Canadian IPCC member Kirsty Duncan pushes green jobs and blames CO2 for 1998 ice storm

Rio +20 talks: will Canada abandon path to sustainable development? | iPolitics

In 2009, the government missed a real opportunity for a triple win, a renewable stimulus with positive impacts on the economy, jobs and the atmosphere. While the government invested $3 billion in green stimulus spending, Germany invested $14 billion, the United States, $112 billion, and China, $221 billion, in green infrastructure, and in the process, created thousands of new ‘green’ jobs...Canada has already had its climate change wake-up calls: for example, the 1998 ice storm, which cost $5.4 billion, and the 1996 Saguenay flood, which cost $1.7 billion.