Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition at [url=http://www.icsc-climate.com]http://www.icsc-climate.com[/url].
If President Donald Trump merely pulls the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, it will be like cutting the head off a dandelion. It will look good for a while until equally bad agreements quickly grow back when a Democrat occupies the White House again. Trump needs to dig up the roots of Paris—the 1992 U.N. climate treaty—if he is to keep his campaign promise to “stop all payments of the United States tax dollars to UN global warming programs.”
During a week of contentious trade issues between Canada and the United States, it was gratifying to see that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump actually did agree on one point--climate change was not even worth mentioning in their official Earth Day statements.
President Donald Trump is right to kill the hugely expensive Clean Power Plan (CPP). After all, it only controls carbon dioxide (CO2), which is simply plant food. The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change cites over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies showing that rising atmospheric CO2 enhances productivity of forests and grasslands. Commercial greenhouses run at up to about four times the outside level of CO2 to boost plant growth.
Imagine that a national public opinion poll were conducted asking:
“Do you support allowing criminal aliens into Canada?”
Imagine also that the results of this survey were cited as an indicator of the receptiveness of Canadians to immigrants.
In an apparent attempt to bolster support for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio is releasing a new climate change movie just days before the election. To be broadcast in 45 languages in 171 countries, Before the Floodwill debut at 9 pm EDT this Sunday on the National Geographic Channel. It will also be available for free on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, and Hulu.
Re: Hillary blaming Donald Trump for the weather: ‘Thar She Blows’
Hillary Clinton and Al Gore are wrong to suggest that global warming causes more extreme weather.
In 2012 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asserted that a relationship between global warming and wildfires, rainfall, storms, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events has not been demonstrated.
In 2013 the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change explained, “in no case has a convincing relationship been established between warming over the past 100 years and increases in any of these extreme events.”
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments in the litigation over President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). If implemented, CPP regulations will require states to develop and bring into force plans to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants.
According to a new survey led by researchers at theUniversity of Michigan, more Americans than ever, about one in five, say they are not sure whether climate change is occurring.
In February, the draconian California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016, Senate Bill 1161, was introduced by Democratic senators Ben Allen, Hannah-Beth Jackson and Mark Leno. Unbelievably, it passed both the state Senate’s environmental and judiciary committees.
The climate activist group, 350.org, released a video on May 18 which starts:
"The Canadian government has announced it will work with provinces, territories, First Nations, and people across the country to develop a national climate strategy by the end of 2016 to determine how Canada will tackle climate change in the upcoming years."
Public opinion polls are regularly cited by politicians and activists to support government action on climate change. Yet these surveys rarely make meaningful contributions to the public policy debate since they ask about issues that do not matter, while ignoring issues that do matter.
With the release of their first federal budget on Tuesday, the Trudeau government demonstrated that they are past masters at climate change doublespeak. This is worrisome because of their intense focus on the issue. The phrase “climate change” appears 43 times in the Budget, more than twice as often as “defence.” “Poverty” appears 13 times and, strangely, “terrorism” appears only three times.
Imagine pro-tobacco groups wanted to participate in fund raising marches for cancer research. ‘We want to help defeat cancer too,’ the tobacco advocates announce.
Over the past 20 years, the Government of Canada has spent millions of dollars sending representatives to United Nations climate change conferences. While the rest of us are told to walk, bicycle, and take the bus more to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions, hundreds of civil servants have enjoyed tax payer funded flights to exotic locations across the globe to take part in U.N. negotiations to ‘save the climate.’
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives and many of our industry leaders are unwittingly among Premier Wynne’s greatest allies in her imposition of ‘carbon pricing.’ While their complaints about massive costs and job losses are correct, they undermine their own position and help that of Wynne by accepting, even promoting, the foundation of the Liberals’ plans: the premise that we can control Earth’s climate merely by adjusting our CO2 emissions.
On Saturday, April 11, what promises to be the largest climate change demonstration in Canadian history will descend on Quebec City. The "Act on climate" march, organized by the David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace and other activist groups, shows how the environmental movement has let climate campaigners take centre stage. This is unfortunate.
When local resident Dan Black brought up the uncertainty in the science backing the Wynne government's plans for 'carbon' pricing at the March 11 climate change town hall in Ottawa, the reaction from activists in the audience was fierce. It was as if Black had questioned a sacred religious belief.
“Join Olympians and snow and ski specialists for thought-provoking discussion on the challenges we face today and the future of snow sports,” proclaimed the Ecology Ottawa (EO) announcement advertising their event on Wednesday at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition at [url=http://www.icsc-climate.com]http://www.icsc-climate.com[/url].
