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To win the climate debate, we must use the same tools that were used to defeat science and common sense

By Tom Harris - posted Monday, 20 January 2025


Climate alarmists in government, the press, universities, etc. also need to be taken to task for the huge increase in electricity rates that is the natural result of the transition to wind and solar power. After all, it is the poor and those on fixed incomes who most suffer when power rates go through the roof when "green energy" is introduced into the grid.

And of course there are many examples of how renewable energy such as biofuels are seriously violating human rights across the world. Quoting U.N. Special Rapporteur of the right to food, Jean Zeigler makes sense here:

"It is a crime against humanity to convert agricultural productive soil into soil which produces foodstuff that will be burned into biofuel." (2007)

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After citing the above examples of how the climate scare is violating real world "social justice" concerns, conservatives need to ask their opponents point blank in public meetings:

Is it ethical to enable policies that hurt people today because of the possible benefit to people yet to be born?

The following editorial cartoon, created on contract for ICSC, sums up the situation perfectly:

 

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Tom Harris is an Ottawa-based mechanical engineer and Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition.

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