Climate Alarmism
Assertions are made claiming that weather extremes are increasing in frequency and severity, spurred on by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Based on such assertions, governments are enacting ever more restrictive regulations on Canadian consumers of energy products, and especially Canada’s energy sector. These regulations impose significant costs on the Canadian economy, and can exert downward pressure on Canadian’s standard of living.
According to the UN IPCC, evidence does suggest that some types of extreme weather have become more extreme, particularly those relating to temperature trends.
However, many types
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Read MoreThe desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through the world’s busiest airfield for international travel.
The state-run WAM news agency called the rain Tuesday “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949.”
Rain also fell in Bahrain, Oman,
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Read MoreIf there is one silver lining in the climate change crisis, it’s that the increasing frequency of catastrophes has made it easier to convince the general population the effects of greenhouse gases are real. Flash floods, record-breaking forest fire seasons, extended heat waves and droughts occurring on a repeated basis have translated into a greater openness on the part of many to support environmental fixes.
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Read MoreFrom nature walks and cleanup efforts to parties for the planet, there are many events happening around Metro Vancouver to honour this blue-and-green ball of stardust we all call home.
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Many of the events are planned for the weekend before or after April 22, so mark your calendars.
Here is a list of just some of the events happening around the region:
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Read MoreA long time ago I became fascinated by the obsession people have that the time they live in is of epic, overwhelming significance. I hunted around for a word that would sum this up. There isn’t one, so I invented my own: chronocentricity. It’s a form of egocentricity, a solipsistic fixation with the notion of one’s own implicit importance by living in a time of importance.
One of the curiosities of chronocentricity is that it is almost always predicated on the belief that the present is self-evidently of especial badness, replete with disasters and an imminent catastrophe of some sort, while what went before was much better.
The present is the worst of times, the past was th
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Read MoreThe world population has hit 8 billion people. If you listen to the media, you might think the apocalypse is just around the corner. Marian Tupy, co-author of Superabundance, says more humans on planet Earth is a good thing. Marian and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit discuss the benefits of a growing population. Find out why more people equals more ideas, more innovation, and a better world.
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Read MoreEuropean motorists are increasingly ‘returning to petrol’ as sales of gasoline powered automobiles continue to rise at the expense of EVs.
That’s the conclusion of analysts pointing to reports that Volkswagen’s European sales of electric vehicles have fallen nearly 25%, according to its latest quarterly results. Meanwhile, its worldwide sales of internal combustion gasoline powered cars rose about 4% in the same period.
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Read MoreThe German government is considering plans to implement new laws that would ban members of the general public from driving privately owned vehicles during the weekends.
The plan was revealed by Germany’s Transport Minister Volker Wissing who argues that the drastic measures may be necessary in order to meet the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” targets for “fighting climate change.”
According to Reuters, Wissing is threatening to introduce the ban through the Summer months before gradually expanding it.
The calls come despite the fact that official data shows that “greenhouse emissions” in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, fell to the lowest level in 70 years in 2023.
Nevertheless, the transport sector has still been consistently failing to meet its “Net Zero” goals.
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Read MoreAn amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2.
The Chinese findings are important in helping destroy the claim that many low-lying islands will simply disappear beneath the waves in the near future due to human-induced climate change. They show how shoreline changes are a persistent and ongoing process that is subject to many natural and human influences.
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Read MoreWealthy households are taking the lion’s share of heat pump subsidies as even with generous taxpayer grants the £13,000 equipment is out of reach for those on lower incomes.
Analysis of government figures found that wealthier regions, including second-home hotspots, were far more likely to take advantage of a £7,500 voucher towards the installation of the green technology.
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