ARPA Canada's Executive Director and Legal Counsel are among the signatories of a quality declaration from the Cornwall Alliance titled "Protect the Poor: Ten Reasons to Oppose Harmful Climate Change Policies." We joined over 20 climate scientists, along with many economists, policy experts, and ministry leaders and we encourage our readers to consider signing onto this declaration as well (please note that this declaration is available for all citizens to sign, not just those with fancy titles and educational degrees). Among other things, the declaration calls on political leaders "to...
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.. The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation: Religion is the root of any culture, and environmentalism has become a full-fledged religion in its own right. It is the most comprehensive substitute in the world today for Christianity so far as world view, theology, ethics, politics, economics, and science are concerned, and you need to understand it in order to counter it effectively, from presuppositions to policies, from classroom to movie theater, from evening network news to Internet and local...
Globe & Mail, August 30, 2010: The UN climate panel should only make predictions when it has solid scientific evidence and avoid straying into policy advocacy, a group of national science academies said in a report on Monday. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was hit with a wave of criticism after acknowledging in January that its 2007 global warming report had exaggerated the pace of Himalayan glaciers melting. It had previously said the report had overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level. Read more...
Lorne Gunter, National Post, July 16, 2010: Last week, the third of three allegedly independent inquiries into last fall's Climategate scandal at Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) was concluded. Like the other two, it found troubling behaviour by the scientists at the CRU or by the University of East Anglia, of which the CRU is a part -- most notably attempts to hide data from critics and from government investigators. [Read more]...
ARPA Note: For a quality perspective on "climate change" check out the Cornwall Alliance website. Globe & Mail, July 5, 2010: A leading Dutch environment agency reported Monday that the seminal 2007 UN scientific report on climate change is too generalized and has even more errors than discovered so far — including one contributed by the agency itself. [Keep reading this article here.]...
ARPA Note: Consider sending in a letter to the editor of your local paper on this topic, given the upcoming federal budget. Also, be sure to read this follow-up article to the one below, which provides concrete suggestions for change. Written by David Murrell Ph. D Thursday, 18 February 2010: Last December at the Copenhagen climate talks, a Canadian environmentalist group – the Climate Action Network – bestowed upon Canada its “Fossil of the Day” award, attacking the country for its supposed slowness in undertaking policies against...
Related: Globe and Mail - The Science Isn't Settled. Now What? Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15 2010: Prof Jones stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s climate change unit in December after leaked emails appeared to show academics were manipulating data to bolster claims that global warming is caused by humans. Now the academic has admitted he may have lost track of some of the data used to produce the famous “hockey stick” graph, which uses climate readings from...
In the wake of "Climategate" one person has taken the innitiative to prepare a petition calling upon our Canadian government to: 1. Forthwith establish a Royal Commission to investigate into the scientific veracity of the anthropogenic Global Warming Theory which holds that: a. Global Warming is occurring at an accelerated rate; b. That Global Warming is primarily caused by the emission of Carbon Dioxide from human activities; c. That the proposed laws, policies, and prescriptions recommended by the United Nations, if enacted and enforced will have a material effect in stopping the...