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Topics => Weather, Climate, & Natural Disasters => Topic started by: BMG on December 03, 2011, 10:58:13 AM

Title: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: BMG on December 03, 2011, 10:58:13 AM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-02/canada-may-escape-6-7-billion-bill-by-exiting-kyoto-protocol.html (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-02/canada-may-escape-6-7-billion-bill-by-exiting-kyoto-protocol.html)

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Canada, the country furthest from meeting its commitment to cut carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, may save as much as $6.7 billion by exiting the global climate change agreement and not paying for offset credits.

The country’s greenhouse-gas emissions are almost a third higher than 1990 levels, and it has a 6 percent CO2 reduction target for the end of 2012. If it couldn’t meet its goal, Canada would have to buy carbon credits, under the rules of the legally binding treaty.

Canada, which has the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, would be the first of 191 signatories to the Kyoto Protocol to annul its emission-reduction obligations. While Environment Minister Peter Kent declined to confirm Nov. 28 that Canada is preparing to pull out of Kyoto, which may ease the burden for oil-sands producers and coal-burning utilities, he said the government wouldn’t make further commitments to it.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Libertas on December 03, 2011, 11:32:05 AM
Gosh, no doubt the Goreacle will pay a visit and ask them wtf?!

 ::hysterical::

Paying lip-service to greenies has a steep cost on economies, jobs and budgets, doesn't it?

Gee, who would have thought that?!

 ::)
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: ToddF on December 04, 2011, 07:27:26 AM
There isn't a chance in hell that Canada is going to cough up billions to appease a religious cult.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: BMG on December 04, 2011, 08:19:07 AM
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There isn't a chance in hell that Canada is going to cough up billions to appease a religious cult.

Meh, I guess I don't see why they wouldn't. They've been doing just that for years already. So have we for that matter...so has the entire population of the planet now that I think of it.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Predator Don on December 04, 2011, 08:56:33 AM
Canada wants to practice whet most liberals believe.......... Those pesky "green"laws do not apply to us.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Sectionhand on December 04, 2011, 01:04:04 PM
Reality is finally causing at least some countries to wise up .
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: John Florida on December 04, 2011, 05:10:19 PM
 According to my cousin what they're seeing in the papers up there is that some countries signed on for Kyoto aren't gong to be able to meet the standard for 15 years if ever so they see it as a waste of time and money to continue on.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: AlanS on December 04, 2011, 06:06:07 PM
According to my cousin what they're seeing in the papers up there is that some countries signed on for Kyoto aren't gong to be able to meet the standard for 15 years if ever so they see it as a waste of time and money to continue on.

Slow to catch on, aren't they?
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: John Florida on December 04, 2011, 06:26:46 PM
According to my cousin what they're seeing in the papers up there is that some countries signed on for Kyoto aren't gong to be able to meet the standard for 15 years if ever so they see it as a waste of time and money to continue on.

Slow to catch on, aren't they?

 Remember who's been in charge for decades up there.Harper is probably the first conservative they've had in decades.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: charlesoakwood on December 04, 2011, 06:33:09 PM

I've still got that image of Pierre Trudeau's wife close to my heart.
One thing about liberals, they really are...
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: John Florida on December 04, 2011, 07:27:11 PM

I've still got that image of Pierre Trudeau's wife close to my heart.
One thing about liberals, they really are...


 Ask the Rolling Stones how liberal she was. ::hysterical::
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Sectionhand on December 05, 2011, 02:53:07 AM

I've still got that image of Pierre Trudeau's wife close to my heart.
One thing about liberals, they really are...


 Ask the Rolling Stones how liberal she was. ::hysterical::

Ask Geraldo Rivera after he got that hummer !
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Libertas on December 05, 2011, 06:58:33 AM

I've still got that image of Pierre Trudeau's wife close to my heart.
One thing about liberals, they really are...


 Ask the Rolling Stones how liberal she was. ::hysterical::

Ask Geraldo Rivera after he got that hummer !

http://shagtree.com/relationships/dating-history/margaret-trudeau (http://shagtree.com/relationships/dating-history/margaret-trudeau)

 ::hysterical::

Must have been desperate!

 ::hysterical::
Title: Canada officially ditches Kyoto
Post by: IronDioPriest on December 13, 2011, 12:37:11 PM
Canada formally pulls out of Kyoto Protocol on climate change (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/canada-formally-pulls-out-kyoto-protocol-on-climate-change/2011/12/12/gIQAWE1NqO_story.html)

TORONTO — Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won’t help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.

Environment Minister Peter Kent said that Canada is invoking its legal right to withdraw and said Kyoto doesn’t represent the way forward for Canada or the world...

More linked @ WaPo...
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Libertas on December 13, 2011, 01:36:49 PM
And of course they have to blame us and the ChiCom's...

Just speak in plain language the treaty was a joke from the get-go and will cost your economy too much and call it a day!

Canadian's...

 ::)
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Damn_Lucky on December 13, 2011, 04:23:02 PM
It is amazing what happens when reality hits. ::fail::
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Pandora on December 13, 2011, 08:59:05 PM
There is no climate crisis.  Fer crissake.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: IronDioPriest on December 13, 2011, 09:15:51 PM
And of course they have to blame us and the ChiCom's...

Just speak in plain language the treaty was a joke from the get-go and will cost your economy too much and call it a day!

Canadian's...

 ::)

Yup. While I applaud the decision to bail out on this joke treaty, it is sure cowardly for them to use the "US and China won't do it so it can't work" scapegoat. They should just call it what it is - a junk treaty based on politically motivated junk science. Force every nation that is trying to keep the house of cards from tumbling to deal with their position. What they've done is bail on the treaty for the good of Canada, while allowing GlobalWarming cultists to blame their departure on the United States (and China).
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: John Florida on December 13, 2011, 09:46:51 PM
And of course they have to blame us and the ChiCom's...

Just speak in plain language the treaty was a joke from the get-go and will cost your economy too much and call it a day!

Canadian's...

 ::)

Yup. While I applaud the decision to bail out on this joke treaty, it is sure cowardly for them to use the "US and China won't do it so it can't work" scapegoat. They should just call it what it is - a junk treaty based on politically motivated junk science. Force every nation that is trying to keep the house of cards from tumbling to deal with their position. What they've done is bail on the treaty for the good of Canada, while allowing GlobalWarming cultists to blame their departure on the United States (and China).

 They can blame anybody they like but the truth is that it didn't stop them from joining to begin with even if we didn't join. The simple fact is they know it doesn't mean chit and all that money went to buy PC cred with libs.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: charlesoakwood on December 13, 2011, 10:35:20 PM

Remember?  Our acid rain is killing their forest.
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: Libertas on December 14, 2011, 06:42:32 AM
What do I do with all the acid built up in my gut as a result of having to put up hearing, reading and seeing the non-stop lies and distortions of the Eco-Nazi/Climate-Cult trash?!?!?!
Title: Re: Canada considering ditching Kyoto
Post by: John Florida on December 14, 2011, 08:58:07 AM
What do I do with all the acid built up in my gut as a result of having to put up hearing, reading and seeing the non-stop lies and distortions of the Eco-Nazi/Climate-Cult trash?!?!?!

 I treat it as bad humor. As long as we know the truth lies won't hurt us.