Category Archives: Climate Change
The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics
(June 24, 2011) The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming skeptics. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: NASA scientist reverses sunspot prediction, bolstering global cooling theory
(June 17, 2011) Five years ago, NASA’s David Hathaway predicted that the Sun was about to enter an unusually intense period of sunspot activity. Today, Hathaway believes his earlier prediction was wrong. This comes amid a flurry of other reports, including from scientists at the U.S. National Solar Observatory (NSO) and U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, indicating that global cooling, and perhaps even a new Little Ice Age, is on its way. Continue reading
Aldyen Donnelly: BCAA’s conclusions about hybrid vehicles
(June 14, 2011) After one spends a little time calculating paybacks for different vehicle purchase options under different energy and vehicle price, tax, emission rating and purchase incentive scenarios, it becomes obvious that any tax measures intended to change consumer energy use should focus on car purchase and annual re-registration, not fuel purchases. Continue reading
Economic model underlying green energy not sustainable, says Guelph economist
(June 9, 2011) GUELPH – An economist at the University of Guelph says if Ontario’s experiment with green energy is similar to what’s happened in the European Union (EU), the province can look forward to higher taxes, a net loss of jobs, and little difference in terms of green house gas emissions. Glenn Fox is a director of Energy Probe. Continue reading
Urban Renaissance Institute 