Name: Allan MacRae
Residence: Calgary
Country: Canada

What is your background?
I have two engineering degrees related to the Earth Sciences and have done major business on six of the world’s seven continents, including significant business in the Former Soviet Union. Some of my achievements are outlined below:
Dr. David Devenny, P.Eng., P.Geol., Past President of APEGA, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, nominates Allan MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng. for {awards}.

  1. Initiatives that drove major economic growth of Syncrude Canada, the Alberta oil sands and the Canadian economy. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, I initiated (or co-initiated) and successfully proposed three of the four major changes that drove the successful growth of the Alberta oil sands. Changes included new income tax terms, new Crown royalty terms and a low-cost 50% production increase that reduced Syncrude unit operating costs by 30%. I also recommended that Syncrude acquire new leases for growth, and technical innovations that improved performance and reduced costs. I incorporated these initiatives into a comprehensive strategy for Syncrude, which was implemented and was instrumental in the successful evolution and growth of Syncrude and the Alberta oil sands industry. The oil sands industry became the mainstay of the Canadian economy for 15 years, with over $250 billion in new capital investments and approximately 500,000 new jobs created. Canada became the fifth-largest oil producer in the world and the most successful economy of the G8 countries.
  2. Actions that prevented a potentially catastrophic sour gas disaster at the Mazeppa project near Calgary. In May 2016, as an uninvolved citizen, I became aware of unsafe operating procedures at the Mazeppa critical sour gas project near Calgary. At some personal risk, I investigated, consulted with trusted colleagues, and following the Code of Conduct of Alberta’s Professional Engineers (APEGA), I reported my concerns to the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), and followed up to ensure proper compliance. The AER quickly shut down the Mazeppa project and canceled all 1600 operating licenses of the parent company, which was placed in receivership and bankruptcy. The Managing Director was fined and sanctioned. This was the most severe reprimand of a company in the history of the Alberta energy industry. A 2005 analysis of Mazeppa wells by the Alberta ERCB concluded that an uncontrolled sour gas release would affect an area within a 15km radius and could kill or injure up to 250,000 people. By 2016 that population increased to ~300,000 people.
  3. Service to Calgary’s Homeless. From 2002 to 2017, I was volunteer member of the Board of Directors of the Calgary Drop-in and Rehab Centre (“the DI”). The DI provides food, shelter and services to homeless single women and men. According to Dermot Baldwin, the former Executive Director of the Calgary Drop-In and Rehab Centre: “Early in Allan’s tenure on the Board, there was a critical shortage of funded shelter beds at the DI. Allan was instrumental in obtaining provincial funding to increase the capacity of the DI from 600 to 800 beds during that crisis, immediately before the onset of winter. Later Allan steered the challenging sale of a building from the DI to Inn-from-the-Cold. That allowed homeless Calgary families to live in their own rooms, instead of staying in church basements and moving frequently from church to church. During his tenure on the Board, the DI grew from 600 funded shelter beds to over 1200, and provided 1.2 million free meals per year.”
  4. Provision of medical services to a remote native Amerind community in the High Andes, Jujuy Province, Argentina. Circa 1992, I co-initiated the re-discovery of a borate deposit in the high Andes of northwestern Argentina at 4200m elevation. The opening of the new mine caused medical care to be introduced to a remote native Amerind village.
  5. Successful proposal for a new Tax Class 53 to assist Canadian manufacturing industries In 2014, I proposed improved income tax terms for Canadian manufacturing industries, through a Member of Parliament Joan Crockatt. As a result, a new Class 53 CCA rate was introduced for a ten-year period in the 2015 Budget.

Since when and why are you interested in climate change?
I first heard of the alleged catastrophic human-made global warming crisis circa 1985 when I was working in the Canadian oilsands. I knew from my understanding of paleoclimatology that there was nothing unusual happening with the climate and I started  studying climate science as a fascinating subject. I became concerned for the wellbeing of humanity when I saw the many alarmist climate-and-energy falsehoods being promoted by special interest groups, falsehoods that were clearly contradicted by ample evidence and which were nevertheless being promoted through Lenin/Goebbels propaganda tactics.

How did your views on climate change evolve?
I studied climate and energy for 17 years and then started to publish newspaper articles questioning the false alarmist view of CO2-driven dangerous global warming, aka climate change. I was requested by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) to lead a written debate at the Pembina Institute on the Kyoto Protocol, and that was published in 2002.

Excerpts:
In 2002 co-authors Dr Sallie Baliunas, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian, Dr Tim Patterson, Paleoclimatologist, Carleton, Ottawa and Allan MacRae published the following, which are correct to date:
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/KyotoAPEGA2002REV1.pdf

  1. “CLIMATE SCIENCE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE THEORY OF CATASTROPHIC HUMAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING – THE ALLEGED WARMING CRISIS DOES NOT EXIST.”
    See Michael Shellenberger’s 2020 confession “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare”. https://quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/
    THE CATASTROPHIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING (CAGW) AND THE HUMANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES ARE PROVED FALSE
    By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng., January 10, 2020
    https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming-cagw-and-the-humanmade-climate-change-crises-are-proved-false.pdf
  2. “THE ULTIMATE AGENDA OF PRO-KYOTO ADVOCATES IS TO ELIMINATE FOSSIL FUELS, BUT THIS WOULD RESULT IN A CATASTROPHIC SHORTFALL IN GLOBAL ENERGY SUPPLY – THE WASTEFUL, INEFFICIENT ENERGY SOLUTIONS PROPOSED BY KYOTO ADVOCATES SIMPLY CANNOT REPLACE FOSSIL FUELS.”
    See Michael Moore’s 2020 film “Planet of the Humans”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
    Allan MacRae published on September 1, 2002, based on a conversation with Dr. Tim Patterson:
  3. “IF [AS WE BELIEVE] SOLAR ACTIVITY IS THE MAIN DRIVER OF SURFACE TEMPERATURE RATHER THAN CO2, WE SHOULD BEGIN THE NEXT COOLING PERIOD BY 2020 TO 2030.”
    Allan MacRae modified his global cooling prediction in 2013:
  4. “I SUGGEST GLOBAL COOLING STARTS BY 2020 OR SOONER. BUNDLE UP.”
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/02/study-predicts-the-sun-is-headed-for-a-dalton-like-solar-minimum-around-2050/#comment-1147149My views have been consistent since 1985 – there is no real CO2-drive climate crisis and green energy (wind and solar power) is not green, and produces little useful (dispatchable) energy. These two statements are correct-to-date. There is increasing evidence of the early stages of a moderate global cooling period – time will tell.
    One major change in my views occurred in early 2008, when I discovered and published  that atmospheric CO2 changes lag temperature changes by ~9 months in the modern data record, which is an absolute disproof of the CAGW hypothesis. I published that paper here:
    CARBON DIOXIDE IS NOT THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING, THE FUTURE CAN NOT CAUSE THE PAST
    By Allan M.R. MacRae, January 2008
    http://icecap.us/images/uploads/CO2vsTMacRae.pdf

    Subsequent related papers are:
    TEMPERATURE DRIVES ATMOSPHERIC CO2 ON ALL TIME SCALES
    By Allan MacRae, June 12, 2015
    http://icecap.us/index.php/go/icing-the-hype/temperature_drives_atmospheric_co2_on_all_time_scales/

    and an explanation of why the lag of CO2 after temperature change is ~9 months here:
    CO2, GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE AND ENERGY
    by Allan M.R. MacRae, A.Sc., M.Eng., June 15, 2019
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/15/co2-global-warming-climate-and-energy-2/
    Excel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Rev_CO2-Global-Warming-Climate-and-Energy-June2019-FINAL.xlsx

I summarized some  of the many disproofs of the failed global warming / green energy hypothesis here:
THE CATASTROPHIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING AND THE HUMANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES ARE PROVED FALSE
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming-cagw-and-the-humanmade-climate-change-crises-are-proved-false.pdf

Is climate change a big issue in your country and how do you notice this?
Climate change is a huge issue in Canada, and threatens to break up the country. It is increasingly obvious that climate change false alarmism is being used as a tool by extremists in power to seize totalitarian control of the populace and move the country to a Marxist command economy. This totalitarian objective is openly admitted by leading climate alarmists.

See for example
WHAT THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS REALLY ABOUT — AND IT’S NOT THE CLIMATE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., July 19, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/20/what-the-green-new-deal-is-really-about-and-its-not-the-climate/

THE RADICAL GREEN ROAD TO VENEZUELA – POVERTY, MISERY AND DICTATORSHIP
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., September 20, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/20/the-radical-green-road-to-venezuela-poverty-misery-and-dictatorship/

How would climate policy ideally look like in your view?
There is no scientific basis that supports CO2-drive climate change hysteria. This entire false crisis and the resulting green energy fiasco has wasted trillions of dollars globally and caused false alarm to everyone from bureaucrats to schoolchildren. The alleged climate crisis has NO scientific basis and is one of the most costly frauds in history.

What is your motivation to sign the CLINTEL World Climate Declaration?
As stated above, The alleged climate crisis has NO scientific basis and is one of the most costly frauds in history. The false climate crisis has squandered tens of trillions of dollars of scarce global resources, has destroyed sensible energy policy and has caused untold suffering to hundreds of millions of people who have been denied cheap, reliable abundant energy.

What question did we forget?
What are the apparent motives for those who have so ardently promoted the climate scare since the early 1980’s?
Prominent greens occasionally admit that climate-and-energy was false propaganda, a smokescreen for their extreme-left political objectives.
The green objective is to destroy prosperity and move the developed world into a planned economy – with a few rich at the top looking down on the many poor peasants. That model describes most of the countries in the world. Europe and Canada are far down that path, and the USA will follow depending upon the November 2020 election.