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ICSC warns against including GHG standards in Canadian national energy strategy 

Government must convene climate change hearings to inform the public about the real state of the science

Ottawa, Canada, February 3, 2012: “The Canadian Government must categorically reject calls to include greenhouse gas (GHG) standards in any national energy strategy,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) which is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. “Energy plans should be restricted to addressing only the environmental concerns we know to be real, such as air, land and water pollution. The linkage between energy usage and climate is far too tenuous to be included in any serious national discussions about energy.” 

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February 1, 2012: "No Need to Panic About Global Warming - There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy", published on January 27, 2012 in the Wall Street Journal, New York City, U.S.A.

"Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true. In fact, a large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed."

Read whole piece.

Watch an interview with Professor William Happer of Princeton University, a signer of the open letter, as follows:

January 28, 2012: Interview with Tom Harris, ICSC Executive Director, on “Straight Talk” with C-FAX 1070 radio’s (Victoria, B.C., Canada) News Director and Program Manager Murray Langdon.

Listen here.

January 25, 2012: "POST-MODERN SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTIFIC LEGITIMACY OF THE IPCC’S WG1 AR5 DRAFT REPORT" (submitted to local authorities in Europe), by Arthur Rörsch, PhD, former vice-president of the board of management of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied research, TNO, The Netherlands.

"This paper aims to focus the attention of the scientific community in general - and of political and science administrators in particular - on the need for a critical analysis of the performance and recommendations of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). ... Some of the Panel’s procedures conform to post-modern science practices, thereby deviating from the scientific principles that have traditionally applied throughout the history of western scientific endeavour.

"... It is recommended that assessment studies should be undertaken by individual nations, quite independently from the IPCC..."

Read Dr. Rörsch's working paper. Read the NIPCC report referenced on page 2 of the working paper.

January 13, 2011: Short audio segments of the December 15, 2011 Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources hearing about the science and economics of climate change are now available. Click here to download audios from the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) Website.

The committee hearing announcement may be seen here. The English language official transcript of the hearing is available here. The French language official transcript is available here.

The whole hearing may be viewed on-line here (2 hours). The various segments may be viewed on line here.