[doc30]

One line really struck me in this article:

The Sierra Club of Canada dismissed the Australian study, saying it's not credible and that it's almost impossible to predict what will happen 13 years down the road.

"About 60 per cent of the time when government bases its budget on next year's guesses about what the economy is doing, it's wrong," said John Bennett, the environmental group's director of atmospheric studies.

And they have faith that the current state of industrialization will cause global warming in 100 years! What a bunch of loonies!

[sanchmo]

The report adds that Canada is "projected to have the largest decline in real gross national product (about 1 per cent in 2015) of all participating parties

Only because the US - the country that was supposed to be the largest decline - didn't sign.

[dinasour]

"Because less people are going into the hospital and dying, there'll be less economic activity in health care," said Mr. Bennett. "So our health-care costs will go down. If we need less nurses and doctors, would that be a bad thing?"


Are they out of there friggin' mind. How many people have gotten sick from carbon dioxide poisoning. This is just more subliminal propaganda to associate carbon dioxide with pollution.

C02 is not pollution, it is plant food.

[I still care]

Given Canada's close trading relationship with the United States and Canada's high projected emissions growth, the U.S. decision not to ratify the Kyoto protocol has important economic implications for Canada,"

Even when it is not our fault, it's still our fault. Notice how the blame here is that if Canada is stupid enough to sign a bad treaty, and we are smart enough not to, and Canada suffers, then it is our fault.

[Always Right]

He also said the study doesn't take into account the positive economic effects of a cleaner environment and how new technologies could soften the impact of Kyoto.

LOL....Kyoto has nothing to do with clean air as CO2 is not a pollutant. Global Warming would actually be benefitial for a fridgide climate like Canada. Of course Kyoto if implemented would not even make a measurable difference in tempreture.

[Number_Cruncher]

If Canada passes Kyoto, I will probably cancel my upcoming trip there. It is already affecting their economy and they aren't aware of it.