Archives: Comebacks

Although climate change has taken a backseat to the Coronavirus pandemic, it is as essential as ever that we not lose momentum in fighting the climate crisis.

No, it is essential that we learn the right lessons from the pandemic. Those of us who have been critical...

22 Apr, 2020|

The global response to the COVID-19 crisis shows us how the world could pull together and tackle the climate crisis.

No it doesn’t. World leaders came together and inflicted an emergency shutdown on the economy because the viral pandemic was...

15 Apr, 2020|

“The burning of fossil fuels is destabilizing the very foundations of life on the planet.” (An actual quotation from a recent Canadian newspaper opinion piece.)

No, actually the burning of fossil fuels has radically improved the foundations of life on this planet. It has given...

08 Apr, 2020|

The time for talk is over. We have to act now.

The challenge has always been, and still is, to avoid actions that do more harm than good. "Action" that makes...

06 Apr, 2020|

The world's largest corporations get it: they are realizing that climate change is going to have a direct impact on their bottom line.

No, they're realizing that climate alarmism and hysteria are leading to bad policy decisions that will have a direct impact...

06 Apr, 2020|

Don't believe the naysayers: the transition to a low-carbon economy is an incredible economic opportunity and we need to embrace it now.

Great, then it will happen through private sector innovation and investment, the way all major technological transformations have happened. If...

06 Apr, 2020|

The experts tell us that putting a price on carbon is the best way to tackle climate change.

Yes but they also say it's the only policy you should use. But no government is ever satisfied just with...

06 Apr, 2020|

The vast majority of climate scientists are telling us we face a crisis and we have to act.

No such survey has ever been taken. The surveys that have been taken say that scientists agree greenhouse gases have...

06 Apr, 2020|

Fossil fuel-driven economic growth over the past 30 years has pushed us to the brink of a global climate catastrophe.

If the small amount of warming we have experienced were such a catastrophe, why has everything gotten so much better?...

06 Apr, 2020|

We owe it to our children and grandchildren to do whatever it takes to stop the climate catastrophe.

No, we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stop exaggerating the climate change issue, because by doing so...

06 Apr, 2020|

It's incredibly short-sighted to say you're not willing to accept modest changes to your lavish lifestyle to stop the planet from burning up in our children's lifetime.

If only it were that simple. If we were just being asked to accept modest changes we could make them...

06 Apr, 2020|

So you're saying you don't believe the science?

The “science" makes a lot of different claims based on a lot of different lines of evidence. You can't "believe"...

06 Apr, 2020|

Endless debates about climate change are just wasting time and preventing us from taking action.

This claim is like someone saying when you’re lost in the woods you shouldn’t waste time debating which way to...

06 Apr, 2020|

The low-carbon transition is one of the greatest economic opportunities of our generation and we need to make sure Canada is at the forefront of it.

Great, if it’s an economic opportunity then we don’t need to force it on people through big-government regulations, they’ll choose...

06 Apr, 2020|

The science is telling us we have to act now to stop climate change.

Can you be more specific? Which science? And what action? This response isn’t nitpicking, it’s a serious request. Please show...

06 Apr, 2020|

The science is clear: Canada faces a climate crisis

If climate change is a crisis, then everything is a crisis. The most that can be said is that many...

06 Apr, 2020|

97% of the world's scientists agree that climate change is a crisis, so why should I believe you?

No such survey has ever been taken so you should stop believing whoever told you that factoid. There have been...

06 Apr, 2020|

Canada needs to continue to show global leadership on the climate issue. Now is not the time to turn our back on the progress we've made since Rio in 1992.

By "leadership" do you mean mindlessly following the crowd in the same futile and costly gestures we've been stuck with...

06 Apr, 2020|

A new study shows that, if we don’t make deep carbon emission cuts, climate change could cost X city/region/country $Y billion/trillion/quillion/bazillion dollars by the end of the century.

Fill in the X and Y and this claim gets repeated ad nauseum around the world, based on glossy consultant...

06 Apr, 2020|

By causing a climate crisis you have stolen our children’s future.

Every age has its share of doomsters who are convinced the end is nigh. Somehow the modern version of this...

06 Apr, 2020|