CTVNews.ca Staff
Date: Sun. Nov. 27 2011 10:08 PM ET
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.
h/t to WUWT reader Howard B
Related:
via Slashdot – “Alberta’s $60 million carbon-cutting program is failing, according to the latest report from the Canadian province’s auditor-general, Merwan Saher. A news article in Nature adds: ‘the province, despite earlier warnings, has not improved its regulatory structure — and calls the emissions estimates and the offsets themselves into question.'”
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With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
Canada had to get out before 2012. I am glad to see we have done so.
Europe’s $287bn carbon ‘waste’:
UBS report by: Sid Maher From: The Australian November 23, 2011
SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union’s emissions trading scheme has cost the continent’s consumers $287 billion for “almost zero impact” on cutting carbon emissions, and has warned that the EU’s carbon pricing market is on the verge of a crash next year.
In a damning report to clients, UBS Investment Research said that had the 210bn the European ETS had cost consumers been used in a targeted approach to replace the EU’s dirtiest power plants, emissions could have been reduced by 43 per cent “instead of almost zero impact on the back of emissions trading”.
Great news.
Alberta is spending way too much on the folly of CCS and continuing to allow no end of wind projects. The Alberta and federal governments are still plagued with liberal, warmists at high levels of the bureaucracies–and these scoundrels direct ignorant politicians. But this is good news … for a change. I hope this is not a false alarm.
In any case, the liberal left newspapers will try to make a big deal about his. Let us hope that Peter and Stephen stand firm.
Clive
Excellent. I feel even prouder to be a Canadian today!!
I was happy to see this headline, but saddened by the way CTV reports this.
Airing Elizabeth (there are only 1 or 2 things wrong with the IPCC reports, & we must ban WiFi) Mays’ reaction, calling it sabotage, amongst other nonsense.
Oh yeah baby! Gotta ask Elisabeth May how it feels to be an MP tomorrow.
I feel even worse for the folks in Oz now.
Now they can use their oil sands to become the next Saudi Arabia and benefit from a warmer world in the process. It makes perfect sense (for them).
Anthony, you’re truly a mensch. Get some sleep. We need you.
Canada, Japan, and Russia are refusing to even discuss the next round.
Great news and long overdue.
The global warming scammers have had their day.
Congrats to Tom Harris and the ICSC.
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/
Now that’s leadership.
lol, a great Christmas present for the loons in Durban.
Here’s a novel idea: Replace EVERY coal power plant right now with nuclear. That would bring electricity production to 0 carbon. That gives another 30 to 40 years for wind and solar and other renewables to catch up in efficiency but in the meantime eliminates CO2 generated by electricity production of CO2 is really the issue. Use a system like France where your spent fuel is reprocessed and recycled ON THE FACILITY. No moving of any nuclear fuel around after the initial fuel load, the only thing you bring in after that is natural uranium.
See “Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste” Scientific American December 2005 available at a Google near you.
If CO2 is such a threat to our survival, you have the means at hand right now to drastically cut the production of it in Australia. But my guess is that it isn’t really *about* CO2 at all.
It’s good news but even in the conservative government there are plenty of alarmist bureaucrats drooling about how much tax money they can waste on “Global Warming” projects. The fight is far from over.
YES! Well done, my northern friends, congratulations. Timing of the leak is perfect. Heck, it might even happen.
w.
Don’t start celebrating yet they haven’t let loose of the scam yet
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/27/durban-kent-cp.html?cmp=rss
What is interesting about this CBC news release comments are not allowed. Usually comments are allowed on news releases but the CBC in very biased towards Mann caused global warming .
There are comments allowed in the following release and it is interesting to notice more comments against Mann caused climate change are increasing over time but the CBC only rarely lets a skeptic news release through, and only with a caveat. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/11/27/durban-climate-change.html?cmp=rss
I have also read, Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada is donating millions to fight climate change in developing counties but he is using the climate change moniker with the aid that these countries would get anyhow so walks the vote gettin fence. If he wasen’t a politician I think the whole Mann caused climate change would disappear on the federal level. He is not stupid, Canada and Sweden are about the most stable countries in this so called world wide economic crisis along with a recovering Iceland which told the banks where to stick it.
I thought that was imminent. There are other countries too, including the USA, India, S.Korea and others. I doubt if UK will sign up. The European parliament won’t agree to increase carbon emissions, so what hope is there. Yes feel sorry for Australia caught with its breeches down.
But if we can’t remove this carbon tax by July, just remember it will take years to implement an international carbon trading scheme, by then and hopefully, cross my fingers, pray to God, and
my legs, the Coalition will repeal the carbon tax regulation,.
Just wanted to talk science for a minute..
Have had enough politics for the holidays.
I would have thought this would be already talked about, but here goes.
Here is a video from NHK WORLD :
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/fixed/asx/30_13_512k.asx
Here is the news story from NHK WORLD:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/30_13.html
CO2 density map created using satellite data
A Japanese research group has created a world map which shows estimated carbon dioxide emissions in each region using for the first time data acquired by a satellite.
The group at the National Institute for Environmental Studies estimated regional CO2 emissions by combining data from Japan’s Global Gases Observing Satellite, Ibuki, and ground observation data collected for a year from June 2009.
Of 64 regions on the map, those where CO2 emissions exceeded CO2 absorption are shown in red and regions where emissions were less than absorption are marked in green.
The researchers found that CO2 absorption in high latitude regions in the northern hemisphere, including Russia’s Siberia, was higher than earlier estimated. They add that greater CO2 emissions were observed in regions near the equator.
The researchers say satellite data allowed them to reduce errors in estimated emissions. Ground data are collected at 139 locations which are distributed unevenly throughout the world.
The head of the research institute, Yasuhiro Sasano, says he hopes the map will help display how much each region needs to reduce its CO2 emissions in the future.
Sunday, October 30, 2011 14:03 +0900 (JST)
If I understand this correctly, the Third World countries emit the highest amounts of Co2 or unable to absorb Co2 and the Industrialized World better absorbs or produces lesser Co2 than previously thought.
This should produce a bunch of head jerking.
You lucky lucky Bastards
I think this Aussie might need to emigrate if this Loony left Govt down here is not shown the door soon.
Or how about the French getting in on the subject of the Co2 absorption from JAXA:
http://aerospace.firetrench.com/2011/11/on-estimating-global-monthly-carbon-dioxide-fluxes-by-region-utilizing-the-observational-data-obtained-by-ibuki/
Firetrench Aerospace & Defence
i) With the addition of the GOSAT observational data to the ground-based
monitoring data, significant uncertainty reduction was achieved in the
monthly regional CO2 flux estimates. It is expected that continuous CO2
monitoring by GOSAT and further refinement of the data processing
methods will lead to effective monitoring of variations in monthly
regional CO2 fluxes.
ii) In particular, uncertainties of CO2 fluxes estimated for South America,
Africa, the Near and Middle East, and Asia have been reduced by as much
as about 50% (annual average) with the addition of the GOSAT data to the
ground-based monitoring data.
iii) The seasonal trends of summertime CO2 uptake associated with plant
photosynthesis and wintertime CO2 emission in high latitudinal regions of
the northern hemisphere are broadly consistent with past findings. It is
expected that the response of terrestrial biosphere to future climate
change, in terms of changes in flux amounts, may be detected in its early
stage with continuing observation by GOSAT and further refinements in the
data processing methods.
iv) The global annual flux for the period of June 2009 to May 2010 was
evaluated at around 4 gigatons of carbon per year, which is almost
equivalent to the values calculated from the growth rates of CO2
concentrations in the atmosphere for this period. The validity of this
annual flux and the contributions of anthropogenic emissions or fluxes of
natural origin will be the subject of further investigations.
v) Monthly fluxes calculated from the GOSAT data and the ground-based
monitoring data in some regions show differences to those calculated from
only the ground-based monitoring data. It is expected that continuous
monitoring by GOSAT and further research undertakings will yield further
understanding of the CO2 flux behavior.
And lastly, I found the PDF for GOSAT that was sent for peer-review to
Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere
On Estimating Global Monthly Carbon Dioxide Fluxes by Region,
utilizing the observational data obtained by
the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite “IBUKI” (GOSAT)
http://www.gosat.nies.go.jp/eng/related/download/GOSAT_L4_Release_en.pdf
This almost restores my faith in JAXA, but we shall see.
If this story didn’t reach us by usual channels, then someone doesn’t want it to be
circulated.
GET TO CIRCULATING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes Virginia…….. there is a Santa Clause and he gave me what I asked for, for Christmas.
Makes the Australian Prime Minister look even more stupid! Nice one Canucks!
Understand this,
This article has more potential to upset the talks at Durban than the 5000+ emails recently released.
SOLA, 2011, Vol. 7, 161−164, doi:10.2151/sola.2011-041 161
On the Benefit of GOSAT Observations to the Estimation of Regional CO2
Fluxes
H. Takagi, T. Saeki, T. Oda, M. Saito, V. Valsal, D. Belikov, R. Saito, Y. Yoshida
, I. Morino, O. Uchino, R. J. Andres, T. Yokota, and S. Maksyutov
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sola/7/0/161/_pdf