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Jack has an interesting poll going on at Jack’s Newswatch - Should Al Gore be sued by companies he is harming with his crusade?

This ties in with his post based on an article from Spiegel Online Killing Jobs to Save the Climate , which explains how the German carbon trading market is causing many industries to threaten to pack up and leave. And costs are only going to go up.

As one of Jack’s readers (L.G.) remarked, it’s like a spigot that once installed, can be opened up at a faster and faster rate. The analogy is quite worth reading.

Anyway, please read Jack’s post and related links and then check out his poll.

Oh yeah, and about those melting ice caps, Mr. Gore…

One other interesting tidbit here - What’s the point of a cure if the patient may not be sick? by Australia’s William Kininmonth:

…It is disingenuous to claim that carbon dioxide, an essential component of plant photosynthesis and necessary for life, is a pollutant….

…The public response seems to be almost a death wish; a lemming-like rush to reduce national carbon dioxide emissions at the expense of industries prospering on the basis of our national comparative advantage through fossil fuel resources…

That guy talks my language!

Stephane Dion seems to be basing his economic policy on the so-called irrefutable science of man-made climate change. While I totally agree with his concerns about pollution and the inherent need to clean up the environment for the health and safety of Canadians, I have a difficult time buying this line:

…Finally, we need to play a bigger role in the international efforts to solve the climate-change crisis. We need to participate in the setting of international goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and international rules to put a price on the cost of inaction. We cannot ignore the science of climate change simply because we don’t like what it forecasts . We need to work together to bring together the environment, the economy and social justice so we can lead the way toward a sustainable future…

Well, there are many scientific forecasts which seem to challenge Monsieur Dion’s unwavering belief system on climate change. Just today we have relevant editorials by Lorrie Goldstein and David Warren , and a piece here questioning NASA’s model.

So the fact is that the science is not clear. There are still many questions and obviously many mitigating factors that can affect trends and changes in the temperature of the earth. And as Fred points out, very little MSM coverage is given to events that appear to contradict the prevalent climate- change theories. One would almost suspect that it is a conspiracy of some kind. But hopefully the light of healthy skepticism will start to peek through the cracks of the cover-up.

So if Stephane Dion wants to follow Australia’s example and try to take advantage of the gullible, that’s his choice.

But don’t pretend that it is such a noble cause, when in fact it’s just an excuse for another burgeoning, money-sucking bureaucracy that will have the net effect of driving up the costs of goods that Canadians wish to purchase - including gas, and every commodity that relies on gas for transportation.

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Update: CBC’s At Issue addressed the issue of gas prices and politics this week.

Also worth watching is Rex Murphy’s take on ‘The End of the Ethanol Dream’ .

I can’t believe I just linked to CBC twice in one post!

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