Enviro nuts blow smoke Congratulations to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment Minister Jim Prentice for receiving both the "Colossal Fossil" award and the most "Fossil of the Day" awards from the enviro nuts at the now-concluded Copenhagen climate summit.
Further to the blog entry I wrote on Saturday about the futility of the transportation carbon tax, Environment Canada has some damning new figures for the province of British Columbia.
As B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell was accepting an award in Copenhagen for introducing a carbon tax, Environment Canada released a report that shows the only province in Canada to report an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from major industries in 2008 was our own beautiful B.C.
These figures cover “facility greenhouse gas emissions”, which result from power plants and heavy industries such as mining, pulp and paper, natural gas and petroleum extraction. And guess what? Our province has increased these emissions thanks largely to oil and gas extraction, thanks to the Campbell government subsidies to oil and gas companies, which have produced record royalties in the past three years.
Delegates to the Copenhagen conference say they live energy efficient lives — at home, anyway.
Evan Solomon interviewed David Suzuki on the CBC the other day about the Copenhagen climate summit.
The whole interview is here. (Go ahead: Drive yourself nuts)
But let's highlight the bit below, in which Mr. Suzuki explains how Ottawa's efforts to safeguard jobs and the economy is the equivalent of the U.S. southern states building a society based on slavery. Solomon gives him a chance to backtrack on this ("David, just for the record, and I know you're passionate, but is comparing this to slavery, is that fair, to demonize the other side like that?") but Suzuki is sticking to it. Trying to save jobs in Alberta is the same as enslaving human beings.
It's apparently also the same as the space race, because people thought that would be expensive too, and in the end we beat the Russians, so there! (Note to David: They didn't finance the space race by closing down Alberta and charging everyone else a big new tax).
Forget the freak show in Copenhagen to embarrass Canada, led by radical greens with their tiresome "Fossil" awards, shamefully promoted by grandstanding Toronto Mayor David Miller, who "accepted" one claiming he, too, was embarrassed.
An event billed as an "unprecedented mass mobilization" ended up attracting fewer than 30 climate-change activists to a candlelight rally last night.
Graph via Steve McIntyre
My syndicated column today looks at the global warming cultists in the Obama administration who are working overtime to paper over the ClimateGate scandal. Yesterday, Phil Jones, the head of the U.K.’s Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia stepped aside while the university investigates. Penn State prof Michael Mann, purveyor of the infamous hockey stick graph of spiking global temperatures peddled by Al Gore, is also under investigation. GOP Sen. James Inhofe, vigilant watchdog over global warming shenanigans, wants Babs Boxer to investigate. As Obama heads to Copenhagen to crusade for massive interventions to stop global warming, a new Harris Poll shows a significant shift in public opinion away from the cult of climate change. Jonah Goldberg dissects the groupthink that has gripped the global warming industry and its media enablers. Ed Driscoll takes you on a tour through global warming evolution in six and a half minutes. Well now: “Moderate” (liberal) GOP candidates/lawmakers led by GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Mark Kirk are running as fast as they can from the global warming hot mess.
Should David Suzuki Be Jailed? He Should If We Listen To David Suzuki
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May joins writer George Monbiot to argue in favour of action on climate change in a debate Dec. 1, 2009, in Toronto with author Bjorn Lomborg and former British chancellor Lord Nigel Lawson.
LUCAS OLENIUK/TORONTO STAROTTAWA–He has likened flying across the Atlantic Ocean to child abuse, equating their impact on human life.
But a thousand kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions spewed into the atmosphere by a jumbo jet is a pittance compared to the damage Canada is set to do at next week's global climate change summit in Copenhagen, says famed British muckraker George Monbiot.
No one person can convince the Conservative government to change its climate course, accept stronger emissions reduction targets and crack down on Alberta's oil sands. Three opposition parties with a majority of MPs in the House of Commons have tried and failed repeatedly to do so for the last four years.
In the past six weeks, a number of remarkable events took place that speak to the future of our world.
I went to the most recent Munk Debate on Tuesday night. It was on climate change. Or at least that is what the resolution was: "Be it resolved climate change is mankind's defining crisis and demands a commensurate international response."
The federal government has cut funding to a Toronto aid group that helps the world's poorest countries cope with the ravages of global warming.
