ICSC MEDIA RELEASE - ICSC CALLS FOR OPEN DEBATE ABOUT THE CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Attention: News Editors, Political, Science and Environment Reporters
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD IGNORE GREENHOUSE GAS IMPACTS IN ENERGY POLICY FORMULATION
Pretending that climate science is settled, as authors of new open letter do, deceives the public
Ottawa, Canada, May 9, 2013: "Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver should reject the pleas of twelve climate scientists, economists and policy experts who signed an open letterurging him to make greenhouse gas impacts “a central consideration” of Canada’s hydrocarbon resources development,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa-based International Climate Science Coalition(ICSC). “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.”
“It is utter nonsense to say, as the open letter signers did, that ‘the responsibility for preventing dangerous climate change rests with today’s policymakers,’” said ICSC Science Advisory Board member, Dr. Tim Ball, former University of Winnipeg climatology professor. “We can’t even properly forecast global climate, let alone control it. The open letter’s advocacy of “avoiding 2?C of global warming” by altering our energy policy is ridiculous when cooling is more probable, and may have already started.”
ICSC MEDIA RELEASE - PRACTICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS MUST DIVORCE THEMSELVES FROM GLOBAL WARMING CAMPAIGNERS
Attention: News Editors, Political, Science and Environment Reporters
EARTH DAY'S CREDIBILITY DAMAGED BY DOMINANCE OF CLIMATE ACTIVISTS
Legitimate environmental concerns being shortchanged by focus on bogus global warming scare
Ottawa, Canada, April 22, 2013: "Earth Day participants must distance themselves from the climate scare or risk the event degenerating into irrelevance,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa-basedInternational Climate Science Coalition(ICSC). Noting the intense climate focus in this year’sEarth Day Network advertising, Harris warned, “As the hypothesis that humanity’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing dangerous global warming falls into disrepute, all those associated with the climate alarm will also lose credibility.”
ICSC Science Advisory Board member,Dr. Tim Ball, former University of Winnipeg climatology professor, explained, “All sensible people are environmentalists. We all want clean air, land and water and to protect species at risk to the degree possible considering the many other important demands on society.”
“But controlling global climate through restricting emissions is unscientific nonsense,” Ball continued.
Environment Minister Peter Kent capitulated long ago to climate campaigners and he regularly promotes the hypothesis that humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions are causing a climate crisis. So it was to be expected that activists such as Greenpeace would find it “appalling” and “shocking” that Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver expressed doubt about the severity of man-made global warming.
Unfortunately, the predictable reaction from activists resulted in the Minister effectively repledging true allegiance to the global warming scare. He should have provided far more substantial evidence for his correct statements. He should have mentioned the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change in which hundreds of science research papers are cited that disproved much of the basis of climate alarm. He should have mentioned the 2011 testimonies of four leading climate experts before a Senate committee that showed how poor the evidence is for dangerous human-caused climate problems. He could have mentioned the dozens of open letters and other declarations endorsed by hundreds of scientists (sample here) over the past 15 years that the climate scare is scientifically unfounded.
He might then even bring Mr. Kent over to a more realistic stance on climate change.
Tom Harris, executive director, International Climate Science Coalition, Ottawa.
GOVERNMENT MUST COUNTER CLIMATE ALARMISTS WITH SOLID SCIENCE
World War II Lancaster bomber pilot “Sandy” Mutch says that the Harper government should not be surprised that they were angrily attacked by climate campaigners last week when Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver expressed doubt about the severity of man-made global warming.
“On bombing raids over Europe, we could tell we were closing in on the target when we started to get the most flak,” said Mutch, now 93 and living in Ottawa. “Anyone who wants to kill the dangerous and unfounded climate scare, as I certainly hope our government does, should focus on exposing the shaky science behind climate alarm. That is the Achilles heel of the whole movement. Shoot it down and you win the war!”
Mutch, who hold a Masters of Science degree from the University of Toronto (1951) and who has prepared some of his own YouTube videos on the topic, is right. The science is of paramount importance. If humanity’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are not causing dangerous climate change, then all of the other arguments in the debate are irrelevant.
“I lost many of my best friends and colleagues in the war but we weredoing it to defend our society from deadly enemies,” Mutch explains. “Canada now needs leaders with the courage to stand up to today’s deadly enemies, climate campaigners who are bent on destroying the energy sources we need to maintain a prosperous society.” (click on image above for larger view of this painting)
"Ontario's pursuit of wind power has driven up electricity prices, is killing jobs and might even lead to more smog, a new Fraser Institute report says.
"Ross McKitrick, author of Environmental and Economic Consequences of Ontario's Green Energy Act (GEA), says the Ontario government's electricity plan is now 10 times more costly than installing pollution-control equipment on existing coal plants -- an option he argues would have produced similar improvements in air quality.
"His analysis of the GEA concludes the province is well on its way to having some of the highest electricity prices in North America."
Read whole piece. Click on video above to watch interview with economist Dr. Ross McKitrick.
ICSC MEDIA RELEASE - PREMIER REDFORD'S WASHINGTON DC PRESENTATION HELPS OPPONENTS
Attention: News Editors, Political, Science and Environment Reporters
ALBERTA PREMIER'S SUPPORT OF CLIMATE ALARMISM A THREAT TO CANADIAN PROSPERITY
Keystone XL pipeline not worth burdening Canada with severe carbon dioxide regulations
Ottawa, Canada, April 9, 2013:“It is bad enough that the Alberta government panders to environmental extremists in its own province,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). “But promoting climate alarm in Canada’s most important trading partner, as Alberta Premier Alison Redford did this afternoon at the Washington DC-based Brookings Institute, is a public relations blunder of the first order.”
