Via CBC News, what a great irony for Climategate day:
Senate kills climate change bill
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The Canadian Press
Senators have voted down an opposition bill to tackle climate change with just days to go before another round of United Nations talks in Mexico.
NDP Leader Jack Layton, whose party introduced the bill, says it’s “outrageous” an unelected Senate can kill what he says is important legislation.
The bill — the Climate Change Accountability Act — has spent the last year or so bouncing between the full House of Commons and its environment committee. The vote was late Tuesday.
The legislation calls for greenhouse gases to be cut 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.
That’s more stringent than the Harper government’s goal of a 17 per cent emissions cut from 2005 levels by 2020, which is in line with the Obama administration’s targets in the United States.
Delegates from nearly 200 countries will meet in the resort town of Cancun later this month and try to broker an international climate-change deal.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/17/senate-climate-bill.html#ixzz15Z4F3lHv
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h/t to a bunch of people who read WUWT, so many I couldn’t choose who to credit with a hat tip, soo I’ll hat tip you all.
Most thinking people in Canada view the NDP as a coalition of losers, lefties and loonies. Every so often one part of Canada votes them into power – the lesson is quickly learned, and it doesn’t happen again.
Introducing idiotic climate legislation designed to shackle the economy into returning to the Stone Age is exactly the kind of policy loved by NDP activists.
Canada may have been saved, but many countries such as the UK have formally adopted a strategy of implementing brown outs and blackouts for most of the latter part of this decade. Still, in the UK we shall be green, grateful and freezing, enjoying our hyper-expensive, unreliable, renewable energy generating plants.
wws says:
November 17, 2010 at 10:19 am
Excellent! Now the list of usual suspects are going to have to figure out how to try to come up with a deal at Cancun knowing that the US, Canada, and France have already opted out. Oh, and China and India were out in any practical sense long ago.
So who’s going to volunteer to destroy their economies and give up all their jobs in order to benefit these countries which are thumbing their noses at the rest of them?
No one, that’s who.
And this is how the international climate movement dies. It was always an all or none type of proposition; now that it definitely is not “all”, the only rational option left is “none”.
“So who’s going to volunteer to destroy their economies and give up all their jobs in order to benefit these countries which are thumbing their noses at the rest of them?”
The answer is not None –
There is the US EPA with the full and unflinching support of the Obama administration. and
The United Kingdom Government who have passed a bill to reduce ‘carbon emissions’ by 80%.
So some turkeys _do_ vote for Thanksgiving.
Yes, we dodged that bullet but I take little comfort in that.
From a news report:- “A number of Liberals were not in the Senate when the vote occurred, and the bill died with a tally of 43-32. ”
Hopefully their absence was planned as part of some sort of deal; otherwise,
I can see a second try …a zombie if you like…. with the opposite result.
We need to be as vocal as posible everywhere we can to denounce this if it reappears.
John A says:
November 17, 2010 at 11:28 am
Meanwhile what do I do about my own Parliament which voted virtually unanimously to cut CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050?
Show them this.
Australia worries me (and I live in it). Carbon trading/tax/pricing would be economic suicide; the majority of our exports are of minerals and ores, not much ‘value add’ to those to stop buyers going elsewhere if the carbon taxes cause the prices to rise.
Only way out of this is to educate the masses and hope to stop the carbon trading train before it goes over the cliff.
“it’s “outrageous” an unelected Senate can kill what he says is important legislation”
It is, in my opinion, more outrageous that an unelected Senate can approve legislation.
Beauty, eh?
Senate told ’em hockey stick hose heads were to shove it, eh.
We are gonna save the planet by chugging more Brewskis, eh, like that’s less CO2, hosers.
You should hear the bleeding heart liberals whine over here. They were the ones who blocked senate reform, now they are all mad that the senate did this. And it was their senators that forced the vote. Too funny….
I live in British Columbia a province of Canada and we just had our provincial premier who is interm right now as he has been kicked out, meet with California’s Governator Schwarzengger both of them idiotic about climate disruption. Sooo not all good news yet as we have a carbon tax.
Suzuki is from B.C. and I think the ground shook from his tantrum when he heard the news.
Fishmarket says:
November 17, 2010 at 12:55 pm
“Climate change pah!
No one tell us what to do – and all those lily livered species that are going extinct – we need to kick their ass!!”
uhhhhh, what does CO2 have to do with extinctions? And exactly who would tell humans what to do? except maybe other humans who like to control others and tell them what to do?
“KevinC says:
November 17, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Stephen Harper has been well ahead of this issue for years. ”
“CodeTech says:
November 17, 2010 at 1:14 pm
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.”
The above is all true, but since the midterm elections this month, Obama has conceded that cap and trade is dead. Prime Minister Harper has said we will do what the U.S. does. So if the U.S. does nothing, Canada would not suffer trade barriers if it also did nothing. But what do you expect to happen in two years? If Obama is out and the Republicans are in, then there is no way anything will happen since the Republicans correctly think like Prime Minister Harper on this issue.
Once this becomes clearer, as the world fails to warm on schedule, anti-socialists could hammer this message, in effect using AGW as a wedge issue.
Excellent news for Canada!
Not only the NDP was trying to cuddle the green vote but now the Liberals who never did a thing since Kyoto managed helping killing this green garbage.
In Canada now the green zealots of the Suzuki Foundation are infiltrated in Provincial and Municipal governments. They are pushing green agenda through the backdoor having never been elected as greeen , only on others’ lists.
No doubt that “deepclimate” will feel it deep tonight!!! LOL
Here is an epic David Suzuki rant just after Climategate hit the proverbial fan.
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/12/17/david-suzuki-rants-epic-on-global-warming-and-copenhagen.
If there is any actual warming up here in the great white north it’ll be from Suzuki popping a gasket or two.
Tea Party?
Ralph Hall, Congressman from Rockwall Texas.
Knows some of the facts on the fake greenhouse gas emissions and global warming fraud. He is an ok guy, former WWII carrier pilot, bud of Sam Johnson.
Help him all you can.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45279.html
The msm etal will be after him, pass he or his offices all the real info possible.
apachewhoknows
“Most thinking people in Canada view the NDP as a coalition of losers, lefties and loonies.”
Here in the Great White North, Kentucky Fried Chicken has introduced a new
“NDP Chicken Basket”
It is all Left Wings & A**holes.
Gee, the bill was introduction by the NDP and Taliban Jack, the king of the redistributionists.
Quelle surprise.
Conan will save the planet almost singlehandedly.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Launches R20 Climate Change Nonprofit Coalition With Local Governments Around The World
“DAVIS, Calif. — Nearly two dozen local government leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas have started their own coalition to harness private investment in their fight against global warming.
The nonprofit organization, called R20, was launched Tuesday at the conclusion of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s third and final climate summit in California.
Schwarzenegger says local governments are taking action because “we can’t afford to wait for national and international movement.”
Countries involved in United Nations climate talks continue to disagree on how much they must reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which scientists say is critical to address rising global temperatures.
The new regional coalition is intended to fund projects designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Conan the Barbarian – What is best in life?
It would appear that everyone except the current federal administration and the electorate of State of California are starting to “get it”.
and more good news for the anniversary:
18 Nov: New Zealand Herald: Adam Bennett: Farmers may win ETS reprieve
New Zealand farmers are unlikely to be brought into the emissions trading scheme in 2015 unless scientific advances are made in reducing animal emissions and our trading partners make giant strides in putting a price on carbon, the Government says…
Another big factor in the Government’s decision over agriculture was whether a “technological breakthrough that we really need” could be found enabling farmers to reduce animal emissions.
Smith said the third important consideration was the economy.
“When the economy is just recovering as it is at the moment, we are hesitant of adding additional costs.”
Smith’s comments were welcomed as “fantastic” by Act deputy leader John Boscawen. “[Agriculture] shouldn’t have been there in the first place. We’re the only country in the world to have agriculture in an ETS and the sooner the Government announces it is taking it out the better.”
Green Party co-leader Russel Norman said New Zealand risked getting left behind if it delayed agriculture’s entry into the scheme.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10688316
This is actually quite unusual. Typically the Senate cannot kill a bill. It can only delay. Fingers crossed this hold.
This is too rich, the Liberals would have nothing to do with Senate reform in Canada, now the Senate kills a ridiculous piece of legislation trying to control climate. Liberals if you really have a problem with the Senate why didn’t you reform this upper house during the many decades you where in power (triple E maybe)?
It will be hilarious watching the climate religious fanatic David Suzuki arrest and throw the Senate in jail.
It will hold. Good going Harper! For those not familiar with Canadian politics this (killing a bill in the Senate) is actually a very skilled piece of work on the part of the government.
I still think that this site should stick to meteorogical data and graphs rather than politics etc..In the end that’s what will count. Ie: what I am saying we are falling for the AGW crowd if we don’t