Tag: UNFCCC
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China’s Climate Confidence Trick
by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2025 (Sep. 6, 2025) — China is pulling a fast one on western nations and it is about time we called them on it. For example, on July 24th, representatives from the EU and China met at a summit in Beijing to discuss their plans to reduce greenhouse gas…
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Ontario’s New Premier Must Save the Province
NEITHER ONTARIO NOR ANY COUNTRY SHOULD FOLLOW ITS EXAMPLE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, ©2018 (Jun. 28, 2018) — On March 8, 2018, former US Vice President Al Gore visited Ontario, Canada in an attempt to help then-Premier Kathleen Wynne win the June 7 provincial election. Gore said,…
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New UN Climate Change Report Cannot be Trusted
“POLITICALLY NECESSARY” by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, ©2017 (Aug. 3, 2017) — Between July 31 and September 24, climate experts from around the world are providing comments on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5°C Global Warming (SR15). We can expect SR15 to be highly biased and simply ignore findings that…
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Time to Debunk Misguided Science Underlying Paris Climate Agreement
“THE BIGGEST DECEPTION IN HISTORY” by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, ©2017 (Jul. 7, 2017) — On June 1, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the United Nations Paris Agreement on climate change. He correctly identified it as a very bad deal for America. In July 1997, the U.S.…
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Developing Countries Will Ignore Emission Targets
OBAMA MUST EXPLAIN HOW HIS ACTIONS DO NOT VIOLATE CONSTITUTION by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Apr. 26, 2016) — President Obama asserts that the United Nations Paris Agreement is “the first time so many countries had committed to ambitious, nationally determined climate targets.” Yet the likelihood that China and other “developing country Parties,”…
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Harper’s Climate Pledge is Hot Air
CANADA HAS NO WAY TO ENSURE THAT DEVELOPING NATIONS KEEP THEIR COMMITMENTS by Tom Harris, ©2015 (May 28, 2015) — In announcing the Stephen Harper government’s new greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets earlier this month, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Canada will “work with our international partners to establish an international agreement in Paris that includes…