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Lawrence Solomon (born 1948 in Bucharest, Romania) is a Canadian author and columnist who has written on energy and environmental issues. He is the founder and managing director of the Energy Probe Research Foundation. He has worked for a series of newspapers including the National Post, where he writes a column. He has authored books on energy resources, urban sprawl and global warming.

Solomon opposes nuclear power based on its economic costs is a global warming skeptic, and has been critical of government approaches and policies used to address environmental concerns.

Career

Solomon worked as a columnist at The Globe and Mail, and has been published in the National Review Online, CBS News, and the Wall Street Journal. He was the editor and publisher of Next City magazine, now defunct.

Solomon supports reforms in foreign aid, putting a stop to nuclear power expansion, and supports the privatization of transport projects and the expansion of toll roads. His columns and book Toronto Sprawls: A History blame government policy for exacerbating and encouraging sprawl. He is a critic of subsidies to rural Canada.

Global warming

In a series of articles and a companion book published in 2008, The Deniers, Solomon writes about scientists whose views and research (according to Solomon) contradicts what he calls the alarmist view of global warming presented by Al Gore, the IPCC and the mainstream media. The book featured on C-SPAN's Book TV on May 11, 2008. Reviews of the book have appeared in the Washington Times, Vancouver Sun and other newspapers. An executive from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy planned to hold a discussion about global warming featuring Lawrence Solomon, and the book was part of a teleconference that included a scientist from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change taking the opposite view. Michael E. Mann has called him an industry shill.

Solomon has also written columns criticizing Misplaced Pages's coverage of global warming and other topics.

Business interests

Solomon started an online merchant of green and roasted coffee in 2004 called the Green Beanery. The company acquired a former bank building in downtown Toronto and converted it to an emporium that has become Canada's largest coffee equipment store and includes a cafe where customers can sample some 90 varieties of coffee. The profits from Green Beanery go to Probe International, a division of the Energy Probe Research Foundation.

Published works

Solomon's books include:

• The Conserver Solution (Doubleday, 1978 ISBN 978-0385145336)
• Energy shock: After the oil runs out (Doubleday, 1980 ISBN 978-0385171618)
• Breaking up Ontario Hydro's Monopoly (Energy Probe, 1982)
• Power at What Cost (Doubleday, 1984 ISBN 978-0919849037)
• Graduate Record Examination: Biology; Subject Test (ARCO, 1984 ISBN 978-0668058636)
• In the Name of Progress (with Patricia Adams) (Earthscan, 1992 ISBN 978-1853831218)
• Toronto Sprawls: A History (University of Toronto Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0772786180)
• The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud (Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 ISBN 978-0980076318)

References

1. ^ "Lawrence Solomon Biography". Financial Post. Retrieved 2008-07-25. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
2. Lawrence Solomon The two blows that killed the industry; Once-promising sector never lived up to its promise August 1, 2009 National Post
3. Hume, Brit (June 04, 2007). "Is the Earmark System Really Being Reformed by Democrats?". FoxNews. Retrieved 2009-08-24. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
4. Lawrence Solomon articles in Financial Post National Post
5. "The Next City magazine, published and edited by Solomon, was started in 1995." Thomas WalkomHydro thorn Energy Probe rooted on the right; Pro-privatization empire not part of environmentalism's whole-grain world August 23, 1997 page E.1 Toronto Star
6. "I note that Lawrence Solomon continues to advocate road tolls, and the privatization of the TTC (like London) for Toronto's transportation system." Bruce Campion-Smith Toll roads safer, better maintained, expert says November 21, 1996 Toronto Star page A.20
7. Lawrence Solomon Stimulating sprawl April 04, 2009 Financial Post
8. You keep Yonge St.: Two writers from Alberta take on Lawrence Solomon's view that rural Canada is an unviable drag on cities. What about all those urban subsidies? May 15, 2004 America's Intelligence Wire (From Financial Post)
9. "The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud". Book TV on C-Span2. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
10. Shawn Macomber (2008-05-06). "The climate change deniers". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
11. Mark Milke (2008-05-09). "'The Deniers' details flaws in the theories on global warming". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
12. Terpstra, Ben-Peter (January 11, 2009). "Book Review: The Deniers". Canada Free Press. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
13. "Today, an institute executive will hold a chamber-sponsored discussion about global warming featuring Lawrence Solomon, the author of a book questioning whether there is a scientific consensus on climate change. The book, "The Deniers," will be the subject of a teleconference, which will include a scientist from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change taking the opposite view. The discussion will be moderated by Stephen Eule, who works with Jones at the institute." Tom Hamburger James L. Jones' energy views worry some environmentalists; James L. Jones is Obama's new national security advisor. But he leads an institute that has challenged global warming. December 02, 2008 Los Angeles Times
14. Michael E. Mann Tabloid fossil-fuel shill; As proven by the fiery exchange below, the debate over climate change couldn't be further from settled Saturday, Feb 7, 2009 National Post
15. Solomon, Lawrence (2008-04-12). "Misplaced Pages's Zealots: Solomon". Financial Post. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
16. Solomon, Lawrence (2008-07-08). "Wikipropaganda". National Review Online. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
17. "Roast-your-own coffee business goes green" (Press release). Green Beanery. 2004-09-15. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
18. "Green Beanery home page". Green Beanery. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
19. "Green Beanery landing web page". Green Beanery. Retrieved 2008-07-10.

External links

• Climate change: The Deniers provides an index to the series of articles by Solomon in the National Post about scientists who are skeptics of the notion of anthropogenic global warming.
• Don’t Deny Yourself, an interview with Lawrence Solomon, in the National Review, April 22, 2008.
• A Time to Deny, an interview with Lawrence Solomon at The American Spectator, April 18, 2008.
• The climate change deniers, an article on Solomon's book The Deniers, Washington Times, May 6, 2008.
• 'The Deniers' details flaws in the theories on global warming, Vancouver Sun, May 9, 2008.
• Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change contains links to various articles by Solomon.
• Lawrence Solomon (1990-01-01). "Save the Forests - Sell the Trees". American Forests. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
• Mark Milke, Alberta to Bury Carbon, and its History, a Frontier Centre for Public Policy article dated 2008-07-16 referring to Lawrence Solomon's book The Deniers.

• 1948 births
• Living people
• Critics of Misplaced Pages
• Canadian non-fiction writers
• Canadian columnists
• Canadian environmentalists