Today I’m really excited to announce the launch of a new project, the Climate Discussion Nexus, to promote a polite, intelligent discussion of climate policy and the science behind it. We’re producing a weekly newsletter, videos, a blog and other media, and offering a forum for debate, analysis and data.

I’m the Executive Director and you can find more information at the CDN website, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, subscribe on YouTube, get our weekly newsletter (on climatediscussionnexus.com, lower right corner), share the initiative with your friends, colleagues and family, and consider donating to support this venture going forward.

At the Climate Discussion Nexus there are no sacred cows and no taboos except rudeness and ignorance.

Nobody’s happy with the current state of our national conversation on climate change. It’s time to open up the discussion for real.

So please join us and help spread the word.

“Progress mainly depends on the extent to which the strongest and not merely the highest forces of human nature can be utilised for the increase of social good.”

Professor Alfred Marshal, quoted in Nigel Birch, The Conservative Party

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say despite media jeering at Trump for supposedly caving in, the real losers were… just about everybody.

“They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer – not an easy answer – but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.”

Ronald Reagan “A Time for Choosing” (a.k.a. “The Speech”) October 27, 1964

In my latest National Post column I say it’s absurd and ghastly for the major parties each to rail at the other for wanting to tax without spending, as if there were no connection between high program spending and high taxes.

“Free markets must be defended on moral grounds. We must convince our fellow man there cannot be personal liberty in the absence of free markets, respect for private property rights and rule of law. Even if free markets were not superior wealth producers, the morality of the market would make them the superior alternative.”

Walter E. Williams, “Foreword” to Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom [Readers’ Digest condensed edition] with The Intellectuals and Socialism