Nairobi, Kenya - The Kyoto Protocol is being used to divide Canada, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose told the UN Climate Conference in a speech that outraged environmentalists and opposition critics.
But what she doesn't say is that the protocol divides Canadians into one very large group, the 77 per cent who believe Canada should meet or exceed its Kyoto targets for cutting emissions and who oppose the current government's inaction on the issue, and one very small group, about 20 per cent, who do not.
Of course, polls also indicate that a very large part of this very small group live in the Tory stronghold of Alberta, which among the provinces is the largest producer of greenhouse gases. And this begs the question: are the Tories acting for Canadians, or for a narrow provincial interest?
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Dr Roy says it best . . . . . .
http://torydrroy.blogspot.com/2006/11/fiberal-sociopathy.html
fiberal sociopathy
Being a fiberal means never having to say sorry. Fiberal arrogance knows no limits. Take
fiberal John Godfrey( please take him) he is able to say with a straight face that the fiberals had a plan for green house gases and if instead of 13 years of power they had had just a few more the fiberals could have accomplished something.
Yesterday, thanks in large part to Canada's opposition MPs bad-mouthing their own country at the UN climate change conference in Kenya, Canada received the "fossil of the day" award along with Australia for ranking low on an environmental group's list for efforts to combat global warming.
"The majority of Canadians are firmly and strongly behind living up to our Kyoto obligations," said John Godfrey, the Liberal environment critic. Did he blush? It didn't say in The Canadian Press story, but he should have, since during the last 12 years of Liberal rule, CO2 emissions increased in Canada by about 30% and the Liberals' plan to combat greenhouse gas wasn't released until their last year in power. For shame. Not that it would have done anything to the world's climate anyway had they got cracking in the early '90s.
Given the report on fiberal incompetence and waste on this file, these comments show an ability to lie without any pangs of conscience. Such bold faced liars are often termed sociopaths. Here are some of the symptoms of sociopathy:
not learning from experience
no sense of responsibility
inability to form meaningful relationships
inability to control impulses
lack of moral sense
chronically antisocial behavior
no change in behavior after punishment
emotional immaturity
lack of guilt
self-centeredness
Many of these symptoms seem to be rampant in the fiberal party. Perhaps with a great deal of counselling the fiberals could overcome these sociopathic tendencies, but I doubt it. fiberals find lying and breathing vital to their election strategy.
Professor Tim Patterson, a paleoclimatologist in Carleton’s Department of Earth Sciences, says the science used to establish the Kyoto Protocol is flawed. Patterson, who studies evidence in ocean and lake sediments to decipher how climate has varied over the past two million years, claims that the warming effect scientists are observing is mostly natural.
“In the eight years since the Kyoto Protocol was first introduced, there has been a revolution in climate change science. What we have learned is that many of the scientific assumptions underlying Kyoto are false. Climate is not naturally constant and global warming is not evidence of human interference,” he insists. “Climate change, including global warming and cooling, is perfectly normal.”
Patterson contends that the sun is the reason why the 20th century has experienced some of the hottest temperatures in recent history.
“My own research shows that, on all time scales, there is a very good correlation between the Earth’s temperature and natural celestial phenomena, such as changes in the brightness of the sun. The fact that the sun is now brighter than it has been in 8,000 years should have a major impact on climate.”
Patterson is not alone in his claims. In fact, a large number of scientists from around the world agree that anthropogenic (human) activity is not the cause of global warming. A petition established by The Science and Environmental Policy Project, based in the U.S., includes 15,000 signatures from scientists and academics expressing scepticism about the science underlying Kyoto.
Fred Michel, an associate professor in earth sciences and director of Carleton’s environmental sciences program, along with a number of climate science colleagues, presented the opinion that “Kyoto is unsubstantiated scientifically” at a news conference in 2002.
“We showed that climate change is a natural occurrence and would continue unabated even if all human activity on the planet ceased immediately. The influence that anthropogenic carbon dioxide has on global climate is simply miniscule.”
Tad Murty, an expert in meteorology and physical oceanography, who is an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, states his views more strongly.
“This is the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities. The atmosphere hasn’t changed much in 280 million years, and there have always been cycles of warming and cooling. The Cretaceous period was the warmest on earth. You could have grown tomatoes at the North Pole,” he says.
The Global Warming as sun driven claim has been debunked on numerous ocasions, most recently here:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060913_sun_warming.html
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