The Alberta Climate Plan: Is Ezra Levant Right?
Not when he says the oil companies don't represent the oil companies, but in his generally negative attitude towards the whole thing? Well, let's play Devil's advocate for a minute.…
Anthropogenic Global Warming
As I Stare at My Smoke-Clouded Sky, a Thought or Two About Tipping Points
A tipping point isn’t that instant when water begins pouring over the canoe’s gunwale. The tipping point is actually before that, when the canoe is heeling over and can’t be…
IPCC Chair Rajendra K Pachauri Steps Down
The right thing to do, whatever the truth of the sexual harassment charges against him. And in this case it was starting to look like there might have been some…
Arctic Gateway Route Relies On Global Warming To Thin The Ice
Stymied by opposition on the West Coast, the Alberta government has prepared a technical report outlining the possibility of an “arctic gateway” as an alternative means of getting their bitumen…
Mark Steyn Hires A Spy
As my readers may know, conservative political commentator Mark Steyn is in some legal trouble, having gotten himself sued by climate scientist Mike Mann. While we should be careful to…
UK Climate Change Deniers Forced To Clean Up Act?
The GWPF are an organized group of AGW denialists based in the UK. They are fronted by the notorious Benny Peiser, and are known more widely for the fact that…
Mann Vs. Steyn: Steve McIntyre Weighs In
I’ve written fairly extensively on the topic of Michael Mann’s defamation case against Mark Steyn. Earlier this month, having fired, or been fired by, his lawyers, Mark Steyn appealed to…
The Cult of Living Large
2015, we’re told, is the year the developed world (that’s us) and the emerging economies (China, India, etc., etc., etc.) will close ranks to formulate an effective plan of action…
Cognitive Dissonance is a Lousy Political Platform, Even for the Liberals.
Cognitive dissonance occurs when an entity embraces two or more contradictory beliefs or values at the same time. As social psychologist Leon Festinger showed, cognitive dissonance in an individual leads…
Global Warming Denier James Delingpole Gets Ass Booted Out Door
Word is the UK Telegraph (the Torygraph, as they call it) felt he was an embarrassment. And of course, in his sign-off column he admits he knew nothing about science.…
Copernicus Publishing Terminates Pattern Recognition In Physics
Here’s what you see when you go to the home page of the journal Pattern Recognition In Physics: It looks like I may have been wrong about this being a…
On Pattern Recognition In Physics
Pattern Recognition In Physics (PRP, I’ll call it) is a new, open access journal devoted to “experimental and applied aspects of pattern analysis, extraction, classification and clustering in all branches…
Speaking Of Losing Your Lawyer: Mark Steyn Has Lost His in Mann v. National Review
A print-screen from a recently filed motion (its only two pages long): One can only speculate. But Steyn has, as Ezra Levant sometimes does, kept up with the abuse once…
Kinder Morgan Pipeline: Might Be A Little Problem With That
Seventy-three per cent of the proposed new routing will follow existing rights-of-way. About 980 kilometres of new pipe would need to be constructed. According to my calculations, Kinder Morgan will…
A Couple Of Polls On CDN Pipelines
From Forum, so FWIW: A bit surprising, or at least other polls in B.C. have shown support for NG drifting upward. And, nterestingly enough, opposition to the Keystone XL line…
Tom Adams In Sun: Mostly Sane
There are bits of it I don’t agree with. For instance, any fair reading of Ontario history would show that the province’s dalliance with gas power predates the Green Energy…
Northern Gateway Set To Heat Up
The National Energy Board (NEB) report on the project is set to be released by month’s end. All the media hoopla around the release will occur…wait for it...in Alberta, with…
Denier Down: Lindzen Retires
Climate change skeptic Richard Lindzen, most famous perhaps for arguing that global warming would be naturally offset by the Earth’s adaptive infrared iris ( a theory which has been pretty…
23 Seconds Of Truth
…on the tar-sands, from Alberta’s Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths. Kooky boy thinks this will get the minister in trouble. I don’t pretend to know the politics out there well…
Jonathan Chait’s Puzzling Defense Of Keystone XL
He writes: Keystone is at best marginally relevant to the cause of stopping global warming. The whole crusade increasingly looks like a bizarre misallocation of political attention. My view, which…