Climate of Oppression Friends of Science Blog Posts from December 18, 2018 to November 30, 2020 Michelle Stirling 12/12/20 AGM Year in Review: Covers 24 months due to delays caused by COVID Table of Contents In Memory ................................................................................................................................................... 10 Climate of Oppression................................................................................................................................. 11 Page | 1 Friends of Science Blog Posts: December 18, 2018 to November 30, 2020 ............................................... 11 “Ballparking” The Cost of Electrification ................................................................................................. 12 Climate Activism! Donna Laframboise LIVE online Dec 8, 2020, 7pm MST ............................................ 12 Renewable Energy Outlook to 2025 – the Inconvenient Facts ............................................................... 12 Shell’s Guilt Trip – Fill up with Sinless Driving ......................................................................................... 13 The Very Opinionated Show: Conversation with Robert Lyman ............................................................ 13 Climate and the European Parliament: lack of calculation or demagoguery? ....................................... 13 The Paris Gap – Pitfall for Canada ........................................................................................................... 13 “Global Warning” – Climate and Energy Politics Face Off ...................................................................... 14 Israelis and Arabs, united even in oil ...................................................................................................... 14 Free science is here and growing fast ..................................................................................................... 15 Don Braid – Bigger Things to FOIP than the Alberta War Room ............................................................. 15 Hydrogen: I believed it!........................................................................................................................... 15 Expose the Anti-Alberta Witch Hunt ....................................................................................................... 15 Money For Nothing – EV Buses ............................................................................................................... 16 The Hydrogen Illusion -New Book by Samuel Furfari ............................................................................. 16 SLATE – Climate Crusade Against the Public Good ................................................................................. 16 Unmapped Territory: The Strategic Assessment of Climate Change ...................................................... 16 Penury or Prosperity – A Critical Review of “Bridge to the Future” ....................................................... 17 A Canadian Review of The U.S. Democratic Party 2020 Platform .......................................................... 17 Unwanted Truths on Climate – Unerwünschte Wahrheiten .................................................................. 17 Alberta Cities Buying Renewables PPAs =Taxpayer Death by Debt and Taxes ....................................... 17 In Defence Of Affordable Housing .......................................................................................................... 18 The Economics of Wind Power in Future – Blindness and Insight .......................................................... 18 Fact Checking the Climate Clock ............................................................................................................. 18 National Coalition of Chiefs -You can Help Us Defeat On-Reserve Poverty!! ......................................... 18 Do the Hustle! Climate Monarchy Want Carbon Serfdom for You ......................................................... 19 Stranded Assets are a Myth, Mark Carney ............................................................................................. 19 Call to Retract University of Alberta Report on Renewables .................................................................. 20 “Return to Eden” – Filmmaker Marijn Poels Takes on Climate Guilt and Myths ................................... 20 A Model for A “Sensible” Climate Policy for Canada .............................................................................. 20 Retrospective- The Kyoto Protocol: An Assault On Economic Growth, Environment, Public Safety, Science, And Human Civilization Itself .................................................................................................... 21 Do Charities in Canada Need More Public Funding? .............................................................................. 21 Page | 2 PROTEST VS GREEN TRADE WAR Rebutting Environmental Defence .................................................... 21 Dark Clouds of Conflict of Interest: Rejecting the Call for Climate Accountability Law ......................... 22 Futile Folly: Canada’s Climate Policy Goals in the Global Context – Updated ........................................ 22 Countering Andrew Leach on “The fiasco that is Alberta’s energy ‘war room'” .................................... 22 Marijn Poels “Return To Eden” to Showcase Sept. 17th, 2020 .............................................................. 22 The Last Time I Saw Paris ........................................................................................................................ 23 You Won’t Die from Climate Change. Here’s Why ................................................................................. 23 Do you believe in the existence of the night? ........................................................................................ 23 The Clean Fuel Standard – The Latest in Climate Pancaking .................................................................. 23 Facebook: Act Thoughtfully to Maintain Freedom of Speech and the Integrity of Scientific Inquiry .... 24 A Rebuttal of “The Short List” by Michael Barnard ................................................................................ 24 Litigating Climate Change in Canada – Evidence over Ideology ............................................................. 24 Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau Exposing the Flaws and Lack of Due Diligence in “Springing Canada Forward – Climate-Literate Stimulus” by 50 Sustainability Scholars ......................................... 24 Climate of Fear – Conversations that Matter with Stuart McNish. ........................................................ 25 A Short History of Greenhouse Emission Reduction Targets .................................................................. 25 No, Elizabeth May – Canada. Cannot Go 100% Renewable by 2030. Here’s why. ................................. 25 Climate Sensitivity by Energy Balance with Urban and Natural Warming ............................................. 25 Le Québec “Vert et Propre” n’atteindra pas ses Cibles Climatiques ...................................................... 26 Greta Thunberg kräver att lyssna på vetenskapen. Det är en bra idé om vi verkligen gör det utan förutfattade meningar. ........................................................................................................................... 26 Greta. Listen to the science – without preconceptions. ......................................................................... 26 Greta. Thunberg: Wrong on Canada. ...................................................................................................... 27 The “Net Zero” Emissions Myth .............................................................................................................. 27 EMPTY POCKETS: WHY RENEWABLES OFFER NO RESILIENT RECOVERY ................................................ 27 GRID-SCALE BATTERY STORAGE – AN ANECDOTAL REVIEW .................................................................. 27 Open Letter to Mayor Nenshi. and City of Calgary. Council ................................................................... 28 Letter to a Friend of Science ................................................................................................................... 28 An Open Letter to Premier Jason Kenney and Minister Nixon – Call to reject “Alberta.’s Climate Future” report (Hayhoe & Stoner 2019) as a Failed Analysis ................................................................. 28 EMPTY WALLETS: Why Renewables Offer No Resilient Recovery – Part 2 ............................................. 28 Global Climate Experiment Associated with COVID-19 Pandemic ......................................................... 29 A PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THE OPEN LETTER TO PM JUSTIN TRUDEAU BY 265 CANADIAN ACADEMICS . 29 Page | 3 The Montreal Nursing Homes Massacre ................................................................................................ 29 CLINTEL – Letter to António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations ........................................... 30 Please Help Prevent FoSS From Becoming The Next COVID Casualty .................................................... 30 Climate Crazed Journos Fall for Tar Sands Campaign Goals ................................................................... 31 US Climate Scientist James Hansen Pushes for Canadian Carbon Tax Serfdom ....................................