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China Dialogue fails to objectively review the scientific debate about global warming in the environmental best seller, The Deniers, by Lawrence Solomon of Energy Probe, Canada's top energy industry watchdog. Probe International calls the author's response a "must read" for Chinese environmentalists, lawmakers, and scholars.

Response to China Dialogue review  read more »

If you think the causes of the financial crisis are complicated, just wait until we start trading carbon.  read more »

My American friends believe that, after Barack Obama becomes president, America will once again be loved around the world. They are wishful thinkers.

Anti-Americanism didn’t begin with George Bush and it won’t end with an Obama presidency. With rare exceptions, America has always inspired hatred and contempt, and for reasons that aren’t about to go away. Those who expect America’s haters to convert on November 4 need to get out more.  read more »

The next commodity to collapse will be mass-marketed environmentalism, which will come to be disdained.  read more »

Energy Probe's Lawrence Solomon has been recognized by the Annual Heritage Toronto Awards with a nomination for his 2007 book, Toronto Sprawls.  read more »

'Cut back on carbon emissions," the Third World is lectured. "It's for the good of the planet and it's for your own good, too. Don't point fingers at the West's carbon emissions. Don't protest that you'd like your share of automobiles and air conditioners. Don't tell us that you know what's in your own self-interest. Just do as your told, or we'll punish you."

These threats are sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit, always arrogant. Carbon has become a club with which to discipline the Third World.  read more »

In yet another sign that the Earth could be heading in to a period of global cooling, NASA reports that the solar wind is now at a 50-year low, the lowest that NASA has seen. This change in solar activity, which began to occur about a decade ago, coincides with the end of the climb in global temperatures that had been underway for decades.

"What we're seeing is a long term trend, a steady decrease in pressure that began sometime in the mid-1990s," explains Arik Posner, NASA's Ulysses Program Scientist in Washington DC.  read more »

With energy prices soaring, is this the right time to lock into a fixed-rate gas contract or should you stick with the floating rate offered by your utility?  read more »

The public debate on oil sands fails to recognize that restoration is possible and not that expensive.  read more »

Russia's energy supplies enabled their aggression, Canada's supply could be the placating alternative.

"When it comes to action over Georgia, Russia has the European Union over a barrel. In fact, 1.2 million barrels. That's how much Russian crude is pumped westward every day down the Druzhba pipeline to fuel Europe's economies."  read more »

Wikipedia, the community-edited encyclopedia that anyone can revise, is one of the Web's biggest success stories. What you may not know is that it also has become an important player in the political world.

Started in 2001 on a shoestring budget, Wikipedia now ranks as the ninth most popular Web site in the U.S., according to Internet ratings company Alexa.com, outpacing such "old media" stalwarts as CNN, ESPN and the New York Times. (It's even more popular worldwide, where it is currently the seventh most-read site.)  read more »

Oil imports are destroying the U. S., say a rising tide of alarmists in the U. S., chief among them T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil man turned wind power developer. "It is a clear and growing threat to our national security, and our national economy," he testified to the U. S. Senate. "It has to be stopped. We are on the verge of losing our Super Power status."  read more »

Those who view the Sun, and not CO2, as a driver of temperatures on Earth look to various measures of solar activity for explanations of climate change. For one such measure -- radio waves from the Sun, or solar flux -- they look to Canada's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in the Okanagan valley, near Penticton, British Columbia. What they find supports the view that another Little Ice Age could be coming.  read more »

Ontario is delaying by three months a decision on which company will build a new nuclear plant at Darlington to give bidders -- including Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. -- more time.

A radioactive part was missing for almost two months at the Bruce nuclear plant before a worker walking through an area called "the vault" discovered the problem after his radiation detector went off.  read more »

India loves the UN's climate change policies and so does India's representative at the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri.

Why the love-in? The Indian government's new "National Action Plan on Climate Change," which Pachauri helped craft, plainly explains why: The UN formally establishes that global warming is a matter of secondary importance to India, allowing the world’s largest democracy to pursue its own best interests.  read more »

"The international trade in nuclear materials and technology is inherently and uniquely fraught with long-term hazards to world peace and security."  read more »

Life sciences company MDS Inc. has launched a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and the federal government after a decision to cancel a 12-year-old project to build new nuclear reactors for producing medical isotopes.

Norm Rubin, director of nuclear research at Energy Probe, said any deal the federal government makes to privatize AECL will probably involve taxpayers taking on any potential liabilities from the lawsuit.  read more »

Two weeks ago, a parent-teacher council blamed the online research source Wikipedia for falling test scores in Scotland.

On Tuesday, Canadian columnist Lawrence Solomon blamed Wikipedia for helping to spread global warming hysteria around the world.  read more »

Ever wonder how Al Gore, the United Nations, and company continue to get away with their claim of a "scientific consensus" confirming their doomsday view of global warming? Look no farther than Wikipedia for a stunning example of how the global-warming propaganda machine works.  read more »

May Warming warning

NOW magazine, May 15-21  read more »

Lawrence Solomon: Airing the dubious science of global warming 

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On a tour earlier this week for his new book on global warming, The Deniers, Lawrence Solomon made a presentation at the Petroleum Club in Calgary. His remarks, adapted, appear below.  read more »

Studies are being done to monitor the impacts of wind turbines on landscape ecology and wildlife, such as birds and bats.

According to the Ministry of Natural Resources' Ontario Wind Atlas, winds off of Lake Superior blow more incessantly than anywhere else in the province.

As the province ramps up its supply of "green" energy, the 126 turbines spinning in Prince Township are likely a harbinger of more to come -- and a storm of debate over the pros and cons of harvesting power from the wind.  read more »

Regina: Mother earth "is doing wonderfully,'' despite alarmist reports about global warming and unfounded warnings about pending environmental catastrophes, a Regina audience was told Wednesday.

Lawrence Solomon, an author and newspaper columnist who has long been involved in environmental issues and organizations, said there is no scientific proof global warming is caused by the burning of carbon-based fuels.  read more »

Nanosolar's breakthrough technology is 10 times more powerful than a nuclear reactor and cheaper, too.  read more »

The CBC Radio series, "The Hydrogen Solution," features a debate between Energy Probe's Norm Rubin and hydrogen expert David Sanborn Scott. This debate is now available for download online, via podcast.

To recap:

THE HYDROGEN SOLUTION

Ideas, CBC Radio One

Energy is not just a fuel. It’s an entire system that links our civilization together, says David Sanborn Scott, a hydrogen energy  read more »

Critics of the provincial government's decision to expand the Darlington nuclear station have zeroed in not on safety or environmental concerns but on potential cost overruns.

The original Darlington plant, completed in 1993, was "wildly overbudget," said Lawrence Solomon of the anti-nuclear Energy Probe, citing an original cost estimate of $2.5 billion and comparing it with the final bill of $14.4 billion.  read more »

On Saturday, June 21, Norman Rubin of Energy Probe appeared on Global TV's "Focus Ontario" to discuss the proposed Darlington B new nuclear build with host Sean Mallen and Murray Elston of the Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA).

The appearance in full is captured at the Focus Ontario website, listed here:
www.canada.com/globaltv/ontario/features/focus_ontario/video.html

We've done a disservice. I'm talking about the media, in the aggregate, about global warming.

We skim over uncertainty inherent in predictions. The perils we face, not from potential catastrophes, but from over reach, we discount. If we did the same for hurricanes, tourism would be harmed every time a storm formed off Africa.

We would be placed in a "cone of uncertainty" for weeks at a time, scaring off potential visitors.  read more »

Ontario's Liberal government will soon announce the construction of new nuclear reactors, likely at the site of the existing reactors at the Darlington A station near Toronto. If history is any judge, the construction of those reactors will not be smooth, and may not happen at all.  read more »

With less heat and less carbon dioxide, the planet could become less hospitable and less green.

Planet Earth is on a roll!  read more »

How does the third world insure itself against Lieberman-Warner?

Senators Joseph Lieberman (I., Conn.) and John Warner (R., Va.) base their proposed Climate Security Act legislation on two fundamental premises: That there is a scientific consensus on global warming and that, even if the scientists are wrong and the global-warming risk never materializes, we will at least have aided the environment.  read more »

The World Madness Institute's Transportation Division recently released a report claiming that most North American commuters are huge supporters of public transit -- for others, not themselves.

The surveyors interviewed 10,000 people and discovered that 77 per cent of Americans and 89 per cent of Canadians wanted their municipal governments to either introduce or expand their local light rail transit system. They were almost unanimous in wanting to get everyone else's cars off the road to cut their own travel times.  read more »

You probably haven’t heard much of Solar Cycle 24, the current cycle that our sun has entered, and I hope you don’t. If Solar Cycle 24 becomes a household term, your lifestyle could be taking a dramatic turn for the worse.  read more »

"Scepticism and the questioning of orthodoxies must be an integral part of the scientific process."

A new book shows that some of those labelled ‘the deniers’ of global warming, and depicted as oil-funded crooks, are in fact sensible, respectable scientists. Why have they been made into heretics?  read more »

Lawrence Solomon works for Energy Probe, a Canadian environmentalist group dedicated to opposing the nuclear-power industry. Mr. Solomon also writes a weekly column for Toronto's National Post and is aligned to the Urban Renaissance Institute. One, therefore, might consider him a tried-and-true believer in the concept of man-made global warming. And yes, he was.  read more »

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Nuclear power has been an economic failure, despite being larded with subsidies and shorn of liabilities that face its competitors. Oil price hikes have not made it economic, either.   read more »

The Deniers received special mention on the "Political Grapevine" segment of "Special Report with Brit Hume":

"A man described as an anti-nuclear, 1970s peace activist who opposes subsidies to the oil industry has written a book challenging conventional wisdom about global warming. Lawrence Solomon lays out arguments on both sides -- including information that often goes unreported in the mainstream media.  read more »

An anti-nuclear, Toronto-based, urban-loving, 1970s peace activist who opposes subsidies to the oil industry might be the last person expected to detail cracks in the science of global warming.

But Lawrence Solomon has done just that in a short book with a long subtitle: The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, And Fraud (And Those Who Are Too Fearful To Do So).  read more »

In an opinion piece for the Washington Times, columnist Wesley Pruden looks at new Republican converts to "global-warming hysteria," including President Bush and John McCain.  read more »

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Freeman Dyson is one of the world’s most eminent physicists. Please click on above image for an enlarged picture.

That’s the number of scientists who are outraged by the Kyoto Protocol’s corruption of science  read more »

All three U.S. presidential hopefuls have made global warming a high-profile issue in their campaigns. In this they are out of step with the broad electorate, which ranks global warming well down the scale of important issues. The public's increasing skepticism is particularly surprising given the overwhelming air time that the press has given to the notion that global warming spells doom.  read more »

Political blog runs quotes from The Deniers.

The Orange County political blog, Orange Punch, has launched its very own Deniers series, featuring extracts from the Lawrence Solomon book, “The Deniers The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution and fraud”.

Orange Punch is currently running an ongoing series of quotes from scientists Solomon features in his book.  read more »

The U.S. doesn’t have a market for the nighttime power surplus that nuclear inevitably produces.

"If France can produce 80% of its electricity with nuclear power, why can’t we?,” asks U.S. presidential candidate John McCain. Nuclear power is a cornerstone of Senator McCain’s plan to combat climate change, which he is unveiling this week.  read more »

US presidential candidates John McCain and Hilary Clinton vow to combat man-made climate change by curbing America's CO2 emissions. They also vow to give American drivers a tax holiday this summer by suspending the federal gas tax. Voters are upset at the price they must pay at the pump.  read more »

Foreign Policy/Prospect lists the world's top 100 public intellectuals, "the thinkers who are shaping the tenor of our time," as it describes them. Now it's up to us to select the best from among them, by choosing our five favourites.

Most of the intellectuals on offer, I confess, are unknown to me. The rest I divide into those I admire, or not.  read more »

Fred Singer, one of the world’s renowned scientists, believes in Martians. I discovered this several weeks ago while reading his biography on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. “Do you really believe in Martians?” I asked him last week, at a chance meeting at a Washington event. The answer was “No.”  read more »

Coal is back, despite -- and perhaps also because of -- attempts to beat it back.

Britain abandoned coal big time after Maggie Thatcher privatized the energy industry system in the 1980s. With the energy industry forced to meet market tests, coal fields were shut down, coal-fired power plants were shut down, and coal-related emissions plummeted. Economic efficiency worked wonders for both the economy and the environment.  read more »

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