Tom Harris

Ottawa's Suicidal Climate Plans a Cautionary Tale for Governments Everywhere

Politicians leading the City of Ottawa have fallen hook, line and sinker for climate alarmism and, as a consequence, Canada's national capital is on the verge of a deadly self-induced crisis. This is being brought on by their obsession with "stopping climate change," prioritizing it over real world environmental, health, economic and energy supply concerns. The forecast cost of achieving the City's net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 target is astonishing: $57.4 billion to be spent over the three decades between 2020 and 2050, with a present value of $31.8 billion. And this is just the estimated direct cost. The actual cost, including spinoffs, to the Ottawa economy and residents will be significantly higher. And one cannot ever begin to place a dollar value on eliminating people's choices about how they wish to live.

UN Claims to "Climate Truth" Impossible

Missing from most, if not all, coverage of last month's climate science report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was the fact that their most important conclusions are impossible; not merely contested or exaggerated, but literally impossible.  Consider the following from the IPCC full Working Group I report, Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis, issued on August 9:

"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level."

Biden overlooks real climate change moral crisis in debate

In Thursday’s presidential debate, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said, “global warming is an existential threat to humanity. We have a moral obligation to do with it and we’re told by all the leading scientists of the world we don't have much time. We’re going to pass the point of no return with the next eight to ten years.”

Biden can’t have it both ways on Paris climate accord

In his climate change plan Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden says that the United States will “re-enter the Paris Agreement on day one of the Biden Administration.” The former vice-president reassures readers in his “Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice” that he will “not allow other nations, including China, to game the system by becoming destination economies for polluters...”

On Saturday, Switch off Earth Hour

Rather than switch off lights to show their support for Earth Hour on Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30 pm local time, the public should switch off Earth Hour. While the event has expanded from its original focus on the impossible goal of ‘stopping climate change,’ global warming is still a primary rationale.

Environmentalists responsible for much of Australia's bush fire problem

Recent climate change has not caused Australian bushfires. Besides the fact that many of the fires are set by people, either intentionally or by accident, a major cause of Australia's fire problem has been the high 'fuel loads,' underbrush that, left to accumulate over years, acts as a tinder box for bushfires. Craig Kelly, Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives (Hughes, New South Wales), told ITV's Good Morning Britain on January 6:

Cold a harbinger of severe winter to come

The past week has certainly been rough on people across eastern North America. The Washington Post reported on Nov. 13 that “The most severe early November cold snap in more than a century has plowed over the East Coast, where record low temperatures were set in the majority of population centers Wednesday morning.”

Time to Give Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding a 'Tremendous Whack'

On Tuesday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Washington) that it be granted intervenor status concerning the litigation launched by environmental groups against the Trump administration's new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. The case in question, American Lung Association v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 19-1140, concerns attempts by environmental groups to strike down the ACE rule and resurrect the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan (CPP). The Chamber wants to be able to intervene in the case in defence of ACE.

Coal key to National Security Strategy

Energy Secretary Right on Climate Change

Energy Secretary Rick Perry did a remarkable thing last week: he expressed skepticism about the causes of climate change in a TV interview and, even after widespread condemnation from environmentalists and the press, he did it again a few days later before a major Senate committee.

Killing Paris Agreement is not enough

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.”

Trudeau, Trump deliver Earth Day present

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.

Killing Clean Power Plan crucial step in ending climate deception

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.

Pruitt right to call for climate debate

We need leaders in science, engineering, economics, and public policy to contribute to the debate without fear

November 2016 may be the start of global cooling

Climate change pollsters boost climate scare

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.

DiCaprio climate catastrophe film boosts Clinton campaign

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 Flood will 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.

Hillary Clinton and Al Gore are wrong to suggest that global warming causes more extreme weather.

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.”

Judges must understand: climate rules are irrational

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.

GOP must follow Trump's lead on climate change

According to a new survey led by researchers at the University of Michigan, more Americans than ever, about one in five, say they are not sure whether climate change is occurring.