Climate Change

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A dying initiative

Lawrence Solomon
22 Feb 2010
National Post

The Western Climate Initiative’s cap and trade market may soon need to be renamed The Canada Climate Initiative.  Full story »

Faith in fission

Lawrence Solomon,
20 Feb 2010
National Post

Environmentalism is the religion of the left, commentators often pronounce: “The Church of the Environment,” as conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer puts it.  Full story »

Is there absolute truth about anything?

Ross Andrews
17 Feb 2010
The Tillsonburg News

Beneath the climate change hysteria are voices urging careful examination of the arguments behind the rush to so-called green energy. Laurie Goldstein is one of these voices. Lawrence Solomon is another. Their columns are attacked by writers of letters to the editor who ignore their messages and spout the original alarms, even after the scientists have been caught cooking the books.  Full story »

The West wants out of the Western Climate Initiative

Lawrence Solomon
14 Feb 2010
National Post

Until this week, the Western Climate Initiative boasted seven U.S. states and four Canadian provinces who were working toward the launch of a regional cap and trade system on Jan 1, 2012.  On Thursday, Arizona formally announced it was backing out of cap and trade. As the state with the fastest rate of emission growth -- 61% between 1990 and 2007 – many feared a body blow to Arizona’s economy if it tried to meet the initiative’s carbon reduction goals.  Full story »

Who am I?

Lawrence Solomon
13 Feb 2010
National Post

Who am I?  Full story »

IPCC faces another desertion -- its own past chair!

Lawrence Solomon
8 Feb 2010
National Post

The past chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced current IPCC chair, now faces criticism from his immediate predecessor, Robert Watson.  Full story »

IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas

Lawrence Solomon
7 Feb 2010
National Post

Climategate is one of many known failings by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Two years ago, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was the world’s most celebrated organization, guardian of the world against the peril of climate change and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for “its outstanding scientific work!”  Full story »

Keeping Canadian students in the dark on climate

Lawrence Solomon
30 Jan 2010
National Post

Climate change is natural. Spending time and money on the issue is largely a waste,” posited Steve Paikin, host of TV Ontario’s The Agenda, to his live studio audience at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies Thursday evening. Paikin’s statement to the students came in the middle of an hour-long debate on climate change in which I participated, along with four other panelists.  Full story »

Global warming dead last in poll

Lawrence Solomon
26 Jan 2010
National Post

A Pew Research Center poll released today shows that few Americans consider global warming to be a top priority, so few that global warming came in dead last among 21 issues.  Full story »