But they will keep plugging it.
I have seen this “counter” (displayed at right) on a few Liberal websites and need to make a clarification so that Conservatives who read my site can help educate others.
The counter has presented quite an erroneous view of both the Conservative Clean Air act and the Kyoto Protocol in a fashion I usually only credit the MSM with.
It states that there are 6000 and some odd number of days until the Conservatives set air quality targets. This implies the recent mercury ban does nothing to improve air quality. It also implies the restriction of the 200 or so hazardous substances does not improve air quality. This shows us how little Liberals know about what clean air actually is. Either that or they simply can’t count.
The number of days is a reference to the Tory green house gas targets which go out to 2050. What really makes the Liberals look stupid for posting this is that the Kyoto protocol aims to reduce green house gases and has nothing to do with air “quality”. The whole Kyoto concept is to reduce green house gases in an effort to prevent global warming.
Since warm air and cold air are both equally desireable depending on where you are and what season it is, and since neither is of “poor quality”, the statement just goes to show us that Liberals who believe Kyoto and green house gas reduction is about CLEAN air simply do not understand what Kyoto is about.
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The counter further erroneously confuses setting of targets (which happened this past fall, but has been barred from passing the House of Commons by the opposition parties) from the achieving of targets.
Not that Liberals could ever tell the difference, never having had any plan whatsoever to achieve Kyoto targets.
Some Kyotomaniacs point out that China is expected to become the world’s largest emitter of CO2 by 2009, while others will suggest that some countries have achieved Kyoto credits by increasing pollution and ozone-destroying emissions – because they are credited for destruction of a pollutive byproduct of that production process (reference pending). Kyoto has utterly failed to impel long-term investments in carbon emissions reductions (since payback does not occur before 2012).
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This whole ‘Number 1″ issue, seems to fade away when all media, all parties(political, and the public focuses on the true fact that Canada produces merely 2% of (human made) greenhouse gases. Next election all about 2%. Incredible.
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%&$* me! you’re really stupid!
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There’s jeff buggeater, a documented idiot.
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He documents it himself on his own blog
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Its also kinda stupid because Stephane Dion also has 2050 as the target date for his environmental plan.
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Cool Blue (#6) very nice point!!!
I just wish Jeff wouldn’t swear so I wouldn’t have to go in and edit his text.
I think he does himself more harm than good everytime he lets his fingers stroll over the keyboard.
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So, by my calculations, 365 x 13 years = 4745 days that the Liberals did nothing. So, given that the Conservatives haven’t even been in power for a year, or 365 days, we are 12 years ahead of the Liberal record. Case closed!