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Category: 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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