CBC, Canada’s National (i.e. taxpayer funded) Broadcaster for some unfathomable reason – albeit perhaps known to Gaia knows who(m?!) – does not appear to have published anything about IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri since its December 1, 2014 churning of an AP piece, in which CBC had dutifully featured (via sidebar, no less): Climate change impacts…
A few days ago, I came across a tweet from Nic Rivers, who is part of the truth-challenged Stewart Elgie‘s enviro-activist shop, Sustainable Prosperity (SP). According to the SP site, Rivers is a member of their “Research Network Committee” and “Co-Chair, Low carbon economy”. His bio indicates (inter alia) that: His research involves the evaluation…
[07/25/2013 12:14 PM – please note update below] Ottawa based Stewart Elgie – not unlike IPCC-nik and recently elected British Columbia Green Party MLA, Andrew Weaver – has a history of putting advocacy carts ahead of evidence horses. I first encountered Elgie and his enchantment with BC’s carbon tax a little over a year ago.…
Sometimes writing a blogpost is somewhat akin to peeling an onion! I began writing this post during the afternoon of May 15. And as each layer of this particular onion exposed another (thereby delaying the publication of this post!), I did not know whether to laugh at the chutzpah – or cry about the sheer…
A few years ago, I wrote about the birth of a new kid on the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)’s alarmist block: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s younger “sibling”, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). They were singing their favourite tune (i.e. the money song) even then (all emphases in…
Stewart Elgie is an environmental activist, as I have noted in the past (here, here and here), who runs a “think-tank” he calls “Sustainable Prosperity” (SP) which operates out of an office in Ottawa (for the renovation of which the University of Ottawa very generously donated $340,000 worth of “in kind contributions” along with $170,000…
British Columbia’s Climate Action Team was established in November 2007 to help the government reduce provincial greenhouse gas emissions by 33 per cent by 2020. It was made up of some of the province’s best minds, including nine world leaders in the climate sciences. The team’s mandate was threefold: to offer expert advice to the…
A few days ago, I had commented on a recent CBC news item announcing that the government of British Columbia was embarking on a “review” of BC’s Carbon Tax. The CBC’s record of providing useful links to back up its stories is far from sterling – and at the time of my original post, I…
A few days ago, I heard an item on CBC news which reminded listeners that British Columbia’s infamous “carbon tax” (thank you so much, Andrew Weaver) will be increased again on Canada Day (July 1). This supposedly “revenue neutral” tax was introduced some years ago – and has succeeded in making me wish I could…
