Fabiano Micoli

Apr 23, 2024 | mercatornet.com | Fabiano Micoli |Michael Cook |James Parker

Are we in the midst of a climate crisis? Broadly speaking, there are three answers to this question. Yes and we must decarbonize immediately. King Charles III delivered the keynote speech at the COP28 international climate conference organized by the United Nations last December. A confident and persuasive public speaker, Charles called for a “zero-carbon future” and said that a global climate catastrophe is imminent. How imminent is “imminent”?

Mar 19, 2024 | mercatornet.com | Fabiano Micoli |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson

Toronto City Council recently passed its 2024 budget after a lot of drama. The 2024 operating budget and the 2024-2033 capital budget reached C$17 billion and $49.8 billion respectively.This included a 9.5% property tax increase, the biggest increase in 25 years. For months, Toronto City Council struggled to fill in a projected $1.8 billion shortfall. The Toronto Region Board of Trade predicts a “fiscal chasm” of $36 billion over the next ten years, so we can expect more of the same.

Oct 31, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Fabiano Micoli |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin

With the wildland fire season winding down in Canada, this might a good time to look back at what happened and at how some people tried to explain why a staggering 17.9 million hectares burned. That’s more than six times the 10-year average. It’s not all loss, however. We need to keep in mind that fire is part of the natural renewal process of forests. Some pine cones, for example, will not release their seeds until they are subjected to very high temperatures that forest fires produce.

Aug 3, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Fabiano Micoli |James Bradshaw |Gabriel A. Andrade

Dr Clauser is a highly accomplished scientist in the field of quantum mechanics. He has also done some leading-edge analysis on the role of clouds in climate. So, when somebody like him comes out swinging at the UN/IPCC/climate establishment/mainstream media climate narrative, a lot of people are going to feel threatened. If you can’t take on somebody like him in a debate about science, your only alternative is to ignore him, hoping that most people don’t notice.

Jun 23, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Samuel Gregg |Helen Watt |Thomas Lickona |Fabiano Micoli

A common feature of many cultural revolutions is the effort to distort or even erase historical truth in the service of ideological goals. Past events, customs, economic systems, and political structures are presented as irredeemably evil. It follows that only radical redress in the present (self-denouncing struggle sessions, reparations, and purges of books, artifacts, and people) offers any possibility of atonement (though rarely redemption).