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O.K. so our Canadian government (Conservatives, they be) gave their Throne speech yesterday, and basically didn't have an awful lot new to say about things of a climate change nature. This equates to, I guess, the continued stance of not even trying to abide by the Kyoto Protocol, but rather rely on a more tempered response which aims for a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Through it all, I have a feeling most Canadians are not quite on the up and up on the details of the Conservatives climate change platform, which largely revolves around their Canada Clean Air Act. Anyway, in light of this, it would do us all good to be at least a little more informed in this arena, and this paper seems as good as place as any. It's part opinion piece, but the background presented gives you a nice and reasonable overview of the intentions of Kyoto vs the intentions of what Prime Minister Harper would like to aspire to.
I hope, like myself, you'll come away thinking that it really doesn't measure up to what most scientists feel this government needs to do.
(link to "Canada's Clean Air Act: The Solution or the Problem")
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Climate change
Recent research by Henrik Svensmark and his group at the Danish National
Space Center points to the real cause of the recent warming trend. In a
series of experiments on the formation of clouds, these scientists have
shown that fluctuations in the Sun's output cause the observed changes in the
Earth's temperature.
In the past, scientists believed the fluctuations in the Sun's output were
too small to cause the observed amount of temperature change, hence the need
to look for other causes like carbon dioxide. However, these new
experiments show that fluctuations in the Sun's output are in fact large
enough, so there is no longer a need to resort to carbon dioxide as the
cause of the recent warming trend.
The discovery of the real cause of the recent increase in the Earth's
temperature is indeed a convenient truth. It means humans are not to blame
for the increase. It also means there is absolutely nothing we can, much
less do, to correct the situation.
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Thomas Laprade
Thunder Bay, Ont.
Ph. 807 3457258
Posted by: Thomas Laprade | October 18, 2007 2:37 AM