If you think some of the daffy claims and stunts by climate alarmists mean the movement is coming unglued, you’d be quite mistaken. On the contrary, a group called Extinction Rebellion has taken to gluing themselves to everything in sight including radical British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s house to widespread applause. You’d think more normal radicals would want to pry themselves loose from this thing. Instead they are being drawn toward it. A particularly glaring example was actress Emma [Read more]
John Robson: Skipping the test
If you point out that an April snowstorm hardly feels like global warming you get the patronizing lecture about the difference between weather and climate. And if you ask “Then why is hot weather touted as proof?” they declare the science is "settled" and shut down the discussion. Well if it is then I want to know what's going to happen ahead of time, not after the fact. I know the difference between weather and climate. But I also know the difference between science and flimflam. One [Read more]
John Robson: Get rid of gas… hey, where’s the gas?
Here come the unicorns. Or so we’d better hope. Because if they don’t hop onto the treadmill and start churning out power things are going to get kind of chilly and hungry. Not to say awkward. Look no further than the absurd statement by B.C. Premier John Horgan that if gas prices didn’t fall soon he would do some unspecified thing to bring “some relief”. According to the Globe & Mail, “Horgan said he can’t explain a 12 cent a litre increase and perhaps the industry should invest more in [Read more]
John Robson: How would you know?
A lot of people know that man-made CO2 controls climate change, we're in the midst of unprecedented and dangerous warming, and only a handful of oil-funded skeptics claim otherwise. They’ve been told it ad nauseum by every level of authority in society for the past decade. But what if they hadn’t? How would they know? Looking out my window in Ottawa, where it snowed yesterday and today and we tied the record for most days with at least 10 cm of snow cover, just in time for the new carbon tax [Read more]
Robson: 97 percent wrong
If you dare raise questions about climate change, as we’re doing at the Climate Discussion Nexus, somebody will immediately try to clobber you with the claim that 97% of world scientists agree that it’s an urgent manmade crisis, unlike you idiots. But the thing is, they don’t. It’s a made-up number… and if someone is that smugly and aggressively wrong about something that important you wonder what else they don’t know. Many people assume the 97% figure is solid enough to be used as a club. [Read more]
Robson: Panic is a bad response to an alleged climate crisis
One important reason I recently launched the Climate Discussion Nexus as a forum for fact-based discussion of climate science and policy is that when you raise questions about “global warming” a number of things happen that don’t remind you of reasonable debate. Like people hollering that the crisis is too urgent to waste time thinking. For decades we’ve been told we have only 10 years to save the planet. Once it’s too late, we will see such horrors that to wait for evidence would be madness. [Read more]
John Robson: A real debate about climate (if that’s even possible!)
Well isn’t that nice? Someone in Alberta is having conversations about climate change that bring together differing viewpoints and … massage them into the alarmist “consensus.” Then they go outside and it’s freezing cold. I know, I know, when we point out that Calgary just had its coldest February since 1936 and Banff its coldest ever they pat us on the head and say warming isn’t about warming. It’s about whatever bad stuff just happened, doubtless caused by wretched humans. Then they explain [Read more]