globeandmail.com: Suzuki decries NDP over plan to axe carbon tax

VANCOUVER -- Canada's most prominent environmentalist is calling on British Columbia New Democrats to rewrite their election platform to drop their plan to axe the carbon tax introduced by the rival Liberals, suggesting an NDP victory could render politically "toxic" a needed environmental reform.

"If [Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell] goes down because of axe the tax, the repercussions are the carbon tax will be toxic for future politicians," David Suzuki said yesterday.

"No politician will raise it. That's why environmentalists are so upset."

Obama is poison to Al Gore - Lawrence Solomon

Why has Al Gore’s position lost so much credibility with the American public? While the Rasmussen poll does not explore this question, two Obama factors could be at play.

First, public hostility toward George Bush and the Republicans likely expressed itself in part as hostility toward global warming scepticism, with which Bush and the Republicans were identified. As soon as the Republicans lost power, many in the public lost their fervour in opposing climate change scepticism.

Second, the recession, combined with proposals from the new Obama administration to start taxing carbon in one form or another, gave the public new reason to question whether carbon dioxide really is the demon that climate change doomsayers claim. Upon investigation, the public would have found little to support the doomsayer case.