Donald Trump (yes, that Donald Trump) beat Justin Trudeau in the race to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
We can safely put Canada’s Climate Action Plan 2030 announcement in the same category as Justin Trudeau’s “Canada is back!” claim. In the period 2016 to 2019, JT’s “We’re Back!” Canada was outperformed on emissions by Donald “Climate Change is a Chinese Plot” Trump. US emissions went up 0.6% over that period and Canada’s went up 3.4%.
Why? Fortunately, Trump’s promise to bring back coal didn’t happen because the much cleaner natural gas was much cheaper. Who would invest in a coal plant anyway? So, out of sheer luck, US emissions stayed pretty much level from 2016 through 2019.
Trudeau though managed to expand the two programs which increase Canada’s carbon emissions, namely, mass immigration and oil sands production. These are the prime drivers of our emissions growth over the past 20 years and Trudeau is ramping up both of them regardless of their climate impact.
The Canada Climate Action Plan 2030 looks to be more of the same designed-to-fail-but-look-good-announcing-it efforts we’ve seen for the past 25 years.
It has all of the typical growth lobby manipulation fingerprints of dead-end initiatives and fuzzy metrics to look like action but end quietly. The Action Plan contains the following distract/delay/misinform classics:
- Carbon capture and storage.
- Hydrogen (Blue, Green, whatever)
- Biofuels
- Population growth is not a variable, it is pre-determined.
- Energy/GDP intensity
CCS, biofuels and hydrogen are being cited as the means to contribute 25% of total emissions cuts.
Continue reading at the source (Canadians for Sustainable Society)
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