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Tom Harris

Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition at [url=http://www.icsc-climate.com]http://www.icsc-climate.com[/url].

Most Recent Articles by Tom Harris:

Ottawa’s Climate Plans “Irresponsible”

Testimony of ICSC-Canada’s Tom Harris before the City of Ottawa Environment and Climate Change Committee – 18/04/23 (video of testimony may be see here). Note the logically fallacious attack from Councillor Sean Devine after Mr. Harris’ testimony and Mr. Harris’ response.

Thank you Chair. I’m Tom Harris, Executive Director of International Climate Science Coalition – Canada. I am a resident of Councillor Devine’s ward.

I would like to congratulate those of you who were on Council when the Climate Change Master Plan was passed for your inclusion of adaptation to climate change.

- Thursday, April 27, 2023

Earth Day Betrays its Philosophical Founders

The real founders of Earth Day were not the politicians who rode the wave of environmental consciousness that swept the public in the late 60s and early 70s to establish the logistics of the organization. Nor was it the United Nations or peace and environmental activists who jumped on board the train when it became apparent that people across the world were demanding action to solve the environmental problems of the day.

- Friday, April 21, 2023

How Pro-lifers Can Fight the Climate Scare Threatening their Movement

In “Using the Climate Change Scare to Promote Abortion,“ my March 21st America Out Loud article, I described how climate alarmists are promoting abortion to lessen our population to supposedly help stop climate change. I also showed that the abortion industry is now citing climate change concerns to promote their agenda as well.

But both of these arguments utterly fail if pro-life activists demonstrate clearly that there is no climate emergency—not now, nor at any time in the foreseeable future. And that is exactly the case.

- Monday, April 10, 2023

Using the Climate Change Scare to Promote Abortion

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to speak to Campaign Life Coalition Ottawa about climate change and the potential threat that climate alarmism poses to the objectives of pro-lifers. The title of the event is “Why global warming alarmism is a threat to unborn children… and the pro-life movement.”

In preparation for the event, I researched whether climate activist groups had anything to say about abortion and were surprised to see they do indeed. While their position is usually cloaked in supposed respect for woman’s rights, many of these groups strongly support abortion, and it is clear that their drive for de-population is a major reason for it. For example, in his Feb 6, 2017 interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Michael Brune, then Sierra Club Executive Director, was asked:

- Friday, March 24, 2023

“Bankrupt, Hungry and Freezing in the Dark”

Testimony of ICSC-Canada’s Tom Harris before the City of Ottawa Environment and Climate Change Committee – 21/02/23 (video of testimony may be seen here):

My name is Tom Harris. I am Executive Director of The International Climate Science Coalition – Canada. I have bachelor and masters degrees in mechanical engineering with a specialization in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics. I worked as an engineer for the National Research Council, other government departments, and in the high-tech sector. As a lecturer at Carleton University, I taught climate change [science] to about 1500 students.

- Wednesday, March 8, 2023

The City of Ottawa municipal election has been poisoned with corruption, censorship and intimidation

The City of Ottawa municipal election has been poisoned with corruption, censorship and intimidationCorruption: the first four mayoral candidates debates were organized by climate activists. Not surprisingly, they made the debates about "climate justice" and eliminated from the 4th and most important climate debate, Mike Maguire, the candidate who most seriously opposed the City’s energy plans. Also eliminated, even though he accepted, in writing, a written commitment from the organizers that he would participate in the 4th debate, was candidate Ade Olumide, who has registered a formal complaint. But then Olumide had criticized candidate and current councillor Catherine McKenney, a favourite of climate activists, on several issues. He especially condemned McKenney’s wild plan to boost Ottawa’s cycling budget (for bike paths) by 1,250% to $250 million while, as Olumide put it in his October 5 press release, “people [are] dying due to the waitlist to enter a drug treatment program and the lack of supportive housing.”
- Monday, October 24, 2022

Earth Day Still Focussed on Immoral Climate Crusade

Earth Day Still Focussed on Immoral Climate CrusadeToday is Earth Day, an event that has been almost entirely hijacked by the ridiculous and dangerous climate change movement.  “Climate” appears a total of 10 times on the earthday.org home page and 15 time on the subpage for this year’s event. The first action item on the Greenpeace USA home page is a link to a new report, “How Social Media Companies are failing to Tackle Climate Information.” The United Nations International Mother Earth Day home page starts with the childish statements “Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering.” as if our planet were a conscious entity, and cites “climate” no less than seven times. Pollution is referenced once. Land once. Water and air not at all. 
- Friday, April 22, 2022

Ottawa's Suicidal Climate Plans a Cautionary Tale for Governments Everywhere

Ottawa's Suicidal Climate Plans a Cautionary Tale for Governments EverywherePoliticians leading the City of Ottawa have fallen hook, line and sinker for climate alarmism and, as a consequence, Canada's national capital is on the verge of a deadly self-induced crisis. This is being brought on by their obsession with "stopping climate change," prioritizing it over real world environmental, health, economic and energy supply concerns. The forecast cost of achieving the City's net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 target is astonishing: $57.4 billion to be spent over the three decades between 2020 and 2050, with a present value of $31.8 billion. And this is just the estimated direct cost. The actual cost, including spinoffs, to the Ottawa economy and residents will be significantly higher. And one cannot ever begin to place a dollar value on eliminating people's choices about how they wish to live.
- Thursday, April 14, 2022

UN Claims to "Climate Truth" Impossible

UN Claims to Climate Truth ImpossibleMissing from most, if not all, coverage of last month's climate science report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was the fact that their most important conclusions are impossible; not merely contested or exaggerated, but literally impossible.  Consider the following from the IPCC full Working Group I report, Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis, issued on August 9:
"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level."
- Saturday, September 4, 2021

Biden overlooks real climate change moral crisis in debate

Biden overlooks real climate change moral crisis in debate, adaption,In Thursday’s presidential debate, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said, “global warming is an existential threat to humanity. We have a moral obligation to do with it and we’re told by all the leading scientists of the world we don't have much time. We’re going to pass the point of no return with the next eight to ten years.”
- Friday, October 23, 2020

Biden can’t have it both ways on Paris climate accord

In his climate change plan Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden says that the United States will “re-enter the Paris Agreement on day one of the Biden Administration.” The former vice-president reassures readers in his “Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice” that he will “not allow other nations, including China, to game the system by becoming destination economies for polluters...”
- Friday, October 16, 2020

On Saturday, Switch off Earth Hour

Rather than switch off lights to show their support for Earth Hour on Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30 pm local time, the public should switch off Earth Hour. While the event has expanded from its original focus on the impossible goal of ‘stopping climate change,’ global warming is still a primary rationale.
- Friday, March 27, 2020

Environmentalists responsible for much of Australia's bush fire problem

Environmentalists responsible for much of Australia's bush fire problemRecent climate change has not caused Australian bushfires. Besides the fact that many of the fires are set by people, either intentionally or by accident, a major cause of Australia's fire problem has been the high 'fuel loads,' underbrush that, left to accumulate over years, acts as a tinder box for bushfires. Craig Kelly, Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives (Hughes, New South Wales), told ITV's Good Morning Britain on January 6:
- Friday, January 31, 2020

Cold a harbinger of severe winter to come

The past week has certainly been rough on people across eastern North America. The Washington Post reported on Nov. 13 that “The most severe early November cold snap in more than a century has plowed over the East Coast, where record low temperatures were set in the majority of population centers Wednesday morning.”

- Saturday, November 16, 2019

Time to Give Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding a 'Tremendous Whack'

Time to Give Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding a 'Tremendous Whack'On Tuesday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Washington) that it be granted intervenor status concerning the litigation launched by environmental groups against the Trump administration's new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. The case in question, American Lung Association v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 19-1140, concerns attempts by environmental groups to strike down the ACE rule and resurrect the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan (CPP). The Chamber wants to be able to intervene in the case in defence of ACE.
- Friday, August 9, 2019

Energy Secretary Right on Climate Change

Energy Secretary Rick Perry did a remarkable thing last week: he expressed skepticism about the causes of climate change in a TV interview and, even after widespread condemnation from environmentalists and the press, he did it again a few days later before a major Senate committee.
- Thursday, June 29, 2017

Killing Paris Agreement is not enough

If President Donald Trump merely pulls the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, it will be like cutting the head off a dandelion. It will look good for a while until equally bad agreements quickly grow back when a Democrat occupies the White House again. Trump needs to dig up the roots of Paris—the 1992 U.N. climate treaty—if he is to keep his campaign promise to “stop all payments of the United States tax dollars to UN global warming programs.”
- Friday, May 12, 2017

Trudeau, Trump deliver Earth Day present

During a week of contentious trade issues between Canada and the United States, it was gratifying to see that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump actually did agree on one point--climate change was not even worth mentioning in their official Earth Day statements.
- Friday, April 28, 2017

Killing Clean Power Plan crucial step in ending climate deception

President Donald Trump is right to kill the hugely expensive Clean Power Plan (CPP). After all, it only controls carbon dioxide (CO2), which is simply plant food. The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change cites over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies showing that rising atmospheric CO2 enhances productivity of forests and grasslands. Commercial greenhouses run at up to about four times the outside level of CO2 to boost plant growth.
- Friday, April 14, 2017