The economic cost of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius would probably exceed the benefits.
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The climate threat is based on computerized models that grossly overstate warming.
Despite the new IPCC report, reality suggests we have plenty of time to manage climate change.
Rational reactions to climate change are undermined by the endless parade of doom-mongers.
As the United States cuts climate regulations, Canada pours them on.
The United States likely won’t mirror Canada’s climate policies.
Since taking office, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has been very aggressive on the climate file. Attempting to remedy what she portrayed as a history of environmental negligence by her predecessors , the premier swiftly increased and expanded Alberta’s carbon tax, placed a hard cap on carbon dioxide emissions, set stiff targets for reducing methane emissions, declared an accelerated phase-out of coal power generation, and promised to replace much of that power with costlier wind or solar power generation.
With the announcement that the Pope may “intervene” in the Paris climate negotiations, the last act of the Great Paris Climate Conference is set.
As I wrote in 2010, these giant climate conferences follow an entirely predictable story arc that goes like this:
1) The media will downplay expectations, and diplomats and environmentalists will bemoan how far behind the process is in producing an agreement.
In the lead-up to the Paris climate summit, massive activist pressure is on all governments, especially Canada’s, to fall in line with the global warming agenda and accept emission targets that could seriously harm our economy.