Tom Harris

The gods must be laughing

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.

Putting the fox in charge of the henhouse

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."

Climate change surveys still useless

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.

Budget thick in green propaganda

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.

Marching with the enemy

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.

Canada skips important climate conference

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.’

The PCs must stop promoting the climate scare

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.

Premiers should ignore climate demonstrators

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.

Government hides climate change uncertainties

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.

Only politically correct science ‘relevant’ in Ecology Ottawa global warming event

“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.

Redford must expose Gore’s climate fears as nonsense in Friday's meeting

Alberta premier Alison Redford has promised to take Al Gore to task at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday for “providing information to people that isn’t accurate” concerning the oil sands.

Conservative MP Braid must learn from real scientists before speaking out on climate change

Appearing on CBC News Network's Power and Politics on Monday, Conservative MP (Kitchener-Waterloo) and Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Communities, Peter Braid linked recent extreme weather events to climate change. This was a serious mistake.

Developed world not responsible for natural disasters

An analysis released in October by the San Francisco-based Climate Policy Initiative revealed that every day in 2012, $1 billion was spent across the world on 'climate finance'. But that incredible sum is not nearly enough, according to delegates at the recent United Nations climate conference in Warsaw. Far greater funding is needed to save the world from what UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls the "greatest threat facing humanity."

Philippines’ typhoon tragic, but not our fault

In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, opinion leaders across the world are arguing that we will see more frequent and more severe extreme weather due to man-made global warming. This makes no sense. If increasing greenhouse gas emissions were to cause the world to warm significantly, an unlikely scenario, temperatures at high latitudes are forecast to rise the most, reducing the difference between arctic and tropical temperatures. Since this differential drives weather, we should see less extreme weather in a warmer world, not more.

New UN Climate Report Ignores Reality

There’s an old saying that when presenting a legal case, if the facts are on your side, “pound the facts,” but if the facts are against you, “pound the table.” The report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on September 27th is an obvious example of pounding the table.

Rep. McKinley leads the way with unbiased climate panel

Last month, U.S. Rep. David McKinley (R.-WV) hosted an unbiased climate change panel discussion in Fairmont, West Virginia. Experts from both sides of the climate debate participated without restrictions of any kind.

Canadian PM must be held to account for dangerous climate change policy

Canadians are frustrated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s non-answer to critical questions about the world-wide climate change agreement his government supports. Those attending his presentation to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City on Thursday should ask the Prime Minister why he promotes what is in effect another Kyoto Protocol, even though he condemns the first protocol as worse than useless.

Peter Kent’s Earth Day gift to Canadians: 24 hours without the climate scare

Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent gave us an unexpected gift on April 22: his Earth Day speech focused on real environmental protection and included nothing at all about climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide.

Steel yourselves to attacks from enviro-extremists, don’t surrender, advises air force vet

World War II Lancaster bomber pilot "Sandy" Mutch says that the Harper government should not be surprised that they were angrily attacked by climate campaigners last week when Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver expressed doubt about the severity of man-made global warming.

Feeding the fire that threatens to burn down our economy

It is bad enough that the Alberta government misleads its public about the supposedly settled science of climate change. But in mid-March, they took the same flawed message to the United States in one of the worst public relations mistakes of all time: supporting the climate scare in America’s premier newspaper, the New York Times. When Alberta Premier Alison Redford travels to Washington D.C. in April to lobby for the Keystone XL Pipeline, she must say nothing that would support the controversial idea that humanity’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing dangerous climate change. After all, the ultimate aim of climate activists is to end our use of fossil fuels. Why would a province that derives most of its income from those resources support a movement that is trying to kill the market for the same resources?