists to come to grips with humanity if they want to win...
29 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

You sank my tanker bill
The Liberals’ odd Bill C-48, banning oil tankers making landfall in BC north of Vancouver Island, seems to have foundered...
22 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Now that you've won...
Michael Binnion, president of Questerre Energy, which has long sought to produce oil and gas in Quebec, puts out a...
22 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Was that your house?
In the National Post, Kelly McParland says it’s not smart to build your home on a floodplain. Which sounds like...
15 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Get more fibre
If fossil fuels really are a threat to the environment it’s still not an open-and-shut case that governments should go...
15 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

How to do carbon tax tres mal
In the Financial Post Jean Michaud and Germain Belzile of the Montreal Economic Institute warn that the federal carbon tax...
15 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

All bad all the time
One curious feature of climate alarmism is that if there’s bad weather we’re told it’s because the Earth warmed, as...
08 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Tax my plastic, please?
The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation says no, specifically to a proposal in a report from Deloitte for Environment Canada that says...
08 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Is that stuff snow?
It’s revealing that Ottawa saw freezing rain and snow on rooftops on May 1. May 1! Calgary and southern Alberta...
08 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Green China
In a welcome development, the firmly alarmist Climate Change News reports skeptically on China pitching its strategically ominous “Belt and...
01 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Wot about the workers?
An overwrought museum piece in the Guardian called for a general strike in Britain. We could support the clichés it...
01 May, 2019| OP ED Watch

Big green
One of the trite character-assassination-in-place-of-argument tropes in the climate debate is that skeptics are paid liars with high bank balances...
24 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Batty propaganda
Paul Homewood takes square aim at the BBC’s “Climate Change – The Facts?” with David Attenborough, showing that Attenborough’s “facts”...
24 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Time for a coup
Climate Change News praises Extinction Rebellion for its plan to bypass democracy to get what it wants. They concede that...
24 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Big brother can you spare a fridge?
The Canadian federal government is taking a lot of heat for its climate-driven subsidy to Loblaws to buy refrigerators, including...
17 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

The past is cooling fast
A troubling new video from Tony Heller shows that the United States has been cooling rapidly—in the past. The 1930s...
17 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

The grass is not greener
With spring finally staggering toward us in a thick sweater, the New York Times “Climate Fwd.” newsletter is full of...
17 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

The fire next time
The Globe & Mail’s Gary Mason shows some first-class fake courage admitting that a column slamming Conservative politicians over carbon...
10 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Climate porn fails to titillate
In the Toronto Sun Lorrie Goldstein says “climate porn” doesn’t work. Which seems especially pertinent in Ottawa where a report...
10 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Not how you'd do it
In the Calgary Sun Kenneth Green of the Fraser Institute writes that Canada’s carbon tax is not by the textbook....
10 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Green death
Former Canadian finance minister Joe Oliver writes movingly about the reality that trapping poor people in “energy poverty” means disease,...
03 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Retreat from reality
On NBC’s apparently misnamed “Think” Steve Krakauer calls AOC “a perfect role model for millennials” not because of her fleeting...
03 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Maybe if you told the truth
A professor of panic, sorry, English, says the plan to frighten people by mentioning climate change in every story about...
03 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Not saving the world
Nature warns that (yawn) “Global warming will happen faster than we think”. Extreme weather political urgency emissions rising etc. The...
27 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

Who's funding you?
Raise any sort of question about climate science or policy and that’s the first question you’ll be asked, in a...
27 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

Lies about errors
One pernicious feature of the climate debate is the degree to which orthodoxy relies on insult and character assassination, especially...
27 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

And about time
In the Edmonton Journal David Staples writes that the Alberta energy industry is finally speaking out about the massive foreign-funded...
20 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

Jobs jobs rubbish
Rex Murphy cuts loose in the National Post about the Trudeau Liberals’ insistence that their repeated interventions on the SNC-Lavalin...
20 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

Skin in the game
Joe Bastardi, a professional weather forecaster, calls for a little fact-based humility on climate. He argues that we don’t know...
20 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

Past them trees
Bjorn Lomborg says when it comes to carbon emissions, we need to be very skeptical of government accounting. New Zealand,...
13 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

Shutting down oil
In the National Post former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall offers a novel take on the contrast between the Trudeau administration’s...
13 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

When in doubt, blame Bush
Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna recently had to cancel a Burlington Town Hall about the warming crisis because of harsh...
06 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

These boys is lyin'
In the Spectator, Matt Ridley writes about a plague of “Lying with science” by those he dubs “apocoholics”. He says...
06 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

The right to doubt
In Forbes Paul Hsieh finds himself obliged to defend himself, and us, against a proposal by a NYU psychology professor...
06 Mar, 2019| OP ED Watch

The rich one and the big one
Warren Buffett, the “Oracle of Omaha”, warns that one day a major disaster will strike, with enormous economic as well...
27 Feb, 2019| OP ED Watch

Oil schmoil, what about SNC-Lavalin?
In the Financial Post, Diane Francis calls the Trudeau administration’s “pre-occupation” with the SNC-Lavalin scandal rather than “the pro-pipeline and...
27 Feb, 2019| OP ED Watch

Some nukes
There are some serious people out there. Mike Schellenberger of Environmental Progress, who Time Magazine has called a “Hero of...
20 Feb, 2019| OP ED Watch

Green baloney
In the National Post Rex Murphy lowers the boom on the new American left’s “Green New Deal”, crediting Ocasio-Cortez for...
20 Feb, 2019| OP ED Watch

If Quebec had oil...
In the National Post Kelly McParland’s criticism of Justin Trudeau in the SNC-Lavalin scandal for suddenly discovering the value of...
20 Feb, 2019| OP ED Watch

Avoid the German option
In the Times of London, Tony Lodge of the Centre for Policy Studies draws on the disastrous German example to...
13 Feb, 2019| OP ED Watch

Carbon tax theory and practice
In the National Post, Peter Shawn Taylor of Canadians for Affordable Energy argues that carbon taxes work better in the...
13 Feb, 2019| OP ED Watch

AOC not A-OK
Bjorn Lomborg raised one skeptical environmentalist's eyebrow in the New York Post when everybody’s favorite radical socialist, novice Congresswoman Alexandria...
13 Feb, 2019| OP ED Watch

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