Michelle Stirling, Communications Manager for Friends of Science, discusses the use of coal in the world with Dr. Madhav Khandekar. Dr. Khandekar explains that clean coal technology removes almost all particulate matter from the coal plant exhaust, so the use of coal is clean, not dirty. Coal is the most inexpensive energy source for electrical power, so its use is expanding and should be used in Canada. Over a billion people are without access to electricity. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbVmOx-CUxY

Swedish climatologist Hans Jelbring discusses his work on regional greenhouse effects and that the greenhouse effect (caused by carbon dioxide) is not the most predominant factor in climate change. He explains that scientists are expanding their appreciation of the solar system as a whole, with varying external effects on earth's climate. Jelbring is critical of the IPCC and sees its message as more one of religion than science. Dr. Jelbring's Porto presentation is posted here: https://www.portoconference2018.org/presentations--posters.html ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXpuU8L6qhk

Contributed by Ian Cameron, Director for Friends of Science Society ©2024 The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, which became law on June 29, 2021, “enshrines in legislation Canada’s commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.” To date most of the federal government’s focus has been on its 2030 Paris Agreement target of reaching CO2eq emission reductions 40-45% below the 2005 level of 741 Mt (i.e., 2030 net emissions of 445-408 Mt). The government’s first attempt to determine what it would take to reach net-zero was a report released in December 2021 by the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) called Canada’s Energy Future 2021: Energy Supply and Demand Projections to 2050 (EF2021). EF2021 did not explicitly model a net-zero future, which drew criticism and resulted in a directive from the Minister of Natural Resources to the CER to “provide even more data in line with Canada achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.” The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, “one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates,” took note of EF2023 and commissioned David Hughes to use it as the basis for a report, released on February 8, 2024 and called Getting to Net-Zero in Canada – Scale of the problem, government projections and daunting challenges (full 64-page report and 6-page summary). This article in The Tyee quotes Mr. Hughes’ reason for writing Getting to Net-Zero: “My objective is to provide policymakers and the public with an understanding of the scale of the problem so they can appreciate the scale that any solution is going to have to take. Only with understanding and buy-in can the necessary changes be implemented.” CCPA's analysis was brutally realistic. As Mr. Hughes told The Tyee: “We are going to have to accept contraction, unfortunately. It has been a slice. But the math does not work for continuous growth.” In other words, getting to net-zero means an end to economic growth, let alone the 1.4%/year real GDP increase assumed in EF2023. To burnish their climate credentials the minister and his colleagues desperately want to issue press releases and pose for photo-ops showing tangible progress for the commercially useless Pathways Alliance project. What the ministers desperately don’t want is to tell the public that fulfilling their government’s net-zero agenda will entail a quarter century of ever more energy and economic deprivation. Here is a link to the full analysis by Ian Cameron, P. Eng. https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2024/03/15/getting-to-net-zero-in-canada/ Please like, share and subscribe. Support our work with a donation! Etransfers: contact@friendsofscience.org To learn more or to become a member of Friends of Science: www.friendsofscience.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCTSWChezX8

If the media are dedicated to truth and accuracy, and if they are willing to give front page coverage to a frightened, panicked teenager to scare you, why won't they interview the adult scientists of CLINTEL who agree there is no climate emergency? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay3ifN85AIo