Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said investment and support will continue to flow into her state’s mining industry despite Australia’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Global decarbonisation ambitions, recently the focus of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, did not mean a “zero-sum game” for the resources extraction industry in mineral-rich Queensland, the premier…
Net Zero Target Not ‘Zero-Sum Game’ for Mining Jobs: Premier Palaszczuk
Scientists: Global Cooling Imminent
November 23, 2021
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In an exclusive interview, scientist Valentina Zharkova told The Epoch Times that her 2015 paper predicting the onset of a grand solar minimum between 2020 and 2053 has been borne out, prompting her to warn that temperatures could soon rapidly fall. Grand solar minima last for multiple solar cycles, during which the sun produces less…
Winter 2022: A Season of Painful Enlightenment?
Commentary There are times when politics resembles the theater of the absurd. This is one of those times. We just witnessed the spectacle of heads of state gathering in Glasgow trying to find ways to curtail the production and consumption of fossil fuels at the very time that the people they supposedly represent face a…
Canada’s Climate Finance Record a Hint at Global Initiative’s Challenges
Climate finance, one of the pillars of the UN climate conference, has a number of shortcomings for which Canada’s experience in the arena can provide some lessons.
The Coming Coal Crisis
November 17, 2021
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News Analysis As COP26 drew to a close, the great and the good who converged on Glasgow, Scotland, appeared relatively united in rhetoric, if not in enforceable commitments. Their views have been clear. For the world to slow human-caused global warming, fossil fuels—particularly coal—must largely, and quickly, be abandoned. The final language in the COP26 decision…
COP 26: It’s Time for the Make-Believe to Stop
Commentary The first snowfall in Ottawa accompanies news that the great climate change conference in Glasgow, COP26, succeeded brilliantly in kicking the can down the road. Hooray. After all, we have all the time in the world, right? Guys? John Kennedy once cited an “old saying” that “victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is…
If China Cares About the World’s Forests, Then Why Is It Destroying Them?
Commentary More than 100 world leaders recently committed to put an end to deforestation by the end of the decade. China was one of the countries promising to save the world’s forests. Are we witnessing a new, climate-conscious China? Does Xi Jinping really care about the trees? Well, the answer to both questions, not surprisingly,…
China Signs Climate Agreement With US to Stall for Time: Experts
November 15, 2021
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At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the United States and China issued a non-legally valid joint statement on Nov. 10 promising to strengthen actions against climate change in the next ten years. Experts believe that the Chinese communist regime is not a sincere partner on climate change issues and there’s another motive…
After Glasgow, 1.5 Is Dead—Get Over It
Commentary The Glasgow climate conference represents a strategic defeat for the West, and for Britain in particular. Boris Johnson unleashed everything he could muster. The royal family hosted receptions for multibillionaires. The Foreign Office sent climate envoys around the world. Glasgow would show the world that Britain could outdo France’s performance six years ago at…
Australia’s Coal Industry Will Not Lose Steam Despite Global Climate Ambitions: PM
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has argued the nation’s coal industry will continue for decades to come despite United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing the “death knell” for coal power. “No, I don’t believe it did [sound the death knell of coal],” Morrison told reporters on Nov. 15. “For all of those who are…
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