Right as the Conservatives are about to release their "Green Plan Two" package and right in the middle of the Liberal leadership campaign a severe wrench will be thrown into things (h/t National Newswatch).
..."The content will be extremely critical of how money and programs were handled," said a non-partisan source familiar with some of the report's findings.
...The source said the audit will also criticize environmental programs under the watch of Mr. Dion's predecessor, David Anderson.
For those who think this gives the Conservatives a free pass I point to this.
...An internal examination of Liberal climate-change spending by then-prime-minister Paul Martin's advisers, which was obtained and reported on by The Globe in 2005, warned that the government's focus on encouraging voluntary action through advertising and brochures had produced poor and sometimes "terribly disappointing" results.
The key word there is voluntary. We will see what there Clean Air Act plan is but if it is voluntary then the same problems can ensue. And we all know by now that there will be very little in the way towards GHG caps which is all fine and well because it is scientifically impossible to stop a chaotic system, such as the climate, from changing.
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“And we all know by now that there will be very little in the way towards GHG caps which is all fine and well because it is scientifically impossible to stop a chaotic system, such as the climate, from changing.”
As we all know by now? Um, Greg, I know no such thing, and what I do know points to something completely different. Would you mind discussing your evidence for this claim?
Posted by Idealistic Pragmatist | September 14, 2006 10:08 AM
Posted on September 14, 2006 10:08
Which claim? That the Conservatives are not going introduce a rigorous cap on greenhouse gas emissions or that the we cannot create a steady state climate?
Posted by Greg Staples | September 14, 2006 10:34 AM
Posted on September 14, 2006 10:34
A Greenpeace canvasser knocked and I told him that I thought Kyoto was politically motivated by the anti-capitalists but that as a conservative I was all for conserving and cleaning up our air. I mentioned that I had invested in a syndicate for windmills.
Then the guy says “ Ahhh…but that’s FOR profit”.
I said, “Yes and if it’s not profitable it won’t succeed and you’ve just proved my point about being anti-capitalist motivated.”
Posted by nomdenet | September 14, 2006 10:35 AM
Posted on September 14, 2006 10:35
“Green Plan Two”
This implies that there was a “Green Plan One”. Does anyone remember a “Green Plan One”?
which is all fine and well because it is scientifically impossible to stop a chaotic system, such as the climate, from changing.
I seem to recall someone saying something quite similar about the ozone layer.
Posted by Robert McClelland | September 14, 2006 11:05 AM
Posted on September 14, 2006 11:05
Elizabeth May (and group) declared Brian Mulroney to be the “greenest Prime Minister” in part due to Green Plan One, so yes people remember it.
And people the term is climate “change”. A nonsense term that requires nonsense treatment. The climate is constantly in change and it would be impossible to have climate status quo. To paraphrase something else, when everything is caused by climate change nothing is. If you mean Global Warming say Global Warming.
Posted by Greg Staples | September 14, 2006 11:18 AM
Posted on September 14, 2006 11:18
If you mean Global Warming say Global Warming.
Greg, are you implying the proponents of the global warming apocolypse have abandoned their pet call-sign in favour of a more uiquitous phrase as a hedge against a declining trend in average global temperature? They wouldn’t do that. Would they?
Posted by Dr. Strangelove | September 14, 2006 3:28 PM
Posted on September 14, 2006 15:28
Robert - Green Plan One was Mulroney’s, as I would have thought you’d recall.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060420/mulroneygreencp_060419/20060420?hub=SciTech
Posted by Mark Dowling | September 14, 2006 3:47 PM
Posted on September 14, 2006 15:47