Canada Failing to Put Climate Change Plans in Action

Twin_Moose said:

25 Countries That Produce the Most CO2 Emissions
We are # 10 on the list

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Twin_Moose said:

Tories, Libs fight over costs of climate action in election-campaign preview

It's not another tax it's pricing to eliminate Carbon in the atmosphere wow great comeback

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Twin_Moose said:

Climate Barbie saving Canada for her kids again

National climate emergency declared by House of Commons

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Ron in Regina said:

A National climate emergency? National climate. National. So Climate or Climates stop at National borders now? Anybody else seeing the fault in this National Climate Emergency here?

I wonder what the difference in the climate is between Portal ND & North Portal SK? I wonder what the difference in climate will be between these two locations after a couple of decades of a National Climate Emergency and Carbon Taxes in Canada???

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Curious Cdn said:

It's working on it. Like the Arctic, it isn't ice free yet but it's working on it.

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Jinentonix said:

And do you know how quickly it grew in the first place? Were you aware that when ice ages end, the extraneous ice tends to melt away? Just because some humans currently rely on glacier run off for their water doesn't mean they always did.
And what about the Arctic? You know what's interesting about the Arctic ice claims? They are based off the 1979 sea ice extent. Why is that important? For two reasons. 1) It's the first year that NASA started tracking sea ice extent with satellites. And 2) 1979 had the highest sea ice extent in over 50 years. 1979 was an anomaly and yet THAT is the base year that sea ice extent is judged by.
But here's the real issue and it's bullshit. Canada is being made a pariah for no good reason. In 2017 the entire country generated 652.3 TWh of electricity. Of that, only 19% was derived from fossil fuels from all sources. The other 81% comes from clean energy sources of which 60% was hydroelectric. Jesus Christ, when it comes to power generation we're doing better than at least half the Eurotrash countries the progtards keep pointing to as fine examples to follow.
In 2017 Canada generated 3% of the global total of electricity while only generating 1.6% of the total global GHG emissions, from ALL sources; industrial, agricultural, transportation, the energy sector etc.
Now the latest claim coming from foreign sources is that our natgas is dirtier than coal. It hasn't gained much traction, yet. But I can see enough morons in Canada being stupid enough to buy it. They were stupid enough to buy the smear campaign against our oil.

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Ron in Regina said:

A National climate emergency? National climate. National. So Climate or Climates stop at National borders now? Anybody else seeing the fault in this National Climate Emergency here?

I wonder what the difference in the climate is between Portal ND & North Portal SK? I wonder what the difference in climate will be between these two locations after a couple of decades of a National Climate Emergency and Carbon Taxes in Canada???

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Why should Canada fight climate change?
Finally, someone proclaimed an obvious truth that few dare to utter publicly. According to Moody’s Analytics, Canada will benefit from climate change. Although it will shock many, this forecast should surprise no one. Canada is a very large, cold country, with 90 per cent of its population huddled within 100 miles of its southern border and an enormous agricultural potential if the land warms up. There will also be new opportunities for oil, gas and mineral development in the Arctic. And let’s not ignore the greater personal comfort of living in a more hospitable climate.
According to a CBC story about Moody’s study, “when all the changes to things like tourism demand, crop yields and the growing season are factored in, there’s a slight net positive.”
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Assuming a one-degree Celsius temperature rise, Moody’s calculates that our economy would be unaffected in 2048. A rise of 2.4 degrees would increase GDP by 0.1 per cent and four degrees would boost it by 0.3 per cent. Not much, but still positive, and certainly not the terrifying calamity we are warned to expect.
The impact on farming, however, would be dramatic. In the three Prairie provinces alone, an area more than twice the size of France, arable land could increase between 26 and 40 per cent by 2040, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. With improvements in farm technology, drought-resistant crops and new harvesting methods, Canada would have a wonderful opportunity to help feed a hungry world. And not a moment too soon: according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, agricultural output needs to increase by 50 per cent over the next 30 years to keep pace with world population growth.
Paradoxically, Canada is imposing burdensome costs and regulations to try to prevent what for us would be beneficial warming. But let’s not be so selfish. Other countries will be hurt by climate change, so we need to do our part as good global citizens. Unfortunately, at only 1.6 per cent of global GHG emissions, Canada cannot achieve a measurable impact on global temperatures, even if it met the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change target, which would devastate our economy.
OK, we cannot make a practical difference, but surely we have to try, if only as a symbol of our determination to help the world counter an existential threat. Mind you, that is tantamount to elevating a meaningless gesture to a moral imperative. Moreover, once you get past all the doomsday prophesying and virtue-signalling, other countries’ commitments are honoured mainly in the breach, as global emissions continue to rise.
In a last-gasp rationale for sacrifice to the climate gods, we are urged to serve as a shining example of rectitude, presumably to inspire or shame others into action for their own good. Now we have truly arrived in fantasyland. Does anyone seriously imagine Canada can convince the four biggest carbon emitters, China, the U.S., India and Russia, who together are responsible for 57 per cent of global emissions, to follow our example of sequestered resources and undermined prosperity? The prime minister’s hectoring has zero influence on his counterparts. Two benefit from our inability to export energy overseas. Three barely tolerate his presence. And the fourth, Donald Trump, has abandoned the Paris accord.
Meanwhile, we are not doing what we can to address extreme weather, which directly and severely harms our economy and endangers Canadians. According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, insured damages for extreme weather events amounted to $1.9 billion last year, with an estimated triple that for damage to public infrastructure.
Our focus needs to be on adaptation, reduction and protection, as well as on building resilience and increasing survivability. Initiatives could include: new land-use plans and building codes; incentives for moving homes and businesses away from high-risk areas, especially coasts; constructing flood defences and raising the levels of dikes; developing drought-tolerant crops; making forests less vulnerable to storms and fires and setting aside land corridors that permit species migration. Other collaborative strategies are early warning systems, co-ordinated emergency preparedness and public education about insurance protection and flood- and fire-prevention best practices.
Right now our overall approach is piecemeal. Canada badly needs competent leadership rather than dead-end ideological obsessions, rent-seeking and bureaucratic empire-building. We have witnessed the current government’s ineffective reaction to this pressing environmental challenge. Leading into the election, the other party leaders, and especially Andrew Scheer, head of a government-in-waiting, should tell Canadians how they would take it on differently, possibly with a federal-provincial-municipal action plan.
Instead, the House of Commons declares a “National Climate Emergency,” the emperor struts around with invisible policy clothes and the official climate jeremiad simultaneously scares our children and encourages progressives to seek an ever-larger role for an all-knowing government. Things will go very poorly for both the economy and the environment if we stubbornly continue to work against the national interest, pursue unachievable objectives, posture to unimpressed foreigners and inadequately prepare for extreme weather. Alas, the disconnect between belief and reality seems destined to endure for some time.

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Hoid said:

pipe dreams

bitumen is not natural gas - it isn't even crude.

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Twin_Moose said:

gFight climate change by eating meat, say Ottawa farmers

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Curious Cdn said:

I saw that article. That's old fashioned free ranging your cattle. The only problem with those traditional organic farming techniques is that they won't feed a planet with over 7 billion people on it. If half of us would kindly die, it'll work.

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The federal funds will come from the $2-billion Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund. This funding exists to help Canadian communities deal with damages caused by climate change and extreme weather events.
The Grand Parc de l'Ouest will be located in a lowland area of Montreal, where flooding is a frequent occurrence during the spring thaw.
The investment will enable the city "to protect and enhance several irreplaceable wetlands, in addition to upgrading stormwater outfalls in order to better protect neighbouring communities against spring floods," as per the official statement from the office of the Prime Minister.....Much more in the link

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Twin_Moose said:

Justin Trudeau Just Promised $50,000,000 For Montreal To Build Its Giant New Park

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Twin_Moose said:

Fight climate change by eating meat, say Ottawa farmers

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captain morgan said:

I do my part each day to save the planet by eating meat... I winder if I can get a Fed subsidy for my valiant efforts?

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