CTV News
11/27/2011
Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned.
The Harper government has tentatively planned an announcement for a few days before Christmas, CTV’s Roger Smith reported Sunday evening.
The developments come as Environment Minister Peter Kent prepares for a climate conference in Durban, South Africa that opens on Monday, with delegates from 190 countries seeking a new international agreement for cutting emissions.
Issues on the agenda include extending the Kyoto emission targets, a move being championed by Christiana Figueres, head of the UN climate secretariat.
Kent said in the House of Commons on Nov. 22 he won’t sign a document at the Durban conference that extends the Kyoto targets.
“Canada goes to Durban with a number of countries sharing the same objective, and that is to put Kyoto behind us,” Kent said…
…Kent told The Canadian Press that the Kyoto Protocol is out of date because it excludes major emitters among developing nations, including China, India and Brazil…
Read the complete article (which includes video) at CTV News.
H/T Althouse
Update: Steyn slams Obama’s ‘poseur mentality’ on Keystone pipeline
…Obama, he added, “doesn’t mind if some Third World dictatorship wants to supply America its energy, as long as it’s beyond horizon and out of sight. But if it’s a first-world nation, we feel that we can in a sense act in terms of the national interest like a kind of non-profit organization, like some worthy body — a bit like a national version of the Sierra Club itself…
“…That is actually a good example of the sclerosis that afflicts the West,” Steyn said. “This is a hard-headed decision — an energy decision. He thinks that by mothballing it a year Canada is, like, going to keep all this fabulous energy in a box in the basement until he’s ready to make a decision. It won’t be like that. There are all kinds of people on the planet who want this stuff, including the Chinese, which is a resource-poor nation. And the idea you can afford to — a national superpower, an international superpower — can take this kind of poseur mentality to questions of its national interest is deeply destructive.”…
Update 2: Study Reveals Developed Nations Release Far Less CO2 Gas Than Third World Countries
…Industrialized nations emit far less carbon dioxide than the Third World, according to latest evidence from Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Global warming alarmism is turned on its head and the supposed role of carbon dioxide in climate change may be wrong, if the latest evidence from Japan’s scientists is to be believed.
Japanese national broadcaster, NHK World broke the astonishing story on their main Sunday evening news bulletin (October 30, 2011). Television viewers learned that the country’s groundbreaking IBUKU satellite, launched in June 2009, appears to have scorched an indelible hole in conventional global warming theory…
Update 3: UN “Expert” Warns Failure To Secure Climate Change Deal Could Lead To War…
The UN’s so-called “expert” also made the standard calls for radical redistribution of wealth on a global scale…
