From The Horse's Mouth: Doing Nothing About Climate Change
Let us Canadians be proud of the Harper government and, especially, of our current Environment Minister, Jim Prentice (emphasis added):
Climate change laws years away: PrenticeIn other words: A) move the goal post by making any climate change laws in Canada contingent to a previous successful negociation of an international treaty and to a previous successful treaty with the US - both of which are still more or less under talks and which would require voting and ratification; and B) in the meantime, push the international process in the direction of "let's talk some more later on".
The federal environment minister says it may be a few years before Canada tables regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Jim Prentice said the world has to first negotiate a new climate change treaty and Canada and the United States must finish their continental agreement on the same issue.
"I think it's fair to say that this all needs to knit together," Prentice said during a teleconference call from Copenhagen.
Prentice is taking part in the last round of climate change talks before the formal United Nations conference begins next month.
He also dampened any hope an international treaty will be reached in December.
"I think even a few months ago there had been an expectation on the part of the outside world that we would arrive at a full international treaty in December in Copenhagen. That clearly is not going to happen."
Instead, Canada is hoping a broad political agreement can be reached next month that will maintain the momentum towards a full international treaty, he said.
Harper and his Harpies - running in circles around climate change? Q.E.D.
Harper and his Harpies - happy on doing nothing about climate change? Q.E.D.
And let's pass on the hot potato to the next generation, eh? Because, after all, something like climate change can certainly wait, no?
Right.
Harper and his Harpies - incompetence de luxe?
You betcha.
(Addendum: see also the Jurist's take)
Y'know, this is why i put you on my blog-roll.
ReplyDeleteFWIW: I don't know enough about the science of global warming to pontificate, ... but i dew no that the bulk of the "expert opinion" that the usual suspects have vomited forward to justify the corporate subservience have been fakers and fairies.
It might be the case that bringing down our carbon output had until two years ago to have any value for one billion people and we lost that time.
if'n that is so, then we've failed the future mightily.
To paraphrase Chairman Mao: "Whoever told you that humanity had to survive."
Let us note that Canada's newly discovered intransigence on climate change is directly related to the Alberta Tar Sands, the biggest toxic industrial wasteland on the face of the earth. Hindering tar sands development is considered a non-starter, though this is not publicly acknowledged.
ReplyDeleteThwap: "if'n that is so, then we've failed the future mightily" - that is exactly the case.
ReplyDeleteKen: exactly indeed - that is the crux of it.