Chris Landsea Dumps Heartland
As readers might know, I have been contacting scientists/academics on the Heartland Institute Expert list and asking if, in light of the Institute’s billboard fiasco, they intend to remain on…
Anthropogenic Global Warming
Heartland/Hudson Senior Fellow Dennis Avery Doubles Down On Billboard Campaign
So, for the past couple of days I have been sending out emails to those scientist/intellectual types on the Heartland Institute’s Expert pages, letting them know that 1) they are…
No Charges Filed Against Gleick
As readers may remember, Peter Gleick is the hydroclimatologist who suckered the Heartland Institute out of some of their budget documents, which act has, directly or indirectly, resulted in HI’s…
Windmills Do Not Cause Global Warming
Contrary to what you might have heard. Instead, this is what happens: …wind turbines mix up the cold and warm layers of air by dragging cold air from the ground…
Canadian Greenhouse Emissions Thrown Off By Bugs
Simon Donner has a couple of posts on Canadian Green House Gas emissions and the government’s spin on them. In the first, he notes that: GHG emissions grew by only…
Polar Bear Potpourri
Recently, the Nunavut government sponsored an aerial survey of the Hudson Bay polar population in which they concluded that: “he bear population is not in crisis as people believed,” said…
The Shoe Is On The Other Foot
OTTAWA — While it has aggressively slammed environmental groups for using foreign dollars to finance a small portion of their budgets, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government is being tight-lipped about…
Suzuki Vs. The Canadian Senate
Amidst all the rhetorical hippy kicking and general wingnuttery in the Senate over Northern Gateway and the tar sands recently (for example Senator Finley and his “It should never be…
Denialists In The Canadian Classroom
In the last couple of weeks, stories in the American media have appeared outlining how the Heartland Institute has been plotting to sneak climate change denialism onto the U.S. K12…
Another Big NO!
The Prince Rupert City Council voted unanimously on Monday night to formally oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, making it the third northern BC local government to do so over…
Heartlandgate: Update
Finally, the story of The Heartland Institute’s attempt to infiltrate the American school system and teach kids to deny science has reached Canadian news outlets. Meanwhile, two days into scandal,…
Canucks On Heartland Institute Payroll
DeSmog Blog has dropped the bomb: leaked documents from the Heartland Institute outlining their campaign against the science of AGW. Goals include hiring a fellow named David Wojick to write…
They Believe
Joe Oliver was asked during QP yesterday whether he “believed” in Global Warming, and seemed to suggest that it was all a matter of theology. Not good. MERX is Canada’s…
Climate Scientists Send In The Lawyers
Climate Science Legal Defense Fund Gets New Backing PEER Sponsors Effort to Counter Fossil-Fueled Attacks on Climate Scientists Washington, DC — The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) has found…
Denier Defunded
The much-criticised author and climate policy sceptic Bjorn Lomborg has told the Ecologist he is the victim of a vendetta after his funding was cut by the Danish government. Bjorn’s…
We’re Number 9!
Nine of the ten hottest years on record have been since 2000. 2011 was the ninth hottest year on record, and those records go back 130 years. Just a reminder.…
RUMOUR: Trojan Brand Will Avoid Tar Sands Fuel When Shipping Condoms
…in an attempt to reduce company’s carbon foot-print! What will the folks at Ethical Oil do about this latest outrage? PS. Real easy to find pictures of prophylactic wrapped bananas…
Gruending On Canadian Churches, Climate Change, And Durban
Its all good, but my favorite bit is about how The National Post felt it necessary to spike Rex Murphy’s geriatric rage at the fact a mere African might dare…