Ian Madsen: FLOP28 - Climate proposals would devastate economy

Politicians, academics, celebrities, self-appointed activists, protesters, and green energy industry lobbyists recently gathered in Dubai at their annual Climate Crisis jamboree (COP28).  Their central belief, from their computer models, is that human-generated global warming will lead to a rise in average global temperatures of two degrees Celsius, ‘2 C’ or even more frighteningly, as much as 3 C to 4 C by 2100.  They claim that this will cause widespread health, environmental, and economic devastation.

Ian Madsen: Heat pumps more costly, less efficient than gas furnaces

A recent study (by Andrew Montfort of the Global Warming Policy Foundation) addressing the Net Zero policies of the United Kingdom government has calculated that heat pumps, which Climate ‘activists’ advocate to replace home heating (in that nation, and in Canada), do none of the things that their proponents claim.   Heat pumps are neither more efficient than gas boilers, nor cheaper, and do a very expensive job of reducing carbon dioxide, ‘CO2’, emissions.  Heat pumps eliminate those emissions at a cost of over £300 – ~CAD$400 – per tonne of CO2, which far exceeds the estimated cost of those emissions to global Gross Domestic Product.  In summary, heat pumps are the antithesis of a true solution to a questionable ‘problem’.

Ian Madsen: Marx Was Definitely Not Right, Nor Great

Recently, the world was sadly compelled to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx.  He was indeed, a major figure in shaping history, but definitely not for the good.

Marx, along with his patron, Friedrich Engels, created the political-economic philosophy (perhaps a religion) commonly called Communism. Its essential tenet is that what we commonly call ‘capitalism’, which is based on the free exchange of goods, services, labour, ideas, money, and other things, is inherently evil and doomed to a brutal, violent, and ignominious extinction.