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Edmonton Canada bests March 10th record low by -12 degrees, columnist questions climate situation
UPDATE: The author’s (Lorne Gunter) claim of breaking the all time March record by -12 degrees is only partially correct. The phrase “smashing the previous March low” should have read…
California’s Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts
Residential electricity prices jumped nearly 12% in 2023 and they are going higher. But the carbon intensity of power generation isn’t falling and low-income ratepayers are subsidizing the rich.
How did Alberta wind up facing blackouts in the extreme cold?
“… at this time of year, we don’t have any solar power … Over the last couple of days, the wind has dropped off dramatically. …”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #583
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Menchen
Biden: Make China Great Again
Guest “You can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton Did Biden really think cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline would force Canada to leave the oil in the ground? 20 January 2021…
Canadian Green Electricity Push Blocked by Alberta
Alberta has invoked the Sovereignty Act to set limits on the exercise of federal power. But the federal government claims there is no legal basis for their actions.
Conservation Officers Misleading the Public about Polar Bear Problems in Churchill
You only have to go back to 2021 to find similar numbers of incidents and bears in the holding facility at the end of week 9
Are the Large Alberta Fires the Result of Climate Change?
In summary, there is little evidence that the Alberta wildfires represent a climate event.
Column: The Humanitarian Horror That ‘Electrify Everything’ Would Unleash
‘Electrify everything’ is a barbaric and stupid concept that, if even partially adopted, will outright kill large swathes of humanity when harsh weather strikes.
Childish Beliefs Drive Lethal Energy and Agricultural Agendas
These ideas, and these policy proponents, are what should be banished from government, media and academic institutions. Not the wondrous technologies that make modern life possible.
Where were the starving W. Hudson Bay polar bears in 2020 if the population had declined by 2021?
This makes it all the more significant that they have provided no actual evidence that WH bears are indeed starving to death in sufficient numbers to substantiate a 40% decline…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #530
A change in one of the variables that describe a system at equilibrium produces a shift in the position of the equilibrium that counteracts the effect of this change.
Canadian Summer Urban Heat Island Effects: Some Results in Alberta
Landsat-based estimates of increased urbanization suggest that this has caused a spurious warming component of reported temperature trends, at least for locations experiencing increased urbanization.
Elites Vs. Blue collar, or Maybe Canada’s Yellow Vest Day: Here’s What the Media Won’t Say About the Truckers Convoy
Interestingly, the more the media and the cultural elites try to disparage the convoy on whatever flimsy grounds they find, the stronger support gets.
CBC Understands the Difference Between Weather and Climate, Other Canadian News Outlets Don’t
What we have across the region is a modest 100 year rise in average temperatures, with no measurable long-term increase in extreme weather events, or above or below average precipitation.…
Conditions Were Not Golden For Polar Bears In The 1980s Despite What Activist Expert Claims
Therefore Amstrup’s statement last week that the 1980s were golden years for polar bears throughout their range was a falsehood he felt was necessary to promote his failed prediction that polar bears…
Irreproducible science and US government regulation
The EPA issues an extraordinary number of regulations, which affect every area of the economy and constrict everyday freedoms. Extensive regulatory schemes can amount to a competitive advantage for large…
How epidemiologists try to fool us with flawed statistical practices
We have just completed a study for the National Association of Scholars [1] that took a deep dive looking at flawed statistical practices used in the field of environmental epidemiology.…
The conundrum of Hudson Bay bears that left shore late in 1983 with video from CBC archives
In 1983, it was claimed that freeze-up of Hudson Bay was so late that polar bears didn’t leave the shore until the 4th of December – several weeks later than…
Speculation on ice-trapped whales: science-based fiction vs. dishonest science
Ice entrapment of whales is known to happen across the Arctic, including Davis Strait and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. How common such phenomena were in the past or might…
Claim: Fracking will increase radon down wind
A paper out of the Harvard School of Public Health makes the claim that “Unconventional oil and natural gas development” will increase “ambient particle radioactivity” down wind. More simply, fracking…
Column: A Stake Through the Heartland – Inflation and Supply Chain Issues Are Greatly Stressing the Country’s Producing Class
But global mismanagement of the fuel system – following very bad advice that the old can be now starved of capital and dismantled because erroneous fanatics have led to believe…