B.C. VIEWS: Climate change fever cools off

So now it seems clear that the U.S. federal government is leading us nowhere. Still B.C. and California say they are going to soldier on with their tag-along partners.

I put this idea to B.C. Energy Minister Bill Bennett, who also allows that he is skeptical about human-caused climate change. How can a gas plant or cement plant in B.C. take on the burden of an emission cap and paying for greenhouse gas credits when the same plant in Alberta doesn’t have to?

“I can only tell you what the minister of energy thinks, and I think that if going to cap-and-trade under those circumstances was going to create some obvious uncompetitiveness between Alberta and B.C. or between B.C. and Ontario or whoever, I don’t think we should do it,” Bennett said.

Africa [dreams of spending climate swindle loot]

The meeting was marked by well equipped police and military personnel on one side, and posters, banners, and t-shirts depicting Libya’s leader, Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, on the other side.
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“Global average temperatures limited to below two degree Celsius [still] means catastrophic harm to Africa, which could warm by around 1.5 times this global average,” the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), a civil society coalition on climate change, urged in a letter to Meles before the meeting in Kampala.
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The start-up funding addresses urgent adaptation and mitigation tasks; 10 billion dollars is needed per year to support its establishment, according to the proposal. In the long-term, the proposal requires annual funding of 50 billion dollars by 2015, which is expected to double in 10 years’ time.