Translation: We should be kissing ass rather than kicking ass. Don't ask questions. Follow along like sheep........the UN is certainly a model to follow.
"So, how does it feel to be the citizen of a rogue state?"
The British professor asking the question was serious.
We were in Cambridge, England, and yet the words "Kyoto," "Bali" and "Canada" were on many lips.
For on the other side of the planet, Environment Minister John Baird was blocking an agreement that would have bound the world's wealthiest countries to specific targets for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions after 2012 – when the Kyoto Protocol expires.
Canada, traditionally a proponent of multilateral co-operation and environmental stewardship, was thumbing its nose at the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the 2,500-member scientific body that had recently warned that the planet faces "abrupt and irreversible" damage unless greenhouse gas emissions are stabilized by 2015.
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First off, please allow me to apologize in advance for the shameless plug.
However, I examined Byers' piece a little more closely, and found it to be wrought with factual errors and logical fallacies.
Personally, I find him to be quite a self-indulgent little ideologue. It's not the first time I've caught him with his factual pants around his ankles.
No apologies necessary but hopefully you have a CSA approved flak jacket because those that bow at the alter before Gore/Suziki do not take kindly to anyone questioning their tilting with windmills. I went through the ozone layer hole debacle and the only think I have seen is the chemical companies getting richer and a number of cottage industries being formed thanks to government legislation.
As someone pointed out their is no question we are experiencing climate change....if we weren't then we would still be in the ice age.
Well, to be honest with you, I think humans do have an impact on climate change. The greenhouse effect has been scientifically demonstrated.
However, I don't think humans activity is, by any means, the primary cause of climate change. Far from it.
That being said, I personally think it's wise to do whatever we can to curtail the small amount of impact our activity has on climate change. Even if our activity didn't have an impact, I think it would still be wise to do something to curb greenhouse gas emissions. After all, that stuff all goes somewhere. Guess where? The air we breathe. I know I don't want that. I think it's one thing that everyone can agree on.
I think disaster is far from imminent. But I think it's an issue the government should be acting on, and one point on which I actually do disapprove of our government on is the lack of action on this particular issue.
But aside from that, I've reaped the Suzuki whirlwind before. The ironic thing was that I wrote an article that briefly critiqued him, but then largely praised him because I feel he's motivated by genuine concern, not a political agenda.
Someone who works for Suzuki paid me a visit on my blog. It was interesting, to say the least. Perhaps even enlightening.
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