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B.C. Carbon tax not reducing emissions as promised
Author: Carson Binda 2025/01/15
News Release British Columbia
VANCOUVER, B.C.: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the British Columbia government to scrap the carbon tax as new data shows the province’s carbon emissions have continued to rise, despite the oldest carbon tax in the country.
“The carbon tax isn’t reducing carbon emissions like the politicians promised,” said Carson Binda, B.C. Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. “Premier David Eby needs to axe the tax now to save British Columbians money.”
Emissions data from the provincial government shows that British Columbia’s emissions have risen since the introduction of a carbon tax.
Total emissions in 2007, the last year without a provincial carbon tax, stood at 65.5 MtCO2e, while 2022 emissions data shows an increase to 65.6 MtCO2e.
When the carbon tax was introduced, the B.C. government pledged that it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33 per cent.
The Eby government plans to increase the B.C. carbon tax again on April 1, 2025. After that increase, the carbon tax will add 21 cents to the cost of a litre of natural gas, 25 cents per litre of diesel and 18 cents per cubic meter of natural gas.
“The carbon tax has cost British Columbians a lot of money, but it hasn’t helped the environment as promised,” Binda said. “Eby has a simple choice: scrap the carbon tax before April 1, or force British Columbians to pay even more to heat our homes and drive to work.”
If a family fills up the minivan once per week for a year, the carbon tax will cost them $728. The carbon tax on natural gas will add $435 to the average family's home heating bills in the 12 months after the April 1 carbon tax hike.
Other provinces, like Saskatchewan, have unilaterally stopped collecting the carbon tax on essentials like home heating and have not faced consequences from Ottawa.
“British Columbians need real relief from the costs of the provincial carbon tax,” Binda said. “Eby needs to stop waiting for permission from the leaderless federal government and scrap the tax on British Columbians.”
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Author: Carson Binda 2025/01/15
News Release British Columbia
VANCOUVER, B.C.: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the British Columbia government to scrap the carbon tax as new data shows the province’s carbon emissions have continued to rise, despite the oldest carbon tax in the country.
“The carbon tax isn’t reducing carbon emissions like the politicians promised,” said Carson Binda, B.C. Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. “Premier David Eby needs to axe the tax now to save British Columbians money.”
Emissions data from the provincial government shows that British Columbia’s emissions have risen since the introduction of a carbon tax.
Total emissions in 2007, the last year without a provincial carbon tax, stood at 65.5 MtCO2e, while 2022 emissions data shows an increase to 65.6 MtCO2e.
When the carbon tax was introduced, the B.C. government pledged that it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33 per cent.
The Eby government plans to increase the B.C. carbon tax again on April 1, 2025. After that increase, the carbon tax will add 21 cents to the cost of a litre of natural gas, 25 cents per litre of diesel and 18 cents per cubic meter of natural gas.
“The carbon tax has cost British Columbians a lot of money, but it hasn’t helped the environment as promised,” Binda said. “Eby has a simple choice: scrap the carbon tax before April 1, or force British Columbians to pay even more to heat our homes and drive to work.”
If a family fills up the minivan once per week for a year, the carbon tax will cost them $728. The carbon tax on natural gas will add $435 to the average family's home heating bills in the 12 months after the April 1 carbon tax hike.
Other provinces, like Saskatchewan, have unilaterally stopped collecting the carbon tax on essentials like home heating and have not faced consequences from Ottawa.
“British Columbians need real relief from the costs of the provincial carbon tax,” Binda said. “Eby needs to stop waiting for permission from the leaderless federal government and scrap the tax on British Columbians.”
Newsroom
Nearly 80 million Americans will be below 0°F by next Tuesday when extremely cold Canadian / Siberian Arctic air descends on the Lower 48. fossil fuels is required to keep warm
Polar vortex, another extreme weather event that is increasing because of climate change.Nearly 80 million Americans will be below 0°F by next Tuesday when extremely cold Canadian / Siberian Arctic air descends on the Lower 48. fossil fuels is required to keep warm
Media Push 2024 Hottest Year Narrative, Overlook El Nino, Flawed Data And Climate Trends
A number of mainstream media outlets have uncritically echoed the proclamation of 2024 being the “hottest year on record,” such as, CNN with a story titled, “2024 Confirmed as World’s Hottest Year on Record”, and the BBC with a headline that declared, “2024 Confirmed as Hottest Year Ever Recorded.” When these media reports are examined in long-term historical context of the available global temperature data, it becomes clear that the claims lack the certainty their headlines proclaim and are likely false or exaggerated.
A close examination reveals that such declarations are predominantly based on data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (CCCS), a European organization but only one of several global temperature monitoring systems. Their press release, 2024 – a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 became immediately re-used by media outlets around the world.
The CCCS says:
The year 2024 was the warmest year since global records began in 1850 at 1.29°C (2.32°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F). This value is 0.10°C (0.18°F) more than the previous record set last year. The ten warmest years in the 175-year record have all occurred during the last decade (2015–2024).
While NOAA repeats the “hottest year on record” claim, their numbers differ from Copernicus, undermining any confidence one might have in the precision of the global average temperature measurements for 2024, and any record breaking claims flowing from their disparate data measurements.
Further, these claims completely ignore the evidence based research, such as the surface stations project conducted by The Heartland Institute, showing that the Urban Heat Island effect and the poor placement of temperature stations used to measure temperatures, from which long-term temperature data is gathered, may account for as much as 50 percent of recent warming, with the remainder likely being partly or wholly natural, such as being driven by El Niño events.
It’s also worth noting that the phrase “hottest year on record” typically refers to records spanning about 150 years—a mere blink in geological time. Paleoclimatological evidence shows that Earth has experienced periods with significantly hotter temperatures long before industrial revolution. For instance, during the Eemian interglacial period around 120,000 years ago, global temperatures were comparable to or even exceeded current levels.
See the graph below from a scientific study titled “A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature.”
How quickly they forget: Media Confirms the Earth Is Not Abnormally Warm, Rather It Is in Its Coldest Period in 485 Million Years. Proxy data also suggests temperatures in more recent periods, like the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Climate Optimum were likely comparable to or even higher than they are today, despite carbon dioxide levels being significantly lower.
In the rush to blame climate change for 2024’s temperatures, the media also underappreciates the impact of natural climate phenomena such as El Niño on temperatures in 2023 and 2024. This creates an oversimplified narrative that ignores the complexities of climate systems. The El Niño event in of 2023-2024 has been a major contributor to the recent global temperature anomalies, with many reports stating that it significantly boosted global temperatures compared to a neutral ocean pattern state, making 2024 one of the hottest years on record; this is due to the warming ocean surface temperatures associated with El Niño adding to the overall heat in the climate system.
According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, following the conclusion of the 2023–2024 El Niño event, there has been a notable decline in ocean temperatures. This cooling trend is particularly evident in the eastern and central tropical Pacific regions. NOAA reported that by December 2024, La Niña conditions had emerged, characterized by below-average sea surface temperatures across these areas.
Oceans are considered the biggest influence on atmospheric temperature, as they absorb the majority of the sun’s radiation, acting as a massive heat reservoir that regulates global climate by storing and distributing heat around the planet through ocean currents; this means that changes in ocean temperature significantly affect the overall atmospheric temperature. Therefore, with cooling oceans, it stands to reason that cooler global atmospheric temperatures are likely ahead for 2025.
In summary, while global temperatures have gradually risen in recent decades, it is unclear whether portraying 2024 as unequivocally the “hottest year on record” is justified, or rather whether it is a temporary anomaly reflecting, in part, a combination of natural conditions and human measurement error.
What is clear is that regardless of the global average temperature human welfare has never been better. According to Our World in Data, average life expectancy has more than doubled during the recent warming. Further, deaths from extreme weather are markedly down, and deaths tied to temperatures have declined because cold kills more people than warmth.
CNN and BBC do a great disservice to their audiences by not placing their claims in the broader historical context of long-term temperatures and data, and by downplaying or ignoring entirely natural weather phenomena, and problematic temperature measurement conditions, which impact temperature measurements, when asserting that temperatures are the highest on record. An approach that considers the full range of scientific data, historical context, and natural variability would provide a more accurate and less alarming understanding of our planet’s climate dynamics.
Unfortunately, as Climate Realism has demonstrated repeatedly, the media seems more interested in pushing a climate doom narrative than factually reporting the complex truth about climate.
Media Push 2024 Hottest Year Narrative, Overlook El Nino, Flawed Data And Climate Trends - Climate Change Dispatch
A number of mainstream media outlets have uncritically echoed the proclamation of 2024 being the “hottest year on record,” such as, CNN with a story titled, “2024 Confirmed as World’s Hottest Year on Record”, and the BBC with a headline that declared, “2024 Confirmed as Hottest Year Ever Recorded.” When these media reports are examined in long-term historical context of the available global temperature data, it becomes clear that the claims lack the certainty their headlines proclaim and are likely false or exaggerated.
A close examination reveals that such declarations are predominantly based on data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (CCCS), a European organization but only one of several global temperature monitoring systems. Their press release, 2024 – a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 became immediately re-used by media outlets around the world.
The CCCS says:
- 2024 was the warmest year in a multi-dataset record of global temperature going back to 1850.
- 2024 had a global average temperature of 15.10°C; 0.12°C higher than the previous highest annual value in 2023.
- 2024 was 0.72°C warmer than the 1991–2020 average, and 1.60°C warmer than the pre-industrial level, making it the first calendar year to exceed 1.5 above that level
The year 2024 was the warmest year since global records began in 1850 at 1.29°C (2.32°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F). This value is 0.10°C (0.18°F) more than the previous record set last year. The ten warmest years in the 175-year record have all occurred during the last decade (2015–2024).
While NOAA repeats the “hottest year on record” claim, their numbers differ from Copernicus, undermining any confidence one might have in the precision of the global average temperature measurements for 2024, and any record breaking claims flowing from their disparate data measurements.
Further, these claims completely ignore the evidence based research, such as the surface stations project conducted by The Heartland Institute, showing that the Urban Heat Island effect and the poor placement of temperature stations used to measure temperatures, from which long-term temperature data is gathered, may account for as much as 50 percent of recent warming, with the remainder likely being partly or wholly natural, such as being driven by El Niño events.
It’s also worth noting that the phrase “hottest year on record” typically refers to records spanning about 150 years—a mere blink in geological time. Paleoclimatological evidence shows that Earth has experienced periods with significantly hotter temperatures long before industrial revolution. For instance, during the Eemian interglacial period around 120,000 years ago, global temperatures were comparable to or even exceeded current levels.
See the graph below from a scientific study titled “A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature.”
How quickly they forget: Media Confirms the Earth Is Not Abnormally Warm, Rather It Is in Its Coldest Period in 485 Million Years. Proxy data also suggests temperatures in more recent periods, like the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Climate Optimum were likely comparable to or even higher than they are today, despite carbon dioxide levels being significantly lower.
In the rush to blame climate change for 2024’s temperatures, the media also underappreciates the impact of natural climate phenomena such as El Niño on temperatures in 2023 and 2024. This creates an oversimplified narrative that ignores the complexities of climate systems. The El Niño event in of 2023-2024 has been a major contributor to the recent global temperature anomalies, with many reports stating that it significantly boosted global temperatures compared to a neutral ocean pattern state, making 2024 one of the hottest years on record; this is due to the warming ocean surface temperatures associated with El Niño adding to the overall heat in the climate system.
According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, following the conclusion of the 2023–2024 El Niño event, there has been a notable decline in ocean temperatures. This cooling trend is particularly evident in the eastern and central tropical Pacific regions. NOAA reported that by December 2024, La Niña conditions had emerged, characterized by below-average sea surface temperatures across these areas.
Oceans are considered the biggest influence on atmospheric temperature, as they absorb the majority of the sun’s radiation, acting as a massive heat reservoir that regulates global climate by storing and distributing heat around the planet through ocean currents; this means that changes in ocean temperature significantly affect the overall atmospheric temperature. Therefore, with cooling oceans, it stands to reason that cooler global atmospheric temperatures are likely ahead for 2025.
In summary, while global temperatures have gradually risen in recent decades, it is unclear whether portraying 2024 as unequivocally the “hottest year on record” is justified, or rather whether it is a temporary anomaly reflecting, in part, a combination of natural conditions and human measurement error.
What is clear is that regardless of the global average temperature human welfare has never been better. According to Our World in Data, average life expectancy has more than doubled during the recent warming. Further, deaths from extreme weather are markedly down, and deaths tied to temperatures have declined because cold kills more people than warmth.
CNN and BBC do a great disservice to their audiences by not placing their claims in the broader historical context of long-term temperatures and data, and by downplaying or ignoring entirely natural weather phenomena, and problematic temperature measurement conditions, which impact temperature measurements, when asserting that temperatures are the highest on record. An approach that considers the full range of scientific data, historical context, and natural variability would provide a more accurate and less alarming understanding of our planet’s climate dynamics.
Unfortunately, as Climate Realism has demonstrated repeatedly, the media seems more interested in pushing a climate doom narrative than factually reporting the complex truth about climate.
Media Push 2024 Hottest Year Narrative, Overlook El Nino, Flawed Data And Climate Trends - Climate Change Dispatch
How The 1970s Ice Age Scare Was A Blueprint For Today’s Climate Hysteria
The Frights Of Climate Catastrophe From The Disco Era
“Y.M.C.A.” is back and badder than ever. President-elect Donald Trump helped to resurrect the 1978 disco icon. Yet some in the media are not hitting the dance floor and the sphere of “settled science” is trying to bury the cultural climate of the 1970s. [emphasis, links added]
Today’s popular narrative about climate change that contends the public and scientists in the 1970s were not all that concerned about global cooling during that decade can be categorized as disinformation, or at least misinformation.
I was an undergraduate student of meteorology at Penn State in the mid-70s and, even with published papers to the contrary, there was a real concern about the emergence of a new ice age. (Beyond Penn State, some nonscience students were warned that soon polar bears might be roaming New York City. That turned out to be true, but thankfully the bears have been confined to the Central Park Zoo.)
Perhaps a majority of scientists weren’t overly worried that the downward global temperature trend since the 1940s would continue; however, I don’t recall much angst over imminent global warming either.
Also, stories in Time, Newsweek, and other popular magazines sensitized people to a worldwide cooling trend.
And the public was primed for disastrous chilling with books confidently stating, “A handful of scientists denied evidence that the Earth’s climate was cooling until the 1970s, when bizarre weather throughout the world forced them to reconsider their views” (from The Cooling by Lowell Ponte, 1976).
The book’s cover pondered: “Has the next ice age already begun? Can we survive it?”
Or, from Our Changing Weather: Forecast of Disaster? by Claude Rose in 1977:
After informing John Maddox, the editor of the prestigious journal Nature in 1989, of the contents of Our Changing Weather book, he replied:
Society at large was alerted to the dangers of cooling with a Christian tract posing “Need We Fear Another Ice Age?” by Walter Lang and Vic Lockman.
And Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original Star Trek television series, even did a broadcast segment titled “In Search of the Coming Ice Age.”
Overall, without the aid of the internet in the 1970s, widespread, costly fearmongering about a frosty climate cataclysm was mitigated.
Eventually, the 1980s saw the scare that began with the “greenhouse effect” morph into overheated “global warming,” then the calamitous “climate change,” and now to all sorts of frightening memes and monikers.
Considering the history of confident climate claims, the general populace has a right to be skeptical of what has been asserted as “settled science” regarding climate change.
No matter, regardless of impending warming or cooling, as a disco diva also sang in 1978: “I will survive.” My guess is that the planet will too.
Read more at Examiner
How The 1970s Ice Age Scare Was A Blueprint For Today's Climate Hysteria - Climate Change Dispatch
The Frights Of Climate Catastrophe From The Disco Era
“Y.M.C.A.” is back and badder than ever. President-elect Donald Trump helped to resurrect the 1978 disco icon. Yet some in the media are not hitting the dance floor and the sphere of “settled science” is trying to bury the cultural climate of the 1970s. [emphasis, links added]
Today’s popular narrative about climate change that contends the public and scientists in the 1970s were not all that concerned about global cooling during that decade can be categorized as disinformation, or at least misinformation.
I was an undergraduate student of meteorology at Penn State in the mid-70s and, even with published papers to the contrary, there was a real concern about the emergence of a new ice age. (Beyond Penn State, some nonscience students were warned that soon polar bears might be roaming New York City. That turned out to be true, but thankfully the bears have been confined to the Central Park Zoo.)
Perhaps a majority of scientists weren’t overly worried that the downward global temperature trend since the 1940s would continue; however, I don’t recall much angst over imminent global warming either.
Also, stories in Time, Newsweek, and other popular magazines sensitized people to a worldwide cooling trend.
And the public was primed for disastrous chilling with books confidently stating, “A handful of scientists denied evidence that the Earth’s climate was cooling until the 1970s, when bizarre weather throughout the world forced them to reconsider their views” (from The Cooling by Lowell Ponte, 1976).
The book’s cover pondered: “Has the next ice age already begun? Can we survive it?”
Or, from Our Changing Weather: Forecast of Disaster? by Claude Rose in 1977:
The front cover of this book teased: “Will our fuel run out? Will our food be destroyed? Will we freeze?”
After informing John Maddox, the editor of the prestigious journal Nature in 1989, of the contents of Our Changing Weather book, he replied:
Furthermore, youngsters were prepped for a coming icy catastrophe. The dust jacket of an elementary school book, The New Ice Age by Henry Gilfond (1978), displayed [three] large thermometers lined up to show ominously declining temperatures.
Society at large was alerted to the dangers of cooling with a Christian tract posing “Need We Fear Another Ice Age?” by Walter Lang and Vic Lockman.
And Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original Star Trek television series, even did a broadcast segment titled “In Search of the Coming Ice Age.”
Overall, without the aid of the internet in the 1970s, widespread, costly fearmongering about a frosty climate cataclysm was mitigated.
Eventually, the 1980s saw the scare that began with the “greenhouse effect” morph into overheated “global warming,” then the calamitous “climate change,” and now to all sorts of frightening memes and monikers.
Considering the history of confident climate claims, the general populace has a right to be skeptical of what has been asserted as “settled science” regarding climate change.
No matter, regardless of impending warming or cooling, as a disco diva also sang in 1978: “I will survive.” My guess is that the planet will too.
Read more at Examiner
How The 1970s Ice Age Scare Was A Blueprint For Today's Climate Hysteria - Climate Change Dispatch
