Canada has a hard, cold heart at times

Many, many of we Canadians will not support a reduction of carbon emissions, a lowering of material consumption, and an agreement to support a global austerity program or a move to be good Boy Scouts - until we’re all 95 years old and staring a concrete example of our impact on global warming square in the face from the comfort of our expansive front porches.

Why?

For the nth year in a row we’ve been told we’re responsible for only 2 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions per annum.

“It’s not our fault, eh, that big icebergs are breaking off the Russ, or Boss, or Bus Ice Shelf in Antyartical, eh?!”

(Geez, we’re maroons at times. Pssst. What’s an annum?)

As well, though ‘this decade will probably rank as the warmest since records were first kept in 1850 - and this year could be one of the five warmest years ever recorded by scientists,’ some Canadians will cold-heartedly hold to the view that a new ice age is on its way, global warming is reversing and climate change is a big hoax because, while the earth (on average) was warming, Canada experienced a cooler year than usual on the prairies.


We can’t figure out the concept of warmer average global temperatures.

Warmer.

On average.

Globally.

Psst. I think it’s all Monte’s fault.

Or Sarah Palin’s.

One or the other or both.

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More to follow.

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