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Grits goofy on climate change | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Winnipeg Sun

Ken Dryden is one of the smarter Liberal MPs in Parliament, which is why his whimsical musings on climate change in the National Post last week were so disappointing.

The column, "A Forever Issue," was a toxic mixture of partisan half-truths, naivety and bafflegab, typical of the Liberal canon on climate change.

It included over-the-top attacks on Prime Minister Stephen Harper, given the dismal Liberal record on the issue, over-the-top praise of U.S. President Barack Obama and irresponsibly urged Canada to follow Europe's disastrous example.

A major culprit is the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, a highly speculative cap-and-trade market (just what the world needs now, eh?) built on the easily corruptible mechanism of buying "carbon credits" (paying someone else, so you can emit carbon).
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The major "environmental" achievement of this to date has been to make the world safer for hedge funds.

Alarmingly, Harper, Obama and Dryden's Liberals all support cap-and-trade.

The irony, since GHG emissions drop in a recession, is that every time Dryden's leader, Michael Ignatieff, demands Harper must instantly "fix" our economy, he's effectively urging him to increase Canada's GHG emissions, largely due to the Liberals' utter failure to create their magical "green" economy during their 12-year reign.

Oops.