After almost four decades of climate alarmism the so-called “fight” against climate change has failed.

In 1990, the base year for the now long-forgotten Kyoto climate accord that was supposed to be the first step in saving the planet from catastrophic global warming, fossil fuels – oil, coal, natural gas – provided 87.38% of the world’s energy.

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As of 2024, it had barely budged at 81.26% and because the world today uses far more fossil fuel energy than it did in 1990, global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are at their highest level ever – projected at 38.1 billion tonnes last year.

As it turns out, Canada is a case study in the failed and ruinously expensive strategy to avoid what we’re told is the “existential” threat of climate change.

That’s the first problem – false advertising.

Climate change not an ‘existential’ threat

Climate change is not an “existential” threat. It will not wipe out humanity.

Severe weather is one of a number of environmental and geo-political challenges the world has faced, now faces and will face forever.

Second, “fighting climate change” is a misnomer.

What efforts to lower industrial emissions have actually been aimed at is reducing anthropogenic or “human-induced” climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels and some land use practices, as opposed to natural climate change, which has been going on forever.

Describing every single severe weather event as “climate change” as governments and media do, is absurd, because all severe weather events are the result of climate change, whether they are caused by........

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