THE 2018 BIG BOOK of BLOG POSTS Friends of Science Society and Contributors

THE 2018 BIG BOOK OF BLOG POSTS Friends of Science Society and Contributors

Contents Introduction ...... 7 Cher Alec Castonguay… ...... 8 Cher Alec Castonguay… en français ...... 8 Page | 1 Carbon Tax Information for Canadians ...... 8 Geothermal Heat – Effects on Oceans and Arctic Sea Ice Variability ...... 8 Geothermal heat: an episodic heat source in oceans ...... 9 Priorities for the Bush-Not Climate Jamborees or Carbon Farming ...... 9 The Humanicidal Temptation of Environmentalism ...... 9 Priorities for the Bush ...... 10 Globe and Mail – Editorial or Climate Activism? ...... 10 Saltbush Solar Activity Watch Established...... 10 The Inner Sanctums of Climate Change Propaganda ...... 11 Goodbye ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? IPCC Fatal Error? ...... 11 $500M Climate Carnival Concludes ...... 11 Flying – To Stop Climate Change. A Memo on Travel Plans ...... 12 COP24: Process Over Policy ...... 12 Year End Donation Appeal – Please Support Friends of Science Society ...... 13 “We’re Smarter than This”: Michelle Stirling’s Rebuttal to Tzeporah Berman’s Speech to the Alberta Teachers’ Association...... 13 An Open Letter to Whistler and CNRL on Climate Costs Shakedown ...... 13 COP24 – Just The Facts...... 14 An Open Letter to Canadian Senators on Bill C-69 ...... 14 Stop Wasting our Dam Water ...... 15 Good news about Climate Change...... 15 Swim Captain Lets Canada Drown ...... 15 Marijn Poels “PARADOGMA” wins Best Feature Documentary in Paris ...... 16 Come Clean on the UN COP24 Meeting in Poland...... 16 Climate Policy Choices: Payoffs and Trade-offs – Portsmouth Conference ...... 16 Let them Eat Beef – Countering Wendy Mesley and Minister McKenna ...... 17 Marching ‘for’ or ‘against’ the Climate ...... 17

Climate Dogma Challenged by Manitoban – Look Out Kids and Raging Grannies ...... 17 Climate of Conspiracy: Are climate sceptics targets of counter-intelligence programs? . 18 Climate Extremes of the Past – EVENEMENTS CLIMATIQUES EXTREMES – A Cold Welcome (French and English Resources) ...... 18 Page | 2 SUR LES EVENEMENTS CLIMATIQUES EXTREMES – voir ci-dessous ...... 18 The Revolt of the “Yellow Vests” – A View from the Saltbush Club “Down Under” ...... 19 A conversation with Patrick Moore, for the French “Association des climato-réalistes” . 19 What is Australia doing in Poland? ...... 19 An Open Letter to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...... 20 Katowice COP 24 Next Touristic-Climate Stage ...... 20 3 Reasons to Think that the Movement of “Yellow Vests” Has Only Just Begun ...... 21 Global Carbon Tax = Road to Ruin – New Friends of Science Billboard Campaign ...... 21 Letter from Saltbush Club – The Climate Bunny of the Pacific Rim ...... 21 COP 24 IS AT OUR DOORS ...... 22 The Latest from Claus Rieth at EIKE – Gleanings and Meanings ...... 22 In the Dark on Renewables: Rebutting Deloitte Insights and Climate Reality ...... 22 THE COMPOSITION OF GLOBAL EMISSIONS ...... 23 Sununu Heard the Jackboots Marching ...... 23 Faulty Premises = Poor Public Policy on Climate, Responding to IPCC SR15 ...... 23 Faulty Premises = Poor Public Policy on Climate ...... 23 Jane Q. Canadian’s Carbon Tax Quandary ...... 23 PARADOGMA has that potential to expand the discussion on how we got here and how we can move forward ...... 24 Report on the Porto Climate Conference ...... 24 To Eat Meat or Not to Eat Meat? Is that the Planetary GHG Question? ...... 25 Climate Change and You – Who’s Afraid of 1.5°C? ...... 25 The Eco-War on Oil Pipelines – Dispatches From The Front ...... 25 An Open Letter to the Minister of Finance on the Matter of Changes to the Charities Act ...... 26 Prime Minister Trudeau is Wrong on “Polluting for Free” – Here’s Why...... 26 Macron vs Trump: Compare the Results! ...... 26

Climate George Comes to Edmonton – The Alberta Narratives Project ...... 26 CLIMATE CHANGE: SOME BASIC ISSUES...... 27 The Alarming Scope of Future of Carbon Taxes in Canada ...... 27 Carbon Kleptomania – Rebutting the “Carbon Dividend” Proposal ...... 27 Page | 3 Just Beyond Tomorrow – A Reflection On Future Climate Policy ...... 28 Cavemen, Climate, and Computers ...... 28 PARADOGMA, documentary by Marijn Poels touring in European cinemas this October ...... 28 « Airbag Vert » au lieu de « Serre globale » ...... 29 Conférence de Climat à Porto – Tout à fait naturel ! ...... 29 If It Moves, Tax It! Trends in the Taxation of Canadian Motor Fuels ...... 29 The “Clean Growth” Hallucination ...... 29 The Recent McKitrick/Christy Paper in Plain English...... 30 Global Green Airbag versus Global Greenhouse ...... 30 The Law Versus Logic – A Review of the Federal Court of Appeal Decision on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project ...... 30 Trends in Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions ...... 31 Insights from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2018 ...... 31 Electric Vehicles, Global Oil Demand And Emissions ...... 31 Transition to Renewable Energy? World Energy Use Summarized ...... 31 POLITICAL RISK AND THE TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE EXPANSION ...... 32 A new report contributed by Robert Lyman © 2018, Ottawa energy policy consultant and former public servant, who also spent 10 years as a diplomat...... 32 POLITICAL RISK AND THE TRANS ...... 32 The Opportunity That Isn’t Knocking ...... 32 Countering the NYTimes Climate Tome ...... 32 Une année record… du jamais vu…Hottest Year Ever…Vague de Chaleur ...... 33 Voici de quoi relativiser les événements météo… ...... 33 Carbon Dioxide is a Pollutant? ...... 33 Remarks on the meeting of Trump and Putin ...... 33 CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AND CARBON TAXES – A Brief for the Prime Minister of Canada ...... 34

Climate Change Policies and Carbon Taxes ...... 34 Scientific and Economic Evidence as Related to Canadian Domestic and International Policy Concerns July 18, 2018 ...... 34 Uprooting the David Suzuki Fund Corporate Connections ...... 34 Page | 4 Pourquoi la droite doit épouser le climato-réalisme ...... 34 Oil Pipelines and Water – Addressing the Myths ...... 35 Prof. Richard Lindzen – in Conversation with Grégoire Canlorbe ...... 35 The Trans Mountain Expansion Projects – Facts, Not Lies ...... 35 Finding Canada’s Energy Policy ...... 36 Two Coasts, Two Solitudes ...... 36 Being Honest About Alberta Oil Sands and Trans Mountain ...... 36 The Trans Mountain Expansion Project – Too Much Shipping? ...... 36 Ending secret science at EPA ...... 37 How Reliant on Fossils Fuels are People In Ontario? ...... 37 Climate adaptation, reparation and restoration ...... 37 Andrew Sheer’s Flawed Climate Policy ...... 37 Solar Panels on the Prairies – Hope and Disappointment ...... 38 The Trans Mountain Expansion Project and Regional Oil Markets ...... 38 Suzuki Controversy: An Open Letter to Dr. David Turpin, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Alberta ...... 39 My Tipping Point with Dr. Suzuki ...... 39 CHECKSTOP: Challenging the Canadian Federal Government’s Carbon Pollution Pricing System Results Report ...... 39 Introduction ...... 40 Nouvelle-France: la conquête du carbone? ...... 40 New France: The Carbon Conquest? ...... 40 Carbon Tax: A Noble Way to Poverty – Rebutting the Ecofiscal Commission Report ...... 40 Spilling Best Kept Secrets on the West Coast ...... 41 CLIMATE POLICY, OIL PIPELINES AND CONFEDERATION: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT ...... 41 Event: Extreme Climate Uncertainty – May 15, 2018, Red & White Club, Calgary ...... 41

Science, Philosophy and Inquiry on a Galactic Scale: A conversation with Dr. Willie Soon ...... 42 The Abacus Data-Ecofiscal Push Poll – A Critique of Methodology...... 42 The International Energy Agency: Global Energy and CO2 Status Report 2017 ...... 42 Page | 5 Chris Ragan -Your Livelihood Depends on Oil ...... 43 The Storyline That Does Not Add Up ...... 43 Prospects for Meeting Emission Reduction Goals: The Case of Newfoundland and Labrador ...... 43 Interglacial, or not interglacial? That is the question...... 43 Examining the Claim That Renewable Energy Will Soon Replace Fossil Fuels ...... 44 Climate of Unaccountability Comes to Calgary ...... 44 The Global Panorama of Carbon Prices in 2017 ...... 44 The World Loves Oil ...... 45 Lessons From The U.K Cost Of Energy Review ...... 45 Unfriend ENGOs – Befriend Facts ...... 45 The British Columbia “What About Spilled Bitumen” Ruse ...... 45 Environmental Assessment Change in Canada says to Investors – We Dare You to Try and Do Business Here...... 46 RENEWABLE AND CONVENTIONAL ENERGY GENERATION – COMPARING THE COSTS . 46 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... 46 Trans Mountain Expansion Project-TERMPOL Assessment of Oil Spill Risk ...... 47 No Standing for Friends of Science at AUC on Jenner Wind Farm ...... 47 Excitement over Renewables Auction Ignores Infrastructure Costs and Coal Phase-out Debt ...... 47 Popular Global Warming/Glacier Melt/Sea Level Rise Chapter Tops 7,000 Downloads ... 48 Five questions from students about climate change ...... 48 Global Oil Demand – Up, Up and Away! ...... 48 Geo-Engineering Gone Wild – Confusing Correlation, Causation and Solution ...... 48 The International Energy Agency’s 2017 Coal Analysis ...... 49 Are Costly US CO2 Emissions Reductions Regulations Based on Semantics or Science? .. 49 Alberta Rejoicing over #Renewables Auction Will be Short-lived ...... 49 Insights From An Energy Flow Chart Of The United States...... 50

A Starving Polar Bear on Somerset Island is Not Evidence of Climate Change ...... 50 The Costs of Wind Energy in Ireland – New Report ...... 50 “Hard Things are Hard” – Part Three – Challenging the Hon. Catherine McKenna on #PoweringPastCoal at #COP23 ...... 51 Page | 6 “Hard Things are Hard” – Part Two – Challenging the Hon. Catherine McKenna on #PoweringPastCoal at #COP23 ...... 51 “Hard Things are Hard” – Challenging the Hon. Catherine McKenna on #PoweringPastCoal at #COP23 ...... 51 Life Without Fossil Fuels ...... 52 Infrastructure Bank – Questions of Potential Conflict of Interest ...... 52

The 2018 Big Book of Blog Posts Introduction Page | 7 Friends of Science Society has a very active blog and we are pleased to have about 20,000 subscribers. Subscribers automatically receive an email notification when we post something new. Some of our members may not be familiar with our blog and due to our very simple blog theme, it isn’t as easy to navigate or find articles as some others that are more advanced. We hope to address this in the near future, but in the meantime, here’s a collection of articles dating back to a month or two at the end of 2017 to just into 2019. Each title herein has a clickable link, so if you are reading it on your computer, you should be able to just click on the title/link and navigate to the page – or use the title in your search bar. We hope you enjoy the breadth and scope of commentary. We are pleased to include a few international pieces and a few contributions in French as well. You can subscribe to the blog by entering your email address as noted below:

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Cher Alec Castonguay…

JANUARY 1, 2019 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

A personal op-ed by Michelle Stirling © Jan. 1, 2019, Communications Manager for Page | 8 Friends of Science Society. Responding to Alec Castonguay’s Dec. 20, 2018 “A letter from Quebec…” published in … Continue reading

Cher Alec Castonguay… en français

JANUARY 31, 2019 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

Cher Alec,

Très aimable de nous avoir écrit.

Carbon Tax Information for Canadians

DECEMBER 31, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS Canadians will have many challenges in the coming year – one of them is the argument for or against carbon taxes. Be informed. Here’s a collection of some of our … Continue reading

Geothermal Heat – Effects on Oceans and Arctic

Sea Ice Variability

DECEMBER 31, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

Contributed by Professor Wyss Yim DSc PhD DIC FGS

Geothermal heat: an episodic heat source in oceans

Page | 9 Plate climatology (www.plateclimatology.com) is a theory introduced in 2014 by James Kamis. Unlike … Continue reading

Priorities for the Bush-Not Climate Jamborees or

Carbon Farming

DECEMBER 31, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

Contributed by Viv Forbes © 31st December 2018

Priorities for the Bush. by Viv Forbes The Saltbush Club today called on the Federal government to slash spending on the … Continue reading

The Humanicidal Temptation of

Environmentalism

DECEMBER 31, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

(an English translation)

Fascinating fertility of the human spirit which, over the centuries, continues to generate theories … Continue reading

Priorities for the Bush Page | 10

DECEMBER 31, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

News from our friends “Down Under” 31 December 2018

Priorities for the Bush. The enemies of the bush (resident in green-and-pleasant Brisbane) want to close the Queensland pastoral colleges in … Continue reading

Globe and Mail – Editorial or Climate Activism?

DECEMBER 29, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 1 COMMENT

Op-ed contributed by Michelle Stirling © 2018. Michelle Stirling is Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society. Like many things in the world of climate change, conflicts of interest appear … Continue reading

Saltbush Solar Activity Watch Established

DECEMBER 29, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

Saltbush Solar Activity Watch Established. by Viv Forbes ©27 December 2018

To view this whole article in your browser click: http://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/solar-watch.pdf

The Saltbush Club today announced the formation of the … Continue reading

The Inner Sanctums of Climate Change Page | 11 Propaganda

DECEMBER 25, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

Contributed by William Walter Kay BA LL B © 2018 See more of William Kay’s work at: http://www.ecofascism.com/index.html The Inner Sanctums of Climate Change Propaganda William Walter Kay BA LL … Continue reading

Goodbye ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? IPCC

Fatal Error?

DECEMBER 25, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

Contributed by consulting geologist Dr Roger Higgs, Geoclastica Ltd Technical Note 2018-6 (one slide only), updated © 25th December 2018 PDF of slide also posted here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329880738 IPCC’s 2013 report … Continue reading

$500M Climate Carnival Concludes

DECEMBER 25, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

COP 24 just concluded in Poland. Nearly 23,000 climate saviours attended this 24th annual climate carnival. Every year, … Continue reading Page | 12 Flying – To Stop Climate Change. A Memo on

Travel Plans

DECEMBER 21, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 1 COMMENT

Date: December 20, 2018

From: John Greenwold, Director, Climate Change Policy Division

To: Administrative Services Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Subject: Travel Requirements for the Coming … Continue reading

COP24: Process Over Policy

DECEMBER 21, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

Year End Donation Appeal – Please Support

Friends of Science Society Page | 13

DECEMBER 19, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

Dear Friends of Science Members and Supporters; We have reached the end of 2018 with severe challenges to our economic well- being in Alberta and Canada. The World Conferences on Climate … Continue reading

“We’re Smarter than This”: Michelle Stirling’s

Rebuttal to Tzeporah Berman’s Speech to the

Alberta Teachers’ Association

DECEMBER 18, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 1 COMMENT

Contributed by Michelle Stirling © 2018 Friends of Science Society’s Communications Manager delivers some real talk in the heart of Canada’s oil country. These are her opinions based on available … Continue reading

An Open Letter to Whistler and CNRL on Climate

Costs Shakedown

DECEMBER 17, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 5 COMMENTS

Mayor Jack Crompton Resort Municipality of Whistler Tim Mckay

4325 Blackcomb Way Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Page | 14 2100, 855 – 2 Street SW Whistler, BC V0N 1B4 Calgary,

Email: [email protected]

COP24 – Just The Facts

DECEMBER 17, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS

An Open Letter to Canadian Senators on Bill C-69

DECEMBER 17, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 1 COMMENT

Via Email: https://sencanada.ca/en/contact-information/

Dear Senators,

RE: Request to Reject Bill C-69 We appreciate your review of our submission.

Our Organization We are a group of earth, atmospheric, solar scientists, Professional … Continue reading

Stop Wasting our Dam Water

DECEMBER 17, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 0 COMMENTS Page | 15 For Immediate Release 16th December 2018

The Saltbush Club today accused state and federal governments of wasting water often … Continue reading

Good news about Climate Change

DECEMBER 17, 2018 / FOSADMIN / 1 COMMENT

Swim Captain Lets Canada Drown