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Category: 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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