Ross McKitrick, professor of economics at the University of Guelph and co-author of “Taken by Storm” explains that there has been a ‘pause’ in global warming. Climate models predicted there would be warming – but temperatures have flat-lined for the past 15 years or so. He points out there is probably a flaw in climate models. See the whole series to understand the implications for climate policy. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqocG8F3BJk
Quebec is seen as a 'clean, green' society, dedicated to hydro power and attaining climate goals. Robert Lyman points out that Quebec's climate policies are filled with contradictions and impossible targets. Read the full report in English: https://tinyurl.com/y9yu72wf
or the French version:: https://tinyurl.com/ybqk66qy
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Over 70,000 climate activists, government leaders and influencers are at COP28 - the big UN Climate Conference - set in fabulous Dubai, a miracle city that rises from the desert. One of the main objectives for activists is to phase out fossil-fuels to allegedly stop global warming. Imagine their shock when the president of this year's COP Conference, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, said that there is 'no science' behind demands for the phase-out of fossil fuels! Of course this rather spoiled the party for the activist set; some had been dreaming of crushing Big Oil and Big Natural Gas; other had been planning to put a wealth or giant carbon dioxide pollution tax on Big Oil and Big Natural Gas; others had been dreaming of how to force Big Oil and Big Natural Gas to finance the triple the renewables demanded by activists; other want to impose a global carbon tax LAW. No matter how you look at it, they are all using the fantasy claims of a climate catastrophe to try and pick the pockets of energy corporations, and to make ordinary people poor by driving up the cost of everything through these draconian energy taxes. This video explainer walks through some of what the reactions were and also gives people a glimpse of the energy and materials that went into the building of the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, surely the most prominent reference to the miracles that hydrocarbons help humans create. But the climate cult is not amused by Sultan al-Jaber's comments and are just digging in their heels. Please support our work. Subscribe, like and share our videos. Joins us! Become a member or donate: https://friendsofscience.org/
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Historian Dr. Tammy Nemeth discusses the role of energy in global geopolitics. Alberta is rich in fossil fuels, making it a target for competitor nations or competing interests. Is the Tar Sands Campaign, which has blocked oil pipelines and smeared Alberta's reputation actually a "Green Trade War"? Dr. Nemeth notes it is important for Canadians to better appreciate how energy geopolitics affect us. She notes that it seems the Tar Sands Campaign will actually weaken the US in terms of energy security, especially as the US turns to OPEC for more supply, rather than Canada, a friendly neighbour with the third largest oil reserves in the world. Dr. Nemeth also addresses the curious 'stranded assets' hypocrisy of Mark Carney who claimed companies would go bankrupt, but then his company, Brookfield, invested in oil pipelines here and abroad.
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Bank of Canada (BoC) released its first climate risk report in April 2023. Why is the BoC fiddling with climate change when it should be addressing monetary policy? Well - this is where the cool kids hangout. Everyone wants to be a climate astrologer ever since Greta Thunberg became so famous, even BoC Governor Tiff Macklem, it seems. The BoC's claims about catastrophic climate risk come from the use of wildly exaggerated and implausible scenarios, as explained by Prof. Jessica Weinkle in testimony to the US Senate. Prof. Weinkle shows that the whole area of climate risk analysis in the banking, finance and insurance sectors are fraught with extraordinary Conflicts of Interests, with lead IPCC researchers acting as consultants, and management institutions citing research, as if independent, that their own people wrote; that green billionaires with vested interests in renewables are funding the development of scenario models...etc etc. In the BoC climate risk report, they claim they have reached 100% renewables because they bought carbon offsets from Bullfrog Power. However, this is only for the electricity in their buildings in Ontario and Quebec, both already fairly 'clean' hydro/nuclear power grids. What about the heating of these buildings? No offsets and not 100% renewable! Certainly Catherine McKenna's UN High-level Expert Group group will be out to get the BoC for this kind of lack of integrity and greenwashing. Bank of Canada is wasting your tax dollars on this nonsense while many of you are in line-ups at the food bank. Bank of Canada is greenwashing the public on climate change, using scenarios fraught with Conflict of Interest that are wildly implausible. There's no climate emergency, except in the minds of the people running these conflict-of-interest climate house of cards schemes. Please like, subscribe and share this with everyone you can think of. You can help and support us with an etransfer: contact@friendsofscience.org Thank you!
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Michelle Stirling say climate policies will cost us about a billion dollars per day globally for no observable benefit. Climate is not something that we can control. One message: "CO2 is not a control knob that can fine tune climate".
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Author Steve Goreham discusses the costs of wind and solar being added to the grid and how consumers pay in two ways – for subsidies and through much higher electricity rates. In the US, electric power rates in 9 of 12 wind states went up 12 to 35% from 2008 to 2015, while in the same time overall US power prices rose only 4.8%. He explains that South Australia is now seeing wide area blackouts due to unreliability related to wind power on the grid and simultaneous coal phase-out. Steve’s full presentation can be seen at: Climate Science and the Myths of Renewable Energy: https://youtu.be/mtHreJbr2WM
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In a recent CBC article, Aaron Wherry examines "The Inescapable Math of Climate Change." In this, the second part of a three part series, Michelle Stirling, Friends of Science Communications Manager, takes "A Closer Look at the Inescapable Math of Climate Change at CBC" and finds many errors in their calculations. Part one looked at CBC's failure to note that China emits in one month, what Canada emits in a year and a half. In part two, Michelle discusses three points that CBC reported as being priorities, as stated by Dale Beugin of the Canadian Climate Institute. Canadian Climate Institute is 97.81% government funded. The three items are 1) Contracts-for-difference; 2) building a bigger, better electricity grid; and 3) creating emissions certainty for oil and gas. Michelle deconstructs the faulty logic and shows that CBC's claim that building out the power grid as 'easy' is unattainable in any short measure of time. Likewise, reducing oil and gas production will drastically reduce revenues to government, which pay for health care, education and infrastructure. Please like, subscribe and share our work. You can donate or join us online, or send an etransfer to: contact@friendsofscience.org
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A rally was held on November 5, 2016 in downtown Calgary at the McDougall Centre against the Alberta Climate Plan and the carbon tax. Part 2.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-MPLgHyFxk
Award-winning Dutch filmmaker Marijn Poels was in Alberta, Canada for Friends of Science Society's 15th Annual Event where he spoke about his film "The Uncertainty Has Settled" and his work in developing nations. A progressive, left-wing person, Poels explains that climate change is not a priority for anyone in the world, and that according to a study by Bjorn Lomborg, the real serious issues of poverty, homelessness, agricultural land degradation, could be solved by simply using the money presently wasted on climate change, could address and mostly solve real world problems within a decade. Watch Marijn's self-financed movie "The Uncertainty Has Settled" - rent it on VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theuncertaintyhassettled
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