Canada may already be carbon neutral, so why are we keeping it a secret?

[Johnnny]

Its from May 2016, but i think it deserves a look at though.

Canada may already be carbon neutral, so why are we keeping it a secret? | Financial Post

Here’s a seemingly simple question: Is Canada a net carbon dioxide emitter? You would think so from reading news headlines. We’ve earned the scorn of environmentalists, NGOs, and media outlets galore, labelled with such juvenile epithets as “fossil of the year” or “corrupt petro-state.”

Sadly, lost in all the hyperbole is the actual science. There is nothing quantitative about the vague idea that, as a “progressive nation,” Canada should be expected to “do more” to fight climate change.

But therein lies the rub; Canada is poised to immediately do more to combat climate change than almost every other country in the world. How, you ask? Well, by doing more of the same. If that sounds ludicrous, let me explain.

Most Canadians would agree that our response to climate change needs to be scientifically sound, environmentally sustainable and financially realistic, as well as global, comprehensive, and holistic. Right now, our approach is none of those things; the public discourse is driven by a myopic, ideological obsession with carbon emissions alone. What else is there, you ask?

 

[PoliticalNick]

Canada is not carbon neutral. Far from it, we are a massive carbon sink. We emit 1.6% of the global emissions but have enough forest to absorb nearly 15% of global emissions. We shouldn't be getting a tax on our emissions, we should be charging China and the US for removing their carbon output from the atmosphere.

 

[EagleSmack]

There is not enough money in being neutral.

 

[Durry]

Canada is not carbon neutral. Far from it, we are a massive carbon sink. We emit 1.6% of the global emissions but have enough forest to absorb nearly 15% of global emissions. We shouldn't be getting a tax on our emissions, we should be charging China and the US for removing their carbon output from the atmosphere.

You are absolutely correct, Canada is a massive carbon sink.

 

[darkbeaver]

Carbon neutral is mankinds greatest wish.It would mean our extinction. The process demands your participation.

Any limit to carbon is a limit to the lifeforms we co-occupy with.

And the laws of the Carbon Cycle were preserved. Enableing future generations of smart pigchimps. They want us to defy the Gods of the solar system with our money. Im certain that it won't work. They are all barking mad.

Next they will tell that they will stop the snow. That's, right down to your last nickles and dimes. The dark cold ages return.

Even Trump cannot stop the ice age.

 

[Durry]

I'm glad Trump got elected Pres, he will finally bring some sanity to this carbon crap!!

 

[darkbeaver]

I have to fix a snow plow and snow blower this week. My fortold end was always to be cold.

They will find me in the spring, frozen into a drift, where the heart attack took me,

 

[Danbones]

Bloomberg News... NOVEMBER 15, 2016
One portion of the giant field, known as the Wolfcamp formation, was found to hold 20 billion barrels of oil trapped in four layers of shale beneath West Texas. That’s almost three times larger than North Dakota’s Bakken play and the single largest U.S. unconventional crude accumulation ever assessed, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. At current prices, that oil is worth almost $900 billion
Shale oil in Permian’s Wolfcamp formation called biggest field in U.S. | The Star-Telegram

look we are drowning in the stuff
we have carbon tax on fuel because the stuff is common as dirt now and has to be throttled to keep the worth up
hence all the prohibitchin