Carbon tax insanity

In his Toronto Sun column today, Lorrie Goldstein says the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy is off its collective rocker recommending Canada unilaterally impose carbon taxes and/or set up a ‘cap and trade’ emissions trading scheme:

... [NRTEE] recommended Canadian taxpayers should fall on their swords for the sake of winning a Pyrrhic victory over global warming.

the NRTEE is telling us to do two contradictory things: Act in concert with the rest of the world to combat global warming and, regardless of what the world does, act unilaterally now.

the NRTEE is effectively recommending Canadians pay significantly more for carbon (meaning for virtually everything) for decades to come, at the risk of severely damaging our economy ... even if countries responsible for up to 10 times our emissions do nothing.

That's not a policy. It's insanity.

The Harper government requested this report. It should thank the NRTEE -- and shelve it.

Couldn’t agree more. Nor, I suspect, could Terence Corcoran.

Now I wish BC’s government would get a clue and stop trying to be Arnold Schwarzenegger’s best pal. Though it’s equally likely that the weasely Gordon Campbell and Co are simply intending to capitalize on pliable, green, loony left coast environmentalism to squeeze more cash from our wallets.

H/t to Joanne here and here.

Update: Terence Corcoran’s latest (Jan 11) column on this.

Climate change - sanity in a sea of stupidity

"Back in the real world, if what many scientists say is true, climate change will not be a media-generated, one-year or one-election wonder. It will be a centuries-long struggle..." - Lorrie Goldstein

Lorrie Goldstein, in today's Toronto Sun, lends some much needed rationality to the media and environmentalist driven climate hysteria:

This is serious, long-term stuff. It's not about whether Dion names his dog "Kyoto" or Baird wears a green tie.
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...I doubt the Liberals, Tories or anyone else in Ottawa believe a word of their own rhetoric on global warming these days. If they did, they'd be calling for a national unity government to address what could be an unprecedented crisis, not taking cheap shots at each other and insulting our intelligence.

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