TORONTO - Al Gore condemned Canada's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, saying it was a fraud "designed to mislead the Canadian people."Nobody consulted me, the Czar of Greenhouse Gas Emissions! There is no provision for buying my Carbon Credits!
Under the initiative announced Thursday, Canada would reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020. But the government acknowledged it would not meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which requires 35 industrialized countries to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The country's emissions are now 30 percent above 1990 levels.
LOL! 30% ABOVE 1990 levels! Does any intelligent person not now realize this was complete bull$hit from the beginning? so much for "Feel Good" agreements.
The Conservative government's strategy focuses both on reducing emissions of gases blamed for global warming and improving air quality. But the plan failed to spell out what many of its regulations will look like.
We're gonna reduce them emissions, we're not sure how but, by gum, we're gonna do it!
"In my opinion, it is a complete and total fraud," Gore said Saturday. "It is designed to mislead the Canadian people."
Howlin' Al knows all about misleading the people. He's a master at it.
Gore said he was surprised that the plan focused on reducing the intensity of emissions rather than tough, overall curbs.
Turn out those lights! Stop heating your homes! Buy my Carbon Credits! I can't support my high-energy lifestyle unless more of you Morons buy them!
He said "intensity reduction" - which allows industries to increase their greenhouse gas outputs as they raise production - was a poll-tested phrase developed by think tanks financed by Exxon Mobil and other large polluters.
Gore says therfore it is Truth! The Goracle has spoken!
Canadian Environment Minister John Baird rejected Gore's criticisms. "The fact is our plan is vastly tougher than any measures introduced by the administration of which the former vice president was a member," Baird said in a statement.
Neener-neener!
Baird also invited Gore to discuss climate change and the Conservatives' environmental policies with him.
Gore, who was in Toronto to present his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," at a consumer environmental show, acknowledged that as an American, he had "no right to interfere" in Canadian decision.
Then keep yer yap shut, Bugwit!
| "As my good friend Maurice Strong was telling me just the other day..." |
If the rest of the World looks to Canada for moral leadership the rest of the World is Morally Bankrupt.
Canadian opposition Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said Sunday that Gore was right. "Mr. Baird is embarrassing Canada around the world," Dion said. "The world expects Canada will do its share - more than that, that Canada will be a leader and we are failing the world. We are failing Canadians."
I think it's the other way around, Darlin'. Socialism will not supply your people with everything they need. Your brain and a bucket of hair seem to have a lot in common.