Canada 'absolute worst country at the talks'

[HeresyLives]

We got the 'fossil of the year' award, with that citation.

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2009/12/18/climate-canada-award.html

I'm so proud. :eyes:

[glarius]

1. Just watch the Harperites come home from Copenhagen and brag

about the great contribution they made to the talks. This is what they always do and they seem to get away with it! DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!

[HeresyLives]

2. Harder to do this time,

with all the bad news about us from Copenhagen.

[glarius]

3. That's true but I'm sure they will still spin their lies

and make it look as if they were working behind the scenes doing good...or something...
Even Brian Mulroney didn't have the hutzpah (spelling?) that Harper and his gang have.

[HeresyLives]

4. You're right, the media is trying to give Harper credit.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other world leaders — including those from the U.S., China, India, Brazil and South Africa — are leaving Copenhagen with a compromise climate deal and a vow to work out the details.

The agreement offers money to developing nations to help them fight global warming provided they agree to open their books to international scrutiny.

Harper called it a "comprehensive and realistic" agreement, while U.S. President Barack Obama hailed it as a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough."

However, the agreement is not binding and does not set new greenhouse-gas reduction targets. Instead, countries are to set their own emission-reduction commitments, which would not be legally binding.

Those commitments will be the subject of further negotiation, with the aim of a final deal at next year's summit in Mexico. It's a compromise following 12 days of divisive talks that saw hopes dwindle as the summit's close drew near.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/12/18/copenhagen-last-day.html

[HeresyLives]

5. This one starts out boosting him.

But finds it has to end on a limp note.

-snip-

Mr. Harper insisted that he and the Canadian delegation played a constructive role in the talks, despite his absence from key negotiating sessions among leading G20 countries.

He said Canada's interests were being looked after by “strategic allies” and that each country could not demand to be at every meeting in a conference of 192 nations.

Critics of the government say Canada's effectiveness as a negotiator was undermined by its poor record of compliance with commitments under the Kyoto Protocol and by its unambitious emissions targets.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/canadas-strategy-promise-now-implement-later/article1406232/

[daleo]

6. Harper simply doesn't believe in Global warming science

Partly it's a cognitive dissonance thing - he represents oil company interests, so he simply cannot take global warming as a serious threat and still maintain some sort of mental equilibrium. I think there may also be some religious aspect to his disdain for the science. Add in his training in economics, which mostly ignores the fundamentals of the earth and life sciences, and you have the quintessential denialist.