People have been noticing that today's media seems to make every story into a climate crisis, no matter how innocuous, and though the media claim to stand for freedom of speech, devoted to accuracy and the truth, they never seem to publish any dissenting views on climate change at all. If anything, they mock anyone who dares even show a hint of interest in a rational, dissenting view. A recent case is that of a story in the "Daily Skeptic" which related that 1,200 scientists and scholars dispute the claim of a climate emergency. The think tank in question is CLINTEL - the climate intelligence organization based in The Netherlands. An Alberta mayor innocently retweeted the story with the two words "Interesting Article" only to find himself embroiled in a media flare-up, claiming he was supporting denialist, misinformation, forcing him to backtrack. Of most interest to Friends of Science, is that the media managed to smear the mayor for his retweet and to denounce the Daily Skeptic a paper 'that is disinformation clickbait,' but they never interviewed anyone from CLINTEL! Michelle Stirling, Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society, explores journalistic ethics, as written, versus journos in action. She discusses a recent survey done in Canada by a collection of journalist groups, which claimed to show that scientists, journalists and the public want climate change covered as a crisis... but Prof. Emeritus DK Johnson of University of Victoria, a professor of logic and philosophy, shows that the survey was fundamentally flawed in that the journalists made no effort to discover whether there really is a climate crisis or not. What do you think about media coverage. Leave us a comment! We're in our 20th year of operation. If you like the work we do, we are asking if people would give us a $20 donation to help us continue. etransfer: contact@friendsofscience.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wSRWSeZEDw

Ecojustice has taken the Ontario government to court on behalf of a group of youth #GENClimateAction kids. In this, Part 3, we assess the climate claims made in court documents, showing that they are based on outdated science, are misleading or disputed. We show that Ontario's existing Green Energy Act violates Section 15 of the Charter by imposing crippling costs on pensioners. We show that GHG reduction targets are impossible to meet due to mass immigration policies. And we show that while there is warming occurring this does not explain the cause. Ontario is not driving climate change and children should not be exploited for commercial purposes, such as the school wide activist program where Ecojustice's executive director was a board member. This would appear to be an unstated Conflict of Interest. The power point will be posted on our blog for your review. If you like our work, consider a $20 donation or more, to celebrate our 20th year. Etransfers: contact@friendsofscience.org Thank you! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW-PVP1OBiU

On Sept 25, Max Fawcett, former editor of Alberta Oil Magazine wrote an article in Jen Gerson’s new online publication called “The Line” wherein he mocked Premier Kenney for having said that there’s a rising global market for oil, saying that the people in India are trying to move from burning dung to having grid scale power – and that within the next 15 years, they won’t be driving Teslas – and to think otherwise is to be disconnected from reality. The evidence from the IEA shows that Premier Kenney is right, and climate activists are wrong. EVs need power generation - LOTS of it. Even Quebec, with vast hydro resources, could not support an all EV policy. India, with 1.3 billion people, many of whom lack basic power and pumped water/sanitation services, faces hours and days of power blackouts as it is. Even Canada's present EV policy does not have enough power generation to meet the needs of the present EV policy. So what's the game with climate targets that can't be met? Looks like the endgame is a global carbon trading LAW - and that would be a road to ruin. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB5-Z56GGwk

In advance of #COP27, Naomi Klein hosted a webinar on "Egypt's Carceral Climate Summit" along with Bill McKibben of 350.org and some other colleagues. In the webinar, Klein and McKibben tried to tie together political freedom, human rights, and climate change. They advocated for climate youth who would be attending COP27 in Egypt, to do public protests on behalf of people jailed during or after the Arab Spring, which Klein framed as a pro-democracy event. Klein wrote a long piece for The Intercept, which she referred to in her presentation, claiming that having a climate conference in Egypt is a 'moral failing.' In this detailed review, Michelle Stirling, Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society, explains that according to research by NECSI - New England Complex Systems Institute - the "Arab Spring" was actually driven by a huge spike in world food prices. Thus the true 'moral failing' is US climate policies on food-to-fuel ethanol which drove millions of people into poverty and hunger, sparking civil unrest around the world. The issue was and is exacerbated in the Middle East North Africa region (MENA) where youth unemployment is sky high and many people work in the 'informal' economy - with no job security or pensions. However, Egypt has many regional and domestic challenges to address - so their laws and policies are different than those in Western nations. In particular, Michelle warns youth climate activists to be careful to follow the law in Egypt as the consequences of protesting without a permit can be severe. The new 'coal' for climate activists is natural gas, and Egypt happens to be a key supplier of natural gas to the world - a world which desperately needs this supply. Michelle points out that climate activists and climate-obsessed nations are really just modern day colonialists, using climate policies and climate finance as the levers of domination. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16_uYb5YXjk