More rhetoric from the wanna be Prime Minister... Taking us back to the 18th century!
MONCTON, N.B. -- Canada will miss out on an “industrial revolution” unless voters replace Prime Minister Stephen Harper with the Liberals, says federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.(If Dion has his way we will be back performing manual labour instead of using machines re Kyoto)
“He doesn’t see the link between the environment and the economy,” Dion told party supporters in Moncton on Tuesday.(Who's economy Dion? China's or Canada's?)
“The prime minister of Canada a few weeks ago spoke about the (here we go again) so-called greenhouse gas emissions. He does not believe in the science of climate change.”(What a mind reader, absolutely incredible!)
Dion said his party is preparing an election platform based on the pillars of the environment, economy, and social justice.(Sounds just like the RED BOOK. Full of empty promises that the liberals will not deliver on. Just like the promise of meeting Kyoto targets the first time around, eh Dion.)
“I want the best platform Canadians ever saw,” Dion said in a short, campaign-style speech.(The best platform Canadians could ever see involving liberals, is the one they walk off of on the side of the ship.)
Can you tell I'm getting tired of this? How stupid does he think we are? Does he actually think Canadians are willing to give up our way of life to make HIM look good at some UN Kyoto get together? I rather doubt that. We can do this without killing the existing economy, which it seems, both Dion and Layton are very willing to do to meet Kyoto targets. A made in Canada solution is what we need at this point. One that will clean up this mess and keep our economy flowing at the same time. Canadian politicians need to do more, but not at the expense of the Canadian public!
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Nice to see that some of our major oil producers are in fact doing something to cut down on pollution WITHOUT the government regulating it. The greening of the oil sands
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After a quick trip to some of my favorite blogs, I have read a few different opinions on what effect Baird will have on this file. Most of the left leaning blogs are talking about "hot air" from Baird contributing to the global warming. I have a different opinion though. Being a conservative myself, I applaud this as a major step forward. Bairds cold cold heart will counter act any warming affect that should arise! Baird had this to say today:
Baird said climate change is "a huge priority of Canadians," and one he intends to tackle as soon as he gets up to speed on the scientific and policy issues.
Let me give you a hand in the scientific part of that equation Minister Baird. I suggest you carefully read the findings published in the Dec. 22 edition of the Journal of Science, co-authored by Dr. Jens Herrle a micropaleontology professor at the University of Alberta. I think you may find it very INTERESTING."The continuity and length of the data series we gathered and analyzed allowed for unprecedented insights into the complex interactions between external climate forcing, the global carbon cycle and ice sheet oscillations," said Dr. Jens Herrle, co-author of the paper and a micropaleontology professor at the University of Alberta.
The authors also show how simple models of the global carbon cycle, coupled to orbital controls of global temperature and biological activity, are able to reproduce the important changes observed after the world entered an "ice-house" state about 34 million years ago.
In the early half of the 20th century, Serbian physicist Milutin Milankovitch first proposed that cyclical variations in the Earth-Sun geometry can alter the Earth's climate and these changes can be discovered in the Earth's geological archives, which is exactly what this research team, consisting of members from the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Canada, has done.
"This research is not only concerned with the climate many millions-of-years-ago. Researching and understanding 'extreme' climate events from the geological past allows us to better tune climate models to understand present and future events, and the response to major perturbations of Earth's climate and the global carbon cycle, Herrle added.
I am an avid outdoorsman. I love nature in all its splender. I am all for cleaning up the enviroment as long as that change actually helps clean up the mess we humans have created on this planet. I do my part by cleaning up after assholes who use our lakes and forests as their garbage dumps. I have yet to go fishing without coming back to camp with less than a grociery bag full of garbage collected from in the water or waters edge. I have yet to go hiking without having the same results. It is an absolute disgrace. This is something I do so that perhaps some day, maybe, just maybe, my grand children, okay, great grand children, will never see the same things I do when out trying to enjoy the wilderness.
I am not a Kyoto lover though. Hell, I simply think Kyoto is a total joke. The fault with it is the carbon credits. The only thing the former liberal government gave any thought to, to have Canada meet its targets. Pay to have the problem go away. That is not a solution in my books. I want to see a real change here in Canada. Something we can all see and feel. A cleaner country with less polution including green house gases. I make no appologies for my stance. I simply see a bunch of fear mongering going on to transfer wealth elsewhere. Stop the ranting and raving and give me actual results I can see. Thats all I ask.
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As most of you know, I am not a fan of the Kyoto Protocol. The main reason being, it allows countries to buy their way out of actually doing anything for the environment. That being said, I have no problem with PM Harper giving Allan Amey the BOOT as the people at CanWest News Service puts it. The reason is, as president of the Climate Fund Agency, his job would have been to purchase emission-reduction credits. I do not want one cent of Canadian tax payers money being spent anywhere but in Canada to improve our environment including for the reduction of CO2. I would next expect that this "Climate Fund Agency" will be scrapped completely by PMSH. My fingers are crossed. I know that Dion will be all up in arms over this one. It had his blessing back when he was the do nothing environment minister of the Liberal government in 2005. If you care to read how full of crap he was then, read this. How anyone in this country can agree with spending billions on so called Kyoto units that do not clean up a bloody thing is beyond me. The Clean Air Act, in my opinion, clearly does not go far enough. At the same time it does actually help in cleaning up pollution in Canada which is a good starting point. Now if we could only stop all the ranting and raving out there regarding the environment and sit down like adults and come up with more real solutions to fix the problems, we as a nation would be far better off.
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It appears that the age of consent has been changed to 101(AB) and 135(BC). I am a little confused. Apparently, Western Canada has become of age, but it is not due to the age of the provinces. It is strangely enough based on the fact that the population of Alberta and British Columbia combined(7.69 million), have surpassed that of Quebec(7.65 million). That and, 2006 "was the year when the West, particularly Alberta, had a greater impact on the country's economy than ever before and generated more attention than ever, as well." (sure sounds like a fourteen year old) Even stranger is that Calgary is given all the credit when it is Fort McMurray that is the designated driver of "a speeding car with a gas pedal and no brakes.". As such, taking Calgary around to the fine dinning establishments, frolicking about and not to mention, the bank. While Calgary gets a billion dollar symbolic 59 storey Bow, that no doubt will stroke the ego of many, Fort McMurray is fighting for decent infrastructure to accommodate its growth. The environmental impact of the whole oil and gas industry has yet to be addressed sufficiently never mind the oil sands projects. Then there is also the problem of filling all the jobs currently available and those being created by yet more projects.Western Canada comes of age, but who and what, is getting screwed?
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