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Energy Probe on "The Agenda"

Energy Probe
8 Feb 2010

Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon was recently on “The Agenda” discussing the future of climate change in the wake of the failure at Copenhagen to reach a new agreement and the leaked email scandal at the University of East Anglia. Watch the video here.

IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas

Lawrence Solomon
7 Feb 2010
Financial Post

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

Blogger

My stimulus package is greener than yours

Aldyen Donnelly
8 Feb 2010

Talk of Canada’s stimulus package not being as “green” as its American counterpart is way off the mark.

IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!

Lawrence Solomon
8 Feb 2010
Financial 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.


Alternative Energy

Inside Ontario: Ontario Signs a Massive Green Energy Deal with Samsung

Mark Brosens
24 Jan 2010
TVO

A media round-up of the reactions to the renewable energy deal Ontario recently signed with Samsung.

Climate Change

Campus climate orthodoxy

Financial Post
4 Feb 2010
Financial Post

Lawrence Solomon’s column, Keeping Canadian Students In The Dark On Climate, provoked some interesting responses on our online blog, FP Comment, and the National Post’s editorial blog, Full Comment. Some have been reproduced below. They have been edited for grammar. Real names, where available, have been used, but some are signed only with online handles.


Utility Reform

Norman Rubin discusses solar power in Ottawa

Energy Probe
12 Jul 2009
Ottawa Citizen

Energy Probe’s own Norman Rubin was recently quoted in an article in the Ottawa Citizen examining the approval of subsidies for a 200-acre farm in West Carleton, just west of Ottawa. As part of the program, the government will pump at least $100-million for the construction of 300,000 solar panels.