Is this an accident? A miracle? A right-wing conspiracy? Editors high on pot? The Vancouver Province newspaper (a Canwest paper) has a small editorial that at least broaches the oh-so-bizarre concept, which has been blaring out of the mouths and off the pens of conservatives for years, that global warming and the Kyoto agreement may not be all they’re cracked-up to be.
I’ll bolden some highlights:
Since Canada committed itself to the international Kyoto emissions-reduction plan in 2000, Ottawa has either spent or set aside $3.7 billion on the global accord, with precious little to show for it—other than a few TV commercials showing comedian Rick Mercer asking Canadians to take “the one-tonne challenge.”
[…] In committing to Kyoto in 2002, Canadian politicians said that, by 2010, we would cut total emissions by six per cent from 1990 levels.
But with the official global start-up date for Kyoto just weeks away, it’s become painfully obvious that, under the current plan, there’s no way Canada will come even close to meeting its 2002 emission-reduction goals. Not only were they unrealistic when announced, they have become increasingly unattainable, given the country’s robust economic growth in recent years.
In fact, reaching those goals would require such drastic cuts to industrial production that Canada’s economy would likely be thrown into a recession.
[…] But all the Kyoto approach has done is create a massive global-emissions bureaucracy, of which the U.S. and the rapidly emerging Asian economies of China and India are not part.
The scientific evidence that fossil-fuel use is the primary culprit responsible for global warming is also far from concrete. Some suggest we’re in a natural warming period that began about 1850 as we emerged from a 400-year-old cold spell. […]
Scientists and politicians and writers have been saying these exact things for years. In fact the more you research, the more you find bunk and junk and political science rather than true and meaningful science.
Then after reading that, I stumbled on this:
OTTAWA (CP) – After being battered mercilessly for lacking a Kyoto implementation plan, the Prime Minister’s Office has drawn up a proposal that would fully meet Canada’s target under the treaty, says a well-informed source.
The plan, which is still under debate, calls for an additional $3 billion by 2010 for tax breaks, subsidies, and emissions purchases, said the source who spoke on condition of not being identified. Combined with $3.7 billion already allocated, the proposal would bring Ottawa’s Kyoto investment to $6.7 billion. […]
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