The City of Calgary declared a Climate Emergency in November 2021, premised on claims that the cost of inaction on climate would be too high, and that Calgary's actions would have significant climate impact. The estimated cost of the program is some $87 billion. A year later, in November 2022, the Parliamentary Budget Officer issued a report that showed the cost of inaction on climate is negligible and that even Canada's efforts would not affect climate change; obviously Calgary's even less so. This presentation explores the serious flaws of the Calgary Climate Plan - the reliance on a scenario known as RCP8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathway) which is an implausible socio-economic and climate scenario, but is framed as 'conservative' in the Calgary economic assessment. Calgary faces many real and present challenges. Likewise, NetZero 2030 or 2050 targets are not achievable. This presentation explains why. Burdening our children with debt for dubious 'climate action' projects that will only make green crony capitalists rich and will make ordinary Calgarians poor is contrary to good public policy. Making a plan without proper due diligence as to the likelihood that it is achievable is mismanagement. With the new insights from the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report, it is clear that the Calgary Climate Emergency Declaration must be rescinded and the $87 billion climate plan must be scrapped. Please help us continue to do the due diligence that the City of Calgary has not done. Send us an etransfer to: contact@friendsofscience.org - or join us! Become a member. http://www.friendsofscience.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0rdFavRvMI

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is one of the largest scientific bodies in the world. This year's theme was "Diversity - It's in our DNA"; Michelle Stirling, our Communications Manager shows off her AAAS T-shirt. But their commitment to diversity doesn't seem to include diversity of views on #climate, does it? The cover of the June 2022 edition of the AAAS Science Magazine read "A Choice of Futures - Humanity can still avert a climate catastrophe." That's odd. The latest IPCC Physical Sciences report came out in the summer of 2021, and as Roger Pielke, Jr. reported, they no longer see catastrophe in our future. That's Good News! Why isn't it headline news, especially with the AAAS? How can there be such a drastic switch from fear of a climate emergency and catastrophe, to "Good News! No catastrophe looming?" It turns out that all the catastrophic science papers were using an IMPLAUSIBLE scenario known as RCP8.5 claiming it was 'business-as-usual.' Roger Pielke, Jr. and Justin Ritchie have published a peer-reviewed paper showing how that is misleading and completely inaccurate. The RCP scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathways) were meant for research purposes, not for planning climate policy. Both RCP 8.5 and RCP 6 are implausible - without them, there is no climate emergency, not even in theoretical scenarios. So, back to climate diversity. When will Science Magazine interview Dr. Guus Berkhout of CLINTEL, the organization of more than 1400 scientists and scholars who state there is NO Climate Emergency. That's good news! The Climate Emergency is over. We DO Have Time. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0WsPn0mWnk