Canadian justice

Hunter at Climbing Out of the Dark hits a nerve with her thoughts on Canadian justice and related Liberal cynicism, hypocrisy and opportunism.

Cap and Trade explained

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Pope Benedict anti-capitalist?

Pope Benedict will soon release a new pronoucement "In Charity In Truth" in which he's expected to condemn capitalist greed and suggest the need to "rethink the whole system".

Hunter at Climbing Out of the Dark says "Dear Pope, Butt Out". I couldn't agree more and say so in the comments.

Canada's private health care provider (case number 1,359,308)

A typical scenario in the Canadian medical system - sick babies being shipped to the USA for treatment.

What are we gonna do when Obama's finished wrecking our best source of private care?

[h/t BCF]

Climate debate - "the tide is shifting"

Kimberly Strassel in the WSJ:

.... As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.

.... Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. ... The
backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia,
Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.

... The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers.

.... The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans.

... Credit for Australia's own era of renewed enlightenment goes to Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist. Earlier this year he published "Heaven and Earth," a damning critique of the "evidence" underpinning man-made global warming. The book is already in its fifth printing.

And check out the many, many great comments on Strasser's article.

Note that Canada’s not listed among the trend-setters. It’s too busy climbing on board Obama's cap-and-trade disaster-in-the-making.

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The U.N. wants your thoughts on climate

A United Nations Climate Change Conference is slated for Copenhagen next December.

Conference organizers have set up a global collector for peoples' thoughts. So far most are from Gaia cultists, socialists, vegetarians and other assorted true believers. Al Gore has submitted his 'thought'. Only one, from Bjorn Lomborg, is anywhere near representative of another side of the issue.

Have your say.

Carbon hysteria will be the death of us

Last year BC Premier Gordon Campbell instituted North America's first carbon tax. Now the negative effects of that are beginning to be felt in healthcare:

The Lower Mainland's health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.'s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints.

... Fraser Health officials are grappling with a budget shortfall of more than $100 million and potential cuts to patient services, while low on their list, have not been ruled out.

I fully endorse Kate's message to Gordo and the rest of the "carbon cultists":

A personal message for our carbon cultist friends out there - when the costs of your government mandated climate scams begin to extend the government mandated wait lists for diagnosis and treatment, my only consolation will come from knowing that some [of] the family members who cease CO2 emission prematurely will be yours.

My local paper had a front page story today about Victoria health budget shortfalls but didn't mention the impact of carbon taxes and offsets.