Honouring Samuel Paty
High school teacher is beheaded on a French street following classes on free expression.
UN on Disasters: Those Who Can’t Do, Scold
The United Nations, which failed to stop the coronavirus from spreading everywhere, and which introduced cholera to earthquake-devastated Haiti, releases a report on disaster management.
Pandemic Bungling Undercuts UN Goals
German study calls public transit ‘the big loser.’
Nice Idea, Shaky Evidence
Media stories about Norway winters & positive thinking lack proper skepticism.
Is COVID Responsible for Only 6% of US Deaths?
When someone commits suicide, comorbidities on their death certificate don’t mean they didn’t kill themselves.
Davos and COVID-19
While our ‘thought leaders’ worried about the elderly in the year 2050, a virus that would kill hundreds of thousands of elderly people this year was spreading like wildfire.
About That Sharp Rise in Climate Concern
Poll sponsors say climate attitudes have been ‘remarkably consistent’ over two decades.
Science, Skepticism, and Irony
An impressive new book about the shortcomings of scientific research is inadvertently ironic.
Hydroxychloroquine & the Judgment of History
How a safe, well-understood malaria drug was demonized as a COVID-19 treatment. Because a politician said good things about it.
Rejoice! We Have Millions of Whales
Whales are at no risk of extinction. When 50,000-strong species are classified as ‘endangered,’ words don’t mean what we think they do.
Canadian Wildlife Federation: Lying With Pictures to Raise Cash
Humpback whales are thriving, but an activist fundraising campaign says they’re on the brink of extinction.
A Few Months of Hindsight
Journalist George Gilder declared the pandemic over in April. Mathematician Isaac Ben-Israel insisted the virus would burn out everywhere 70 days after it began.
Benghazi, Fake News, and Extraordinary Heroes
Much of the conservative narrative about Benghazi is wrong.
What Happened to ‘Without Fear or Favor’?
New York Times journalists want news stories vetted prior to publication. They want mandatory & ongoing newsroom sensitivity training. The Gray Lady is now a place where journalists fear each other.
False Gods for Lost Souls
With its threats of fire and brimstone, environmentalism is the new religion. But where’s the humility, the compassion, the spiritual transcendence?
Environmentalism for the Non-Naive
Like colonialists of old, affluent green activists impose their will on poor people in impoverished countries who have no means of defending themselves.
WHO: Disinformation from the Top
The head of the WHO isn’t annoyed his organization learned about the coronavirus from third parties. He isn’t angry it had to ask China for info more than once. In fact, he’s been covering for China.
WHO Now Says China Didn’t Report Coronavirus – Corrects Timeline
After implying for months that China followed international rules, the World Health Organization backtracks.
Secrecy & Stonewalling: China and SARS 1.0
China gave the WHO permission to send in investigators, but wouldn’t allow them near the affected area after they’d arrived. They departed empty-handed, two weeks later.
Sea Turtles and Plastics – The Bigger Picture
Plastics saved sea turtles, when tortoiseshell luxury goods became mass market items.
How Climate Trickery Infiltrated the AGU
11 presentations – based on private, agenda-driven research – were delivered to the world’s largest gathering of climate scientists.
How the Ugliest Climate Fairy Tale Won
A preposterous climate yarn has taken center stage.
40 Days in Brazil
Forty thousand Brazilians have died of the coronavirus in the past 40 days.
Retracted Papers Written by Journal VIP
The lead author of two retracted COVID-19 papers is editor-in-chief of an Elsevier medical journal.
The Swedish Teenager Interfering in Canadian Politics
Democracy dies when activists wield more influence than voters.
Fantasy Wish List Masquerades as Climate Poll
Green lobby group invites public to endorse green fantasies.
When Government Tells You Whose Balls to Touch
First came the virus. Then new rules for recreational tennis.
Racism, Magical Thinking & the Coronavirus
Rather than quarantining travelers, our leaders chose a course of action that led to entire countries being locked down.
Early March Did Not Predict the Future
Certain adamant coronavirus declarations look foolish now.
This Blog Will Return May 20th
In the interim, I recommend this brilliant essay on what the coronavirus has taught us.
Civil Liberties, the Economy & Typhoid Mary
Let us not be cavalier about the coronavirus. Let us pay proper respect to the dead.
Losing Doctors on the Battlefield
176 61 physicians have died in Italy. They’re also dying in France, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
When Is A Pandemic Not A Pandemic?
The World Health Organization is playing games.
UNESCO: Prosecute Climate Criminals
If voters elect leaders who reject climate treaties, those leaders will be dragged before an international court. The UN: neutralizing dissent one way or another.
The UN’s Planet Saving Delusion
It couldn’t help Haiti recover from an earthquake, but the UN’s gonna rescue the planet.
Poll Results: Climate Is Always Low Priority
There is no evidence that climate change has ever been a top concern for most Americans.
Mission Accomplished, Starbucks
When I walk into a coffee shop, the last thing I need is someone pressuring me about my carbon footprint.
Here’s Who Pressured the Medical Journal
Do we want to live in a world in which medical journals are afraid to publish certain conclusions?
Cancel Culture Hits Medical Journals
Anti-meat experts ask external bodies to suppress rival research.
Newspapers: Betrayers of the Public’s Trust
Journalists abandon professionalism, repudiate free speech.
Speaking in Calgary, April 6th – Tickets Now Available
CANCELLED. Climate activists want your freedom. They’re impeding your ability to choose, in one arena after another.
Fishy Findings: 100% Replication Failure
Eight fish studies were double-checked. Not one was accurate.
Journalists: We Want Censorship
Official editorial in Canadian newspaper calls for climate skeptics to be silenced.
Decades of Public Opinion: Climate Change Not on the Radar
Vast majority don’t mention climate when asked about important problems.
Tipping Points: The Big Picture
The UN said we were at a tipping point in 2007. And in 2009. In a single decade, the media talked about climate tipping points 14,000 times.
Will Trump Smash Academic Paywalls?
US taxpayers pay three times over for scientific research.
Balanced, Static Nature: The Grand Illusion
Change is natural and normal. Let us eat, drink, and be merry.
Young People Distressed About Climate Change
Forget fear and pessimism. Step into the sunlight & soar.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
If we’ve heard only one side of a debate, we can’t claim to be fully informed.
Climate Activists Aren’t Joking
Saving the planet: the all-purpose, never-ending justification for more taxes, control, and deprivation.
Climategate: 10 Year Anniversary Reading List
Forget the shallow, conformist media narrative. There’s plenty of sound, perceptive analysis.
The Corals That Don’t Exist
Peer-reviewed science is contradicted by the real world.
Fake Polar Bear Shortage, Fake Indigenous Solidarity
Are activists and academics so committed to a non-existent polar bear shortage they’re willing to sacrifice Inuit lives?
The UVic, Susan Crockford Story Continues
Refuse to talk to the reporter. Afterward, accuse her of ‘multiple factual inaccuracies.’ Isn’t academia grand?
Facebook’s False Fact Check
There’s no guarantee scientific research is credible or accurate just because it has been peer-reviewed. Why is Facebook promoting this lie?
University Feels No Need to Explain: Crockford Story Part 2
The University of Victoria receives hundreds of millions of tax dollars, yet refused to answer a single question about the firing of Susan Crockford.
The Excommunication of Susan Crockford
Polar bear expert purged from the University of Victoria.
Retracted Ocean Warming Paper & the IPCC
A new UN report relies on discredited research – and on academics who conceal vital information.
U of Victoria’s Speakers Bureau
Many of the talks being provided to the community are one-sided, activist, and controversial.
Real Leadership vs Climate Grandstanding
If the crisis is real, why don’t prominent individuals act like it?
Green Idealists vs the Real World
There’s unicorns, fairness & equity. Then there’s what’s possible.
Forget the Heroics, Just Pick Up the Trash
Recycling programs should make sense and be boring.
Google, Groupthink & the Media
The media fosters intellectual conformity. Is Google taking the same path?
The Elites, the Media & the Little People
Google pampers the already pampered at $20 million climate extravaganza.
The Climate Curse: Reprogramming Our Moral Compass
The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice. So do we.
Freedom to Read, to Think, to Speak
Censorship is gaining traction in Canada. To a frightening degree.
Extreme Politics: The Roger Pielke Jr. Story
Rabid dog climate enforcers will destroy you without conscience or regret.
Refuting the Smear Machine – Part 1
When a journalist thinks for herself about climate change, insults & fabrications follow.
Defending My Honour
Anonymous allegations are republished by an allegedly respectable website.
Australian Elites Equally Bonkers
The rural/urban divide is as pronounced in Australia as elsewhere.
UN Targets the Sand People
Allegations that mining threatens wildlife rely on activist ‘evidence.’
IPCC Clone Predicts Doom
Once again, the ‘world’s leading scientists’ provide cover for UN machinations.
Street Preacher Greta Thunberg
Don’t you listen to the street preacher. He ain’t nothing but a false teacher.
Peter Ridd vs The Dishonourables
A powerful bureaucracy bullies, berates, isolates & intimidates a lone critic.
The Splendid Peter Ridd Court Judgment
James Cook University took 28 separate actions against Professor Ridd. Each of them, including his termination, has been declared unlawful.
Mice, Medical Research & the Media
Reputable media outlets routinely mislead the public when reporting the latest scientific discoveries.
10th Anniversary Fundraiser
If I’ve helped you better understand the climate debate, the IPCC, the shortcomings of academic research, or that Borg-like entity known as the United Nations, please let me know.
This Destructive Green Fantasy
Climate change good intentions are causing grave harm.
Canada’s Carbon Tax Will Kill People
‘Winter mortality is lower when the price of heating is lower’: new research report.
When Government Lies to You
Carbon dioxide is not pollution. Our planet would be a wasteland without it, bereft of both plants and animals.
UN Abandons Hijab Rebellion Lawyer
2 days after lawyer is sentenced to 33 years, Iran appointed to women’s rights committee.
The Media & the WWF Torture Scandal
News organizations have turned their own journalists into WWF cheerleaders.
Birds, Wind Turbines & Nuclear Power
How many birds should we slaughter in the name of saving the planet?
Parasite Green Lawyers Target Toilet Paper
Everyone’s standard of living drops as daily necessities become more costly.
Zombie UN Body Now Regulates Your Car
An obscure UN body established to rebuild WW2 Europe, is now determining international automobile brake standards.
UN Thwarts Slum Schools – Part 1
Instructs UK to stop assisting parent-financed schools – under the guise of enforcing the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.
What Happens When We Sign a UN Treaty?
If I were trying to parody intrusive UN behaviour could I have invented a more absurd document?
UN Has No Authority Over Me – But Is Working Hard to Change That
Nations have been demoted; on the top level of the org chart we now find the Borg.
International Law: Stealing Our Freedom
Goodbye self-determination. Hello authoritarian conformity.
Lancet EAT Report Promotes Activism Over Science
Medical journals are supposed to be the opposite of fake news.
What Would a No-Borders World Look Like?
Good intentions aren’t enough. Once broken, some things cannot be mended.
Democracy Dies Without National Borders
A nation’s voters decide their own fate, but only their own.
The EU’s Immigration-Fueled Nightmare
A report outlines a dystopian future in which EU citizens find themselves outnumbered 7 to 1 by recent arrivals. This is cultural genocide.
Global Poverty Can’t Be Solved With Immigration
Economic migrants are distinct from refugees running for their lives. But the two are increasingly blurred.
Climate Skeptics: The Despised Minority
Vilifying climate heretics remains socially acceptable.
Whistler Ski Resort Plays Climate Scold, Gets Scalded
Jack Crompton, the mayor of Whistler, has damaged his community but gained nothing.
The Anti-Democratic United Nations
Presidents and Prime Ministers come and go. The smug, bloated, out-of-touch UN machine persists.
At the Morocco Meeting on Migration
Norway champions free speech, firmly rejects migration as a human right.
About Those French Protests: 5 Insights
Ordinary people loathe carbon taxes – and might bring down your government.
UN Migration Pact: Normalizing State Censorship
Which parts of this agreement do our governments intend to implement? Which parts do they repudiate?
UN Pact Doesn’t Define ‘Migrant’
A historic agreement to ‘strengthen migrant rights’ doesn’t explain who qualifies.
Jordan Peterson: Climate Change Won’t Unite Us
Concern about global warming is dead last amongst 16 priorities.
Recycling: Wasting Your Time & Your Money
Spending scarce resources on a separate collection system for material no one wants isn’t sensible.
Competing Worldviews
Attempting to understand why people vote the way they do is more useful than sneering at half a country’s population.
Systematically Ignorant Nobel Laureates
Scientists score lower than chimpanzees when quizzed about basic, state-of-the-world facts.
UN Climate Panel: Meaningless Mental Masturbation
Scores of scientific minds. So much tomfoolery.
IPCC: Where Dictators Overrule Scientists
No matter how undemocratic, impoverished, sparsely-populated, or terrorism-promoting a nation might be, a sentence written by scientists will not survive if that nation objects.
Stories Versus Facts
Last week, in a sickening spectacle, grownups behaved as though a vague, wholly unproven story involving teenagers 30+ years ago is relevant to whether a candidate is fit to be a US Supreme Court judge.
Harvard’s Social Justice Infection
‘Social justice’ is an extremist, left wing political analysis many consider repellent and infantile. It’s as though academics have no idea the rest of us think they’ve gone insane.
Yale: Social Justice Training Camp
Entities explicitly committed to social justice: Yale’s School of Nursing, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Art, religious organizations.
The Nightmare on Campus
Reading Heather Mac Donald’s new book is like stepping into a bad dream.
Beware Swedish Election Coverage
Every time the media mentions the Sweden Democrats, we’re reminded of sins decades in the past. But there’s no parallel, incessant reminder of the Green Party’s documented links to the Nazis.
The Earthquake About to Hit Sweden
Sweden’s population: 10 million. France and UK total population: 133 million. Sweden has accepted more asylum seekers than France and UK combined.
Public Trust & Press Freedom
There’s a world of difference between denouncing media bias and sending in the military to close television stations.
The Media’s War on the Public
When Donald Trump rails against fake news he speaks for millions of people who are tired of being silenced and smeared.
InfoWars Ban: Why Hermione Granger is Smiling
The people who removed InfoWars content from Facebook, YouTube, and iTunes this week need to re-read the fifth Harry Potter book.
Plastic Straw Ban: Humorous Memes
Online jokes about plastic straws provide welcome comic relief.
Ocean Plastic: The 1% Solution vs the 55% Solution
If we want to protect the ocean from plastic, we need to think strategically.
Coercing Your Neighbour Over Plastic Straws
Green activists are in the business of taking away choices.
More Oxford University Fake News
A webpage vetted by Oxford is misleading the public about a fake geological era.
Greenpeace’s Nazca Vandalism: Half-Truths & Trifling Consequences
Only one person has been held accountable. To this day, Greenpeace refuses to identify the full list of culprits.
Oxford University Spreads Fake News
The most reputable publishers imaginable are misinforming the public about basic geology.
Anthropocene: The Media’s Fake Geological Epoch
Journalists declaring something to be the case before it has actually happened is outrageous and unethical.
The Recycled Plastic Scandal
Green groups fantasize about a world in which everything is virtuously recycled. They’re prepared to use other nations as refuse heaps in pursuit of that fantasy.
Hallucinations in High Places (More on the 1988 Hansen Climate Hearing)
Powerful people construct amazingly inaccurate narratives about their own lives.
Banning Plastic Straws, Harming Real People
Causing real harm with no realistic chance of improving the world makes no sense.
Ehrlich’s Guide to Being an Intrusive A**hole
People with 8 kids should be told they “surely would not behave that way today.” Those considering a third should be accused of self-indulgence.
Anything Goes When You’re Saving the World
Paul Ehrlich advocated the use of US helicopters so that Indian peasants could be kidnapped & forcibly sterilized.
How They Sold ‘The Population Bomb’
Threats of famine, dead children, bombs, nuclear war, and oblivion.
Coleman Hughes on the ‘Racism Treadmill’
We regularly urge young people to think outside the box. Hughes is doing just that.
Totalitarian Thinker David Suzuki
On June 7th, the University of Alberta will lionize someone who rejects freedom of thought.
David Suzuki’s Actions Speak Louder Than His Words
He decries over-population, but fathers 5 kids. He’s against economic growth, but his once-tiny foundation now has offices in 3 cities.
Skin in the Game
Emotionally attached to ideas, some of us have little interest in how they perform in the real world.
Europe’s Jews Are Living in Fear
Naive compassion for some people endangers the safety of others.
Why is Discrimination Against Asians OK?
Full-fledged racism is being practiced by the very institutions that claim to abhor it.
Polar Bears & the Sleazy New York Times
A gang of 14 scientists attack a lone scientist in an academic journal. Erica Goode justifies & amplifies the assault in the Times.
Climate Change in the Courts
For well-funded green groups (and a growing list of governments), lawyers are weapons and courtrooms are a political battleground.
When Scientific Evidence is Ambiguous, Private Philosophies Matter
Some discoveries are easy to measure and easy to verify. But much of science is about groping in the dark.