Peter Foster: Canada dodges carbon suicide | FP Comment | Financial Post

No matter what the state of the science, however, anybody who supports unilateral action such as Bill C-311 could only be an economic masochist or a political numbskull. To reiterate: the prospect of international agreement to slash emissions has collapsed; any measures to hobble Canada unilaterally would thus be both economically suicidal and climatologically pointless.

Mr. Harper is to be congratulated. The measure of his success will be the volume of “dinosaur” or “fossil” awards given to Canada at Cancun. Canadian representatives should accept them with pride.

Reuters AlertNet - INTERVIEW-EU not ready to move on climate before US, China

LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The European Union will not harden its existing, carbon emissions pledge into a binding, U.N. decision unless the United States and China do likewise, an unlikely prospect, its chief negotiator said.

Wait a minute--don't they want the vast riches that allegedly await first-movers? And don't they want to save their own children from CO2-induced fiery dry floods?