May 20, 2013: "Lighting Big Green's match to burn King Coal - Energy suppliers must quit collaborating with renewable-power enemies", by Tom Harris and Dr. Tim Ball, published in the Washington Times, Washington DC, U.S.A.

 

"a kind of civil war rages within the energy industry where large power companies in oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear and hydro often work to discredit their competitors in an attempt to gain an advantage for short term profit. All the while, their real enemy, and indeed the enemy of us all—aggressive environmentalism—continues its long campaign to dismantle the western world’s primary energy sources."    Read whole piece on the Times' Website.

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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 letter urging 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.”

Read whole media release.

 

April 27, 2013: "Kudos to Environment Minister Peter Kent for giving Canadians a climate scare-free Earth Day", by Tom Harris as published on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy Webpage.

"Happily, and perhaps unexpectedly, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent resisted the temptation to associate his Earth Day speech with the climate scare. In an announcement that included nothing at all about climate, global warming, greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide, Kent and his Alberta counter-part Diana McQueen instead discussed a practical, science-based plan to enhance public access to real pollution data from the oilsands."

Read whole piece.

Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent presents a practical, science-based plan to enhance public access to real pollution data from the oilsands. Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

 

 

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-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). Noting the intense climate focus in this year’s Earth 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.

Read whole media release.

 

April 19, 2013: "What Joe Oliver should have said", letter to the editor published in the National Post across Canada.

Re: Ministers Head In Opposite Directions On Climate Change, April 13.

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.

  

April 15, 2013: "Steel yourselves to attacks from enviro-extremists, don’t surrender, advises air force vet - Harper government must provide strong support for Oliver's climate realism", by Tom Harris, Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition, published in Canada Free Press, Toronto, Canada.

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. 

Read whole piece!

“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)

April 12, 2013: "Ontario wind power kills jobs and increases electricity costs: Report",  Sunmedia TV, Toronto, Canada.

"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.

 

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.”   

Read whole media release.

Note: ICSC has created a 14 minute video that analyzes Premier Redford’s mistakes and suggests more functional messaging—watch the video here.

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.”   

“The ultimate aim of climate activists is no less than to entirely terminate our use of hydrocarbon fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas,” explained Harris. “So, it is a disastrous strategy for a province that derives most of its income from those resources to support a movement that is trying to kill the market for the same resources.” 

Note: ICSC has created a video that analyzes Premier Redford’s mistakes and suggests more functional messaging—see the following Webpage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXEanhiRtM0.

“What keeps getting lost in all of this is that it’s an absolutely senseless argument,” said ICSC Science Advisory Board member, Dr. Tim Ball, former climatology professor from the University of Winnipeg. “It is all based on an absolutely unproven, and now falsified, scientific argument that carbon dioxide (CO2) is causing dangerous climate change. Seventeen years of no warming, a period during which CO2 levels have continued to rise, demonstrates that the climate scare is obviously unfounded.”  

University of Saskatchewan geology professor Dr. Brian Pratt asked, “Now that it is well established, and indeed accepted by scientists who count themselves as global warming alarmists, that the ‘average global temperature’ has shown itself to be decoupled from the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, then why is it that Premier Redford’s government is still fixated on a scientifically-flawed premise of human-induced, catastrophic climate change?”  

“Should we not expect our political masters to be on top of the latest scientific developments before forcing on the populace measures that will have serious economic consequences?” Pratt wondered. “This is not to say there aren’t legitimate environmental concerns associated with oil sands extraction.” 

“Climate Change science is still evolving and the link between human-added CO2 and climate warming remains elusive,” agreed Dr. Madhav Khandekar, consultant meteorologist and former Environment Canada Research Scientist. "Further, the modest warming of the last 30 years has NOT led to increase in extreme weather events, which are naturally driven and have in fact declined in respect of thunderstorm and tornado counts for North America. Also global sea level rise has been a mere 1mm to 1.5mm per year over the last two years." 

Khandekar advised, “We must prepare for and adapt to climate change as it occurs, not vainly trying to stop it from happening.” 

“If the Americans don’t change course and quickly approve Keystone XL, with no climate change-related strings attached, then we should focus instead on getting the Northern Gateway pipeline approved and built and expand our oil sands shipments to China,” asserted Ball. “Canada doesn’t need Keystone XL. The absolutely useless CO2 reduction concessions Redford is making to appease the Obama administration is too costly for our country and based on an entirely bogus scientific foundation besides.”  

“It is perhaps understandable that the Redford government is so frightened of activists that they dare not contest the science foundation of the climate scare,” Harris said. “But they do us all a great disservice when they promote it in their Keystone XL pipeline lobbying efforts and so feed the fire that threatens to destroy the province’s, and ultimately Canada’s, main source of wealth. This is a one-way ticket to a future with no Keystone XL, no Northern Gateway Pipeline, no oil sands and ultimately no ‘have’ provinces at all.” 

The ICSC is a non-partisan group of scientists, economists and energy and policy experts who are working to promote better understanding of climate science and related policy worldwide. We aim to help create an environment in which a more rational, open discussion about climate issues emerges, thereby moving the debate away from implementation of costly and ineffectual “climate control” measures. Instead, ICSC encourages effective planning for, and adaptation to, inevitable natural climate variability, and continuing scientific research into the causes and impacts of climate change.  

ICSC also focuses on publicizing the repercussions of misguided plans to “solve the climate crisis”. This includes, but is not limited to, “carbon” sequestration as well as the dangerous impacts of attempts to replace conventional energy supplies with wind turbines, solar power, most biofuels and other ineffective and expensive energy sources.

For more information about this announcement or ICSC in general, visit http://www.climatescienceinternational.org, or contact:  

Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng. (Mech. - thermofluids)
Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition, and Advisor to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy
P.O. Box 23013
Ottawa, Ontario K2A 4E2
Canada

Email: tom.harris@climatescienceinternational.net

Phone: 613-728-9200

ICSC Webpage: http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=393

April 9, 2013: "Smart messaging needed to avoid pipeline lobbying failure', by Tom Harris, published at Watts Up With That?, "The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change."

"The situation is especially alarming in oil-rich Alberta, Canada. There, a supposedly conservative government feeds the fire that threatens to destroy the province’s, and indeed the country’s, main source of wealth, their vast hydrocarbon resources. In an attempt to please the Obama administration so as to secure approval for the Keystone XL pipeline project, and to keep climate campaigners and Canada’s mostly left wing media at bay, Alberta Premier Alison Redford has completely capitulated to climate alarmism."

Read whole piece.

 

April 6, 2013: "Climate change sceptic rejects criticism as 'hate speech'", New Zealand Herald.

"Lord Christopher Monckton has rejected criticism of his views about climate change as his public speaking tour of New Zealand continues.

"The Briton's views were criticised by some New Zealand scientists in an APNZ report last week - but Lord Monckton said it was "hate speech'' to describe him as a climate change "denier''. "I do not deny we can change the climate: I question how much we do,'' he wrote in response."

Read whole editorial. Comments may be sent to the newspaper here. Lord Monckton is currently on a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand.

The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition tell the whole story about how this came about here.

March 21, 2013: Listen to Tim Ball, PhD, environmental consultant and former climatology professor, University of Winnipeg (founded the Rupertsland Research Centre), interviewed by Japan-based James Corbett of the The Corbett Report. Mr. Corbett works as a film producer for GRTV, the video production arm of the Montreal-based Centre for Research on Globalization.

Attention: News Editors, Political, Science and Environment Reporters

FORGET "EARTH HOUR"; PARTICIPATE IN "ENERGY HOUR" ONE HOUR EARLIER Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is a serious mistake

Ottawa, Canada, March 21, 2013: “Earth Hour is a poignant symbol of how climate activists have hijacked the environmental movement,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). “Most people do not realize that, when they turn out their lights for sixty minutes on March 23, they are not supporting science-based environmental protection. Participants in Earth Hour are unwittingly helping prop up one of the most threatening scientific hoaxes in history—the idea that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities are known to be causing dangerous global warming and other problematic climate change.”

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Sawtooth line above is the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.It continues to rise, while temperatures have flat-lined. March 8, 2013: "The models are broken, by the standards warmists set", by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia. "Once warmists said 15 years of no statistically significant warming invalidated their models. Draw your own conclusions." Read whole piece.

 

February 24, 2013: "One day, turning off the lights won't be up to you - Governments have taken suicidal gambles with our energy supplies" by Christopher Booker, columnist for the Telegraph, London, United Kingdom.

"Alistair Buchanan, retiring head of the energy regulator Ofgem, [said] that next month we will see the closure of five major coal-fired power stations that between them contribute nearly a sixth of the UK’s average electricity needs.

"Over the next few years, Mr Buchanan feared, we will be dangerously close to not having enough power in the grid to keep Britain’s lights on."

"Our lights will go out, our economy will suffer a catastrophe, our bills will double, and tens of thousands more people will die of cold in those freezing winters that our politicians were somehow fooled into believing would never come again."

Read whole piece:

Coping with coming power shortages will be much harderfor England than it has been for warm Cuba. Yet that is thedirection the U.K. is headed with irresponsible energy policies that replace reliable coal-fired power plants with unreliable wind power.Photo: Cuban girl reads during power outage, Jorge Rey/AP

 

February 16, 2013: The following piece was published in The Reporter, the local newspaper based out of Lansdale, Pennsylvania owned by Journal Register Company:

Click on article to go to dedicated ICSC Webpage for this piece.

February 11, 2013: "Inaugural Address reveals dangerous flaws in U.S. Energy Policy", by Tom Harris, published in the Western Star, western Newfoundland's only daily newspaper, with a weekly circulation of about 52,500.   "History is replete with examples of societies that collapsed because they did not properly respond to the threat of climate change. The Greenland Vikings and the pre-Incan civilizations in South America died out for this reason. While modern societies are more robust due to technology, primarily the ready availability of food and energy from across the globe, we too must get ready for climate change or suffer the consequences. "But crippling America in a vain attempt to stop climate change through misguided energy policy betrays everyone. "

 

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February 11, 2013: "Mr. President: For Next Energy Czar, Choose More Carefully - Secretary Steven Chu’s replacement needs a practical approach to climate change and energy", by Tom Harris, Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) and an advisor to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and Bryan Leyland, a New Zealand-based Consulting Engineer specializing in electricity generation and power systems. Mr. Leyland is ICSC’s founding secretary and Energy Issues Adviser. Published by PJ Media, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

“President Barack Obama and the Senate must not repeat the mistake of choosing another climate activist for U.S. secretary of energy. Although well-qualified in his field of physics, outgoing Secretary Dr. Steven Chu brought a dangerously naïve vision of both climate change and America’s energy future to Washington.

“Not a climate scientist himself, Chu had faith in the validity of Al Gore’s position on global warming, and even said just prior to becoming energy secretary: “Coal is my worst nightmare … there’s enough carbon in the ground to really cook us.” Such unscientific and biased comments should have immediately eliminated Chu from consideration for a Cabinet position."

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As demonstrated by his error-riddled resignation letter (see here), U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Stephen Chu has a dangerously naïve vision of climate change and America’s energy needs.

February 4, 2013: "Climate seers as blind guides - Forecasters often use unscientific computer models", by ICSC Science Advisory Board member, J. Scott Armstrong, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Founder of the International Journal of Forecasting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

"In 2009, Mr. Green, Willie Soon of the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics and I conducted a forecasting validation study using data from 1850 through 2007. We showed that a simple model of no trend in global mean temperatures for horizons of one to 100 years ahead provided forecasts that were substantially more accurate than the IPCC’s 0.03 degrees Celsius per year projections. For horizons of 91 to 100 years, the IPCC’s warming projection had errors 12 times larger than those from our simple model."

Read more.

A copy of this article that includes imbedded links to supporting materials may be read here.

Watch 8 minute video description of the concept as applied to climate change "forecasts".

 

January 30, 2013: "Obama’s path toward energy poverty - Shoddy science backs damaging policies", by Tom Harris, Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), published in the Washington (DC) Times, U.S.A.

"instead of promoting the most reliable and least expensive energy technologies, such as coal-fired electricity generation, Mr. Obama encourages the least reliable and most expensive sources.

Read whole piece.