Canadian Senate kills climate change bill

“Delegates from nearly 200 countries will meet in the resort town of Cancun”
That, in a nutshell, is why they do what they do.

Ken Boldt says:
November 17, 2010 at 12:26 pm
This is a complete slap in the face to democracy.

Good thing you are not a democracy then, isn’t it?

NDP Leader Jack Layton, whose party introduced the bill, says it’s “outrageous” an unelected Senate can kill what he says is important legislation.

I’ll make this completely clear: what is “outrageous” is layton’s faux surprise.
The Conservatives and their predecessors (Reform) have been pushing for YEARS to have a Triple-E senate: Equal, Elected, Effective. But layton seems to have some problem with that… unless it benefits him to pretend otherwise. Meh.
The only reason Prime Minister Harper is even going for the insanity is that 0bama threatened trade stuff if we didn’t go along with it. So we “go along” with it. Until 0bama is out on his butt in 2 years.

Good on ya Canada.
Here in Australia the Government is still talking tough about carbon tax. Prime Minister Gillard took the unusual step and wrote an ‘editorial’ article in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday in an attempt to raise support for her ideology.

Most of the 130 comments (now) are from people who didn’t buy what she is trying to flog, but the majority of the Herald readers probably agree with her.
For those who are not close to Australian politics, this is the same prime minister who clearly stated before the August election that there will be no carbon tax under her government.

Australians – be afraid. Be very afraid.

Well done, Canada (and beautifully timed!).
I’m another despairing Brit hoping to see some glimmer of sense in our parliament – which still wants to shut what’s left of our industry down while subsidising the desecration of our countryside with almost useless windmills and huge arrays of photovoltaic cells. Maybe – just maybe – they’ll start to see the folly of our unachievable target of a 80% cut in CO2 emissions as more countries bail out of similar suicidal agreements.

Well done Canada!! Please can you shove a bit of your common sense to us over the pond! Here in the UK our political elite say they want to cut 80% of our emissions. This will take us back to the 1800s !! No industries, no manufacturing, in fact, we must all stop breathing as this adds to our carbon dioxide!

“Killing Bill C-311 shows a fundamental lack of respect for the many Canadians who care deeply about climate change. They had a right to have this bill debated properly,”

Here, let me fix that:

“Killing Bill C-311 shows a fundamental respect for the many Canadians who care deeply about having an income. They had a right to have this bill killed”

It’s all about perspective, right?

@ur momisugly wws says: November 17, 2010 at 10:19 am:
I deeply regret to have to say, as others before me have pointed out already, that the lilly- livered, spineless so-called government (lower case intentional) of what was once Great Britain have already signed up to an Act of Parliament which requires this already poverty-stricken land to cut its ‘evil’ greenhouse gas emissions by 80% in just four short decades, at a cost of £18 BILLION per annum.
Oh, and to replace the power stations which the Central Committee of the EUSSR has deemed to ‘too dirty to live’ we have embarked on a spending spree purchasing windmills and solar cells, which have already been shown to be a failure of majestic proportions in climes far more suitable than the one under which we suffer. Our lights are soon to dim and fade into darkness, our houses will freeze and our population will decrease by just a little less than the amount demanded by the Greens.
The Socialist Utopia of the EUSSR continues to blight and, in many cases end our lives.
Would that the flash of brilliance which hit the Canadian Senate strike a goodly proportion of our feckless representatives!

Today is the day to remind what happened one year ago, which became CLIMATEGATE at:
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/open-letter/#comment-11917
“FOIA said
November 17, 2009 at 9:57 pm
We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents.
Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it.
This is a limited time offer, download now: XXXXXXXX
Sample:
0926010576.txt * Mann: working towards a common goal
1189722851.txt * Jones: “try and change the Received date!”
0924532891.txt * Mann vs. CRU
0847838200.txt * Briffa & Yamal 1996: “too much growth in recent years makes it difficult to derive a valid age/growth curve”
0926026654.txt * Jones: MBH dodgy ground
1225026120.txt * CRU’s truncated temperature curve
1059664704.txt * Mann: dirty laundry
1062189235.txt * Osborn: concerns with MBH uncertainty
0926947295.txt * IPCC scenarios not supposed to be realistic
0938018124.txt * Mann: “something else” causing discrepancies
0939154709.txt * Osborn: we usually stop the series in 1960
0933255789.txt * WWF report: beef up if possible
0998926751.txt * “Carefully constructed” model scenarios to get “distinguishable results”
0968705882.txt * CLA: “IPCC is not any more an assessment of published science but production of results”
1075403821.txt * Jones: Daly death “cheering news”
1029966978.txt * Briffa – last decades exceptional, or not?
1092167224.txt * Mann: “not necessarily wrong, but it makes a small difference” (factor 1.29)
1188557698.txt * Wigley: “Keenan has a valid point”
1118949061.txt * we’d like to do some experiments with different proxy combinations
1120593115.txt * I am reviewing a couple of papers on extremes, so that I can refer to them in the chapter for AR4”

GAZ says:
November 17, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Good on ya Canada.
Here in Australia the Government is still talking tough about carbon tax. Prime Minister Gillard took the unusual step and wrote an ‘editorial’ article in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday in an attempt to raise support for her ideology.
Most of the 130 comments (now) are from people who didn’t buy what she is trying to flog, but the majority of the Herald readers probably agree with her.
For those who are not close to Australian politics, this is the same prime minister who clearly stated before the August election that there will be no carbon tax under her government.
Don’t dispair Gaz, in my home province of British Columbia, our Premier instituted a new sales tax after stating outright during the election that he had no intention of doing so. His approval rating dropped through the floor, he has since resigned and his party will be lucky to win the next election. Its unfortunate, because of the two parties, he led the less insane one. But he learned that its not nice to lie to the voters. Maybe your prime minister will learn the same lesson.

CodeTech,
Could not have said it better myself. Kudos!

Conservative senators caught their Liberal and unelected counterparts off-guard on Tuesday by calling a snap vote on Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act introduced by Bruce Hyer.
That is sooooooo sweet.