Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition outlines why Trudeau’s climate plans will cause economic hardship in Canada, and will do nothing measurable to improve the global climate.
TORONTO (November 13, 2024) – Canadians for Sensible Climate Policy and The Heartland Institute have published a new book called Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition. This 88-page book is a timely counter to the “Net Zero” push in Canada, and outlines how that goal is unachievable by 2050, scientifically unnecessary, and will ensure a lower standard of living for all Canadians with no appreciable benefit to the environment.
The book was written by Canadian Ron Davison, P.Eng., president of The Friends of Science Society, and American H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., director of the Arthur C. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank based in Illinois. The book is organized to be an easy-to-use reference for journalists, teachers, students, and the general public who are interested in facts about the climate and energy policy. Contributing authors were Tom Harris, Robert Lyman, Paul MacRae, and John Zacharias.
Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition covers, among other topics and controversies:
- the obstacles to Canada ever achieving Net Zero
- the technical impracticality and high cost of carbon capture projects
- the problems with intermittent “renewable” energy like wind and solar, including the destruction of land and wildlife
- the fact that electric vehicles are not “zero emissions” vehicles, and exploit workers in the world’s poorest countries
- the impact energy and economic sacrifices by Canadians will have on global carbon dioxide emissions and global temperatures
- the fact that great reduction in use of fossil fuels by developed nations would impose on about 3 billion inhabitants of poor countries starvation from lack of nitrogen fertilizers
- what are the true main drivers of global climate change
- the fact that the data do not support the claims that wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, and tropical cyclones are getting worse
- the fact that the oceans are not “acidifying,” nor are they rising at dangerous levels
- the benefits of the use of fossil fuels to humanity around the globe
You can review a copy of the book (not for public distribution) at this link. You can review the graphics, charts, and references with hyperlinks at this link. Hard copies of the book can be purchased from the Friends of Science Society.
The following statements from authors and editors of the book Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition maybe used for attribution. If you would like more information or to schedule an interview, please refer to their contact information below, or contact Jim Lakely, VP & Director of Communications at The Heartland Institute: [email protected] or (cell) 312-731-9364.
“My hope is that Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition will, in parallel with the goals of the Canadians for Sensible Climate Policy and The Heartland Institute, lead to some open, civil, and much needed dialogue on the realities associated with the unnecessary, unattainable, ideological drive to Net Zero and its associated energy transition. This book does have a Canadian focus, but the fundamentals discussed can be applied across the planet. We cannot afford to keep spending debt-financed taxpayer’s dollars just to slow the projected temperature rise a century from now by an unmeasurably small amount. We need to start focusing on the financial and energy security issues we already face and quit exacerbating them.”
Ron Davison, P. Eng.
President
Friends of Science Society
Lead author, Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition
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“This book provides a fact-based refutation of the false claims that climate change poses an existential threat, that restricting fossil fuel development and use in Canada will minimize future harm from climate change, and that Canada’s present climate policies will benefit the nation and its people.
“The key takeaway from this timely, fact-based book is that the Trudeau government’s climate policies are all pain for Canadian’s pocketbooks, lifestyles, and freedom, and no gain for the environment.”
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.
Director
Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy
The Heartland Institute
[email protected]
“Many leading companies in Canada’s financial sector fully support, at least in public, the government’s quest for Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. However, in doing so, they ignore the economic damage Net Zero will cause to their clients’ savings and investments—damage that this book documents in detail. Asset managers and others in the financial community are custodians of the nation’s savings and invest-able wealth. If they do their fiduciary duty, a basic cost-benefit analysis of Net Zero will quickly reveal that the climate and environmental ‘benefits’ do not remotely justify the estimated costs of trillions of dollars and negate the Net Zero policy. Consequently, a prudent approach might be to abandon Net Zero at 2050 when providing investment advice to clients.”
John Zacharias
Director
Canadians for Sensible Climate Policy
[email protected]
The Heartland Institute is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1984 and headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Heartland is known globally as the leading think tank promoting skepticism about catastrophic human-caused climate change. For more information, visit our website or call 312/377-4000.
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
