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05/29/2026

📚 “Canari In a Climate World - Climate Realism vs. the ‘Net Zero’ Myth”
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Canary in a Climate World: Climate Realism vs. The Net Zero Myth (Canary In a Covid World / Climate Word)

05/21/2026

The Heartland Institute (www.Heartland.org) just released an innovative policy paper that identifies THE REAL CAUSES OF AFFORTABILITY CRISIS and identifies the solutions. It is making a difference already!

Heartland has always stood out from the crowd as an energetic free-market organization that sees through the false narratives of the day to pe*****te right to the truth. That’s what we’ve done with our work on housing affordability, through a series of articles, media appearances, podcasts, media outreach, videos, social media, and now our new paper titled Housing Affordability: America’s Short-Term Crisis and Long-Term Problem, written by Senior Fellow S. T. Karnick.

Though it has become a contentious issue only in the past two years, housing affordability has been a problem in the United States for decades. And no, the cause is not alleged capitalist greed and insufficient government spending! It is government itself. The affordability crisis is a product of government overreach, not greedy landlords, institutional investors, or so-called market failure.

A rapidly expanding American population has been forced into a tight housing supply that has been stagnant since the Great Recession of 2008-2009. A temporary but vicious bout of inflation caused by excessive government spending during and after the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated the problem into a crisis.

The crisis is having the worst effects on young people in the early years of their careers. Young Americans are turning toward socialism and ever-more government as the answer. Even self-described conservatives are calling for more government action, an influential poll by The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports recently found!

That is a tragic mistake. Absurdly high government spending and excessive regulation at all levels of government created this problem, as Heartland’s paper demonstrates in easily understandable terms and illuminating charts. Karnick explains why the crisis has hit Americans under the age of 40 particularly hard, what will stop that economic damage and reverse it, and how to achieve a long-term solution to America’s housing affordability problem: increasing the nation’s stagnant supply of housing.

While more housing is the answer, Congress and state and local governments are doubling down on what caused the problem: considering further restrictions on investment in housing, expanding government programs, and injecting more taxpayer money into the market. Cities across the country are imposing tighter zoning, higher taxes, overregulation, rent control, urban-growth boundaries, excessive building code requirements, and a myriad of other obstacles to housing construction and sales.

This week, the House of Representatives is considering a housing bill the Senate passed with an investment-killing restriction on homeownership. Democrat Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii called the provision “bananas” and “positively Soviet.” Thankfully, the House stripped out the provision, but a conference committee could put it right back in. Heartland released an op-ed by Karnick warning about the dire consequences of the provision.

We’re following up on the paper with a full-court press. In addition to further articles, media appearances, podcasts, and the like, we’re reaching young people by hitting social media with concise, smartly designed individual posts featuring charts that explain how government is making housing unaffordable. We’re also creating an exciting series of short videos that show how we can solve the crisis and make housing affordable again.

America’s affordability crisis is a major symptom of the nation’s decades-long drift away from its core principles of individual liberty and market freedom, into socialism and authoritarianism. Free markets did not create this affordability crisis. Far from it. Today’s housing market is anything but free.

The same is true of the nation’s economy. Free markets are not the problem. They are the solution!

Heartland tells young people that there is hope. Restoring a true, free market will expand access to the American Dream, and it is the only way to do so. The way to renew the American Dream is for government to get out of the way and let Americans do things the American Way. The affordability crisis demonstrates the truth of that, as Housing Affordability: America’s Short-Term Crisis and Long-Term Problem shows by exposing how governments at all levels created, sustained, and exacerbated the nation’s housing problem.

Thanks to your loyal support, Heartland is known worldwide for this type of innovative thinking and sound solutions. Our Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center serves as the “tip of the spear” in identifying and confronting the underreported and/or misreported challenges that undermine American sovereignty, individual liberty, and market freedom. The EIC brings these emerging threats to the forefront of public and political awareness, empowering citizens and policymakers alike to act in defense of freedom and a thriving free-market society, just as our new paper on the affordability crisis shows.

🫱 https://heartland.org/topics/emerging-issues-center/

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05/21/2026

WHEN CLIMATE SCIENCE COOLS DOWN, 🇨🇦 OTTAWA CONTINUES TO TAX

Sylvain CHARLEBOIS | Les Affaires - The Critical Fork | 2026-05-19 [DeepL translation]

“Science is constantly changing; it evolves with data and discoveries. The UN has just acknowledged this regarding the so-called climate crisis. At some point, our environmental policies will have to reflect what science tells us today.”

GUEST EXPERT. For years, we have been told that catastrophic climate scenarios justify just about every policy implemented in the name of reducing emissions. This rationale has, in fact, largely driven the Paris Agreement and several public policies adopted since then.

In the agri-food sector, this translates into rising costs at every level of the supply chain.

Even though Ottawa remains reluctant to acknowledge it openly, industrial carbon pricing continues to rise, in a political environment that is drifting further and further away from affordability, productivity, and competitiveness.

However, the scientific discourse is beginning to shift quietly but significantly. And curiously, very few Canadian media outlets are highlighting this. Unfortunately, many seem to take an interest in climate change only when it fuels a sense of urgency or climate panic… a rather strange modus operandi.

A recent article published in Geoscientific Model Development, related to the next generation of UN-backed climate models for the upcoming IPCC assessment cycle, suggests that certain extreme warming scenarios used for years are now considered less likely.

The famous SSP5-8.5 scenario, often presented as a “business as usual” scenario, was based on assumptions of massive growth in coal use, exceptional dependence on fossil fuels, and emissions trajectories increasingly out of step with current economic and technological realities.

Simply put, several leading climate scientists now acknowledge that it is becoming unlikely that humanity will follow the catastrophic trajectory that has dominated climate discourse over the past decade.

This should come as no surprise to anyone who understands how science actually works. Science is never “settled once and for all.” It evolves with new data. Models improve, assumptions are challenged, and risk assessments change over time. This is not a weakness of science; it is precisely its strength.

Even after Ottawa effectively reduced the carbon tax on consumer fuels to nearly zero by 2025, the carbon pricing system for industry remains fully in place and has now reached $110 per ton this year. These costs continue to ripple throughout the food economy: fertilizer production, transportation, refrigeration, processing, packaging, greenhouses, grain drying, and cold chain logistics.

It is possible that, as part of a broader agreement with Alberta announced last week, the industrial carbon tax will be frozen, reaching $130 only in 2040 rather than 2030. But we will have to wait and see what is actually implemented.

By their very nature, food systems are extremely energy-intensive. The Canadian agri-food sector operates in a global market. When our costs rise faster than those of our American or international competitors, investment shifts, processing capacity erodes, and local production becomes less competitive. In the long term, this translates to more imports, weakened food sovereignty, and, ultimately, higher structural costs for consumers.

Changing the Response

Of course, none of this means that climate change should be ignored or downplayed. Agriculture remains vulnerable to environmental risks: droughts, floods, weather volatility, and changes in growing conditions. Canadian producers are familiar with these challenges.

However, the way our governments respond must change. Public policy should be based on balanced, evidence-based assessments, not remain trapped in extreme scenarios that many scientists themselves are now reevaluating.

Canada needs a more pragmatic agri-food policy—an approach focused more on the system’s resilience and competitiveness than on continuously adding costs.

This means improving transportation networks, developing water and irrigation infrastructure, accelerating the adoption of precision agriculture, investing in plant genetics and innovation, strengthening our national processing capacity, and increasing the efficiency and productivity of the entire food chain.

Innovation reduces emissions. Efficiency reduces waste. Productivity strengthens food security. Penalizing local production does not help achieve any of these goals.

The real danger today lies not in climate skepticism, but rather in the rigidity of environmental policies.

Much of Canada’s climate framework is based on assumptions that some scientists are now questioning.

However, challenging these assumptions has become politically sensitive after years in which worst-case scenarios were often presented as certainties rather than possibilities.

The result is a growing disconnect between economic realities and policy decisions.

Instead of resorting to automatic accusations of climate skepticism, we need a more balanced and pragmatic approach to climate policy.

In the agri-food sector in particular, we need an approach that reconciles environmental goals with affordability, competitiveness, and food security. A country cannot claim to champion sustainability while making food less affordable, weakening its domestic production, and undermining its own supply chains.

Following the scientific data on climate change should be a two-way process.

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05/15/2026

“Cow farts are destroying the environment.”

05/07/2026

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04/07/2026

"Climate Realism Rising"
Heartland Institute Conference will Challenge the WMO Climate Catastrophe Claims says Friends of Science Society

Friends of Science Society, April 7, 2026

Diverse climate science speakers at Heartland Institute's 16th International Conference on Climate (ICCC16) will challenge the sole focus on human-caused/GHG climate catastrophe claims of the WMO and UN Sec-Gen Guterres made on March 23, 2026, says Friends of Science Society.

"Climate Realism Rising"

"Climate Realism Rising" Heartland Institute's 16th International Conference on Climate Change

Friends of Science Society's president, Ron Davison, P. Eng. will reunite in person with several co-authors of "Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition," at Heartland's ICCC16 in Washington, D.C., April 8-9, 2026, where "Climate Realism Rising" is the theme. The event will be live streamed from The Heartland Institute's video podcast channel.

Davison has long publicly rejected the proposed spending of trillions of dollars on Net Zero, to achieve, perhaps, only billions in benefits. Davison argued this in his March 2025, presentation "Net Zero: Climate Policy is All Pain for Minimal Gain."

One of the ICCC16 speakers will be Dr. Arthur Viterito, whose climate research was featured in this new Friends of Science Society video explainer, "Hot Blobs - Oceanic Geothermal Heat: Out of Sight, Out of Mind."

Friends of Science Society published a new report from Robert Lyman this week, titled, "Stop Finding Reasons to Say 'No'" to major infrastructure and energy projects. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the province of Alberta and Ottawa, has raised hopes of approval of a pipeline to the West Coast from the Alberta oil sands. The MOU includes an agreement to raise the industrial carbon tax to an agreed upon price (generally believed to be targeted for ~$130/t) in exchange for trade-offs and simplification of some approval processes. Lyman's report reveals that only nominal efficiencies in approval processes will be the result; layers of overlapping climate and GHG regulations will hamper major projects with endless barriers and last-minute pile-ons by climate and indigenous activists. Such groups were successful in blocking Keystone XL under the Biden administration.

Friends of Science Society has issued an Open Letter to the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Canada's banking regulator.

Friends of Science Society's letter asks OSFI to issue public statements regarding the retraction of Kotz et al (2024). This recently retracted economic paper had a wildly exaggerated climate damage function that the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) banks had adopted. Likewise, Friends of Science Society asks OSFI for comments on the rescission of the US EPA CO2 Endangerment Finding and the impact on Canada, whose Social Cost of Carbon (the basis of the carbon tax) was directly aligned with the EPA ruling and calculations, as discussed in this explainer video.

Friends of Science Society's letter points out that advocates of the Paris Agreement, like Catherine McKenna in her "Integrity Matters: Winning the Future" report, are claiming that the Paris Agreement has led to a reduction in emissions trajectory. In fact, the 'reduction' is simply due to the fact that the improbable scenario, known as RCP 8.5, often cited as the 'business-as-usual' case, has been recognized as improbable.

Friends of Science Society cautions OSFI that shareholder pressure groups appear to be pushing banks to reduce or abandon their financial services for energy companies that do not comply with setting unrealistic Net Zero targets. Meanwhile, the war in Iran is forcing the world to face climate and energy realism with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as reported by BBC on March 18, 2026, while Canada seems determined to miss out on global markets once again.

About

Friends of Science Society is an independent group of earth, atmospheric and solar scientists, engineers, and citizens that is celebrating its 23rd year of offering climate science insights. After a thorough review of a broad spectrum of literature on climate change, Friends of Science Society has concluded that the sun is the main driver of climate change, not carbon dioxide (CO2).

Friends of Science Society
PO Box 61172 RPO Kensington
Calgary AB T2N 4S6
Canada
Phone: 1-888-789-9597
www.FriendsOfScience.org
[email protected]
www.ClimateChange101.ca

SOURCE Friends of Science Society

It’s more than just the human influence or carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas emissions. Some climate drivers are natural and cyclical – like the repeating patterns of El Nino, Southern Oscillation. Some are spontaneous and unexpected – like volcanoes or large wildfires.

04/07/2026

“Climate Realism Rising”:
Heartland Institute's Conference Will Challenge the WMO's Claims of a Climate Catastrophe, Says Friends of Science Society

News provided by
Friends of Science Society March 25, 2026, 6:00 PM ET

CALGARY, AB, March 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A diverse group of climate science speakers at the Heartland Institute's 16th International Conference on Climate (ICCC16) will challenge the sole focus on human-caused/GHG climate catastrophe claims made by the WMO and UN Secretary-General Guterres on March 23, 2026, says Friends of Science Society.

Stop Finding Reasons to Say ‘No’ to Major Projects - new report by Robert Lyman. Image licensed from Adobe Stock.
“Climate Realism Rising” Heartland Institute's 16th International Conference on Climate Change.

Friends of Science Society's president, Ron Davison, P. Eng., will reunite in person with several co-authors of “Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition” at Heartland's ICCC16 in Washington, D.C., April 8–9, 2026, where “Climate Realism Rising” is the theme. The event will be live-streamed from The Heartland Institute's video podcast channel.

Davison has long publicly rejected the proposed spending of trillions of dollars on Net Zero, to achieve, perhaps, only billions in benefits. Davison argued this in his March 2025 presentation “Net Zero: Climate Policy is All Pain for Minimal Gain.”

One of the ICCC16 speakers will be Dr. Arthur Viterito, whose climate research was featured in this new Friends of Science Society video explainer, "Hot Blobs - Oceanic Geothermal Heat: Out of Sight, Out of Mind.“

Friends of Science Society published a new report by Robert Lyman this week, titled, ”Stop Finding Reasons to Say ‘No’" to major infrastructure and energy projects. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the province of Alberta and Ottawa has raised hopes for the approval of a pipeline to the West Coast from the Alberta oil sands. The MOU includes an agreement to raise the industrial carbon tax to an agreed-upon price (generally believed to be targeted at ~$130/t) in exchange for trade-offs and the simplification of certain approval processes. Lyman’s report reveals that only nominal efficiencies in approval processes will result; layers of overlapping climate and GHG regulations will hinder major projects with endless barriers and last-minute objections from climate and Indigenous activists. Such groups were successful in blocking Keystone XL under the Biden administration.
Friends of Science Society has issued an Open Letter to the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Canada's banking regulator.

Friends of Science Society's letter asks OSFI to issue public statements regarding the retraction of Kotz et al (2024). This recently retracted economic paper contained a wildly exaggerated climate damage function that the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) banks had adopted. Likewise, Friends of Science Society asks OSFI for comments on the rescission of the US EPA CO2 Endangerment Finding and the impact on Canada, whose Social Cost of Carbon (the basis of the carbon tax) was directly aligned with the EPA ruling and calculations, as discussed in this explainer video.

Friends of Science Society’s letter points out that advocates of the Paris Agreement, such as Catherine McKenna in her “Integrity Matters: Winning the Future” report, are claiming that the Paris Agreement has led to a downward trajectory in emissions. In fact, the ‘reduction’ is simply due to the fact that the improbable scenario, known as RCP 8.5—often cited as the ‘business-as-usual’ case—has been recognized as unlikely.

Friends of Science Society cautions OSFI that shareholder pressure groups appear to be pushing banks to reduce or abandon their financial services for energy companies that do not comply with setting unrealistic Net Zero targets. Meanwhile, the war in Iran is forcing the world to face climate and energy realism with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as reported by BBC on March 18, 2026, while Canada seems determined to miss out on global markets once again.

About

Friends of Science Society is an independent group of earth, atmospheric, and solar scientists, engineers, and citizens celebrating its 23rd year of providing climate science insights. After a thorough review of a broad spectrum of literature on climate change, Friends of Science Society has concluded that the sun is the main driver of climate change, not carbon dioxide (CO2).

Friends of Science Society
PO Box 61172 RPO Kensington
Calgary AB T2N 4S6
Canada
Phone: 1-888-789-9597
www.FriendsOfScience.org
[email protected]
www.ClimateChange101.ca

SOURCE Friends of Science Society
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/climate-realism-rising-heartland-institute-conference-iccc16-will-challenge-the-wmo-climate-catastrophe-claims-says-friends-of-science-society-302725396.html?tc=eml_cleartime

It’s more than just the human influence or carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas emissions. Some climate drivers are natural and cyclical – like the repeating patterns of El Nino, Southern Oscillation. Some are spontaneous and unexpected – like volcanoes or large wildfires.

02/22/2026

🇨🇦 Fear of early - Poilièvre's CPC is COOKED!
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01/03/2026

🎬 The Great Awakening

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12/12/2025

✝️ CHRISTMAS - SAINTS WHO LIVED AGAINST THE GRAIN 🙏

📚 "Against the Grain," praised by Archbishop Viganò and Bishop Athanasius Schneider, presents 21 saints and their shining examples of different virtues TO INSPIRE CATHOLICS TO HOLINESS.

"Wake up! You don't belong here. Stop pretending that you belong here. You are different. You are Catholic. Say NO to the crowd. Saying YES to Christ means saying YES to true freedom and eternal salvation... Model your life on Christ's and BE A SIGN OF CONTRADICTION IN YOUR FAMILY, YOUR COMMUNITY, YOUR CHURCH, AND YOUR NATION. Be a nonconformist. Be a saint. Be a maker of saints. Go against the grain. "

This is the message of the remarkable book Against the Grain, in the words of its author, Doug Grane. The book presents 21 saints and their shining examples of 21 VIRTUES, including COURAGE, HUMILITY, CHARITY, MODESTY, and many others, as well as, as Archbishop Carlo Mario Viganò says in his preface, their "friendship with God."

As the book particularly highlights THE SPECIFIC SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME, both in the world and in the Catholic Church, it encourages the reader to reflect on how he or she can respond to God's unique call.

"Against The Grain is a call to heroic virtue, to holiness, for everyone," Grane said. "The format is designed to gently lead the reader to reflect on the virtues and their own potential for holiness," he explains, adding that the book seeks to help transform "lukewarm and comfortable" Catholics into fervent and holy Catholics.

"This story is not just about our Catholic ancestors. It's about every Catholic's personal quest to find THE COURAGE TO BE TRULY FAITHFUL in a world where Catholicism is often unwelcome," Mr. Grane said.

When asked what inspired him to tell the stories of the saints, Mr. Grane replied, "Life is short. Eternity is not. The only reason we exist in this life is to be a saint and earn heaven for eternity in the afterlife." "

The book aims to prompt the reader to ask, "Why not me?" In other words, "Why can't I respond to this situation or this call from God with heroic holiness?"

MODERN MAN NEEDS TO BE ENCOURAGED TO TURN AWAY FROM DISTRACTIONS AND TOWARD THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, and that is one of the many things "Against the Grain" offers.

Grane emphasized that it is of the utmost importance to become a fervent Catholic. "Pope St. Pius V said, 'ALL THE EVIL IN THE WORLD IS DUE TO LUKEWARM CATHOLICS,'" he pointed out.

"My greatest fear, and what haunts me the most, is that souls will be lost for eternity," Grane confided. "As St. Bernadette Soubirous replied when asked in 1870, 'What are you afraid of?': 'I fear only bad Catholics.' TODAY, SO MANY PSEUDO-CATHOLICS ARE TURNING OTHERS AWAY FROM HEAVEN. So many complacent, lukewarm, and uncharitable Catholics will not go to heaven."

"No more lukewarmness and insipidity. IT IS TIME TO ACT AND LIVE TRULY. This is not the time for defeatist Catholicism or part-time saints," Grane urged.

"Make a little effort, repeat it, and soon you will lead a more virtuous, perhaps even heroic, life," Grane said. "SEEK OUT OTHER HEROIC PEOPLE. "

"There are so many Catholics who want our bishops to take the lead, who want American culture to stop declining, who want their children to have as much opportunity to lead a good life as they themselves had growing up.

🫵 STOP CURSING THE INACTION OF OTHERS AND WAITING FOR OTHERS TO TAKE THE LEAD. MAYBE YOU ARE THE CAVALRY!" 🤔

Grane points out that "Against the Grain" is suitable for both teenagers and adults. "Despite peer pressure to 'fit in,' TEENAGERS ARE NATURALLY COUNTERCULTURAL," he said. He believes they will find the book "captivating in its approach."

"Adults, retirees, new converts, and those considering conversion also find this book entertaining, interesting, and motivating," Grane said.

This is attested to by prominent faithful Catholics such as Father James Altman and Bishop Thomas Paprocki, lay evangelist Jesse Romero, producer and human rights advocate Jason Jones, and others who have recommended the book.

"Since G.K. Chesterton in St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas, no Catholic has shed such inspiring light on the lives of the great saintly heroes of Catholic Church history," enthused author and radio host Mike Church.

It has also been called "excellent" by Archbishop Carlo Mario Viganò and Bishop Athanasius Schneider.

In his latest reflections on this "call to arms," Grane said, "IF YOU WANT TO DANCE WITH THE DEVIL, FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT. Compromise your values for vice and try to 'fit in' with the culture of the world. Or, if you want to FOLLOW JESUS... CARRY YOUR CROSS ✝️, BE A SIGN OF CONTRADICTION, AND GO... AGAINST THE GRAIN! 🙏

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