Why Canada should not ratify Kyoto – A website that is old but still effective.

Mr. Chretien may want a grand last gesture but ratifying Kyoto will not give him the legacy he is looking for. He should wait until after the next Kyoto meeting in November, where it will be decided if the other Kyoto signatory countries will accept Canada’s clean-energy concept, before he makes any decision about ratification. To ratify before knowing this would be foolish and costly. The government of Alberta and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce have predicted a $40 billion cost to meet our obligations under Kyoto. This money could be put to better use. Allan Rock, in April, stated he believed that implementing it would lower our standard of living.

We finally have a figure, as reported here, of a cost for an average household if the Kyoto scam is imposed on Canadians:

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation Tuesday released a report saying that Kyoto-related costs will reduce annual net household income by $2,700 a year by 2010.

The professor says Kyoto should be rejected.

Prof. McKitrick, of the University’s economics department who specializes in environmental economics, has written previously on the topic of Kyoto.

In light of the fact that Kyoto yields no economic or environmental benefits this is obviously a bad deal for Canadian households and should be rejected,” Prof. McKitrick writes in his study.

Think your hydro bill is high?

It also says changing consumption patterns could require natural gas price hikes of 90 per cent and gasoline price hikes as high as 50 per cent and the government’s assumptions of a “smoothly-functioning international emissions credit market are flawed.”

Slowly, surely, the Kyoto myth is falling apart, right before the Federal Government’s eyes.  Now the scientists are coming together to condemn it:

A group of Canadian and international climate science and energy specialists urged the federal government on Wednesday in Ottawa to delay ratifying the accord until further consultation is undertaken with the scientific and energy community.

“The Kyoto Accord will, without a doubt, not achieve the goals established by the federal government,” said Dr. Tim Patterson, professor of Earth Sciences (Paleoclimatology) at Carleton University in Ottawa.

It’s not just a few scientists that are against it:

“There are literally thousands of experts in the field who are strongly opposed to Kyoto but have not been consulted,” Mr. Patterson said. “The federal government has the opportunity to be responsible and extend the Kyoto debate to allow for further consultations from all interested individuals.”

When will the government give up?

The Post has a great nation by nation summary of why Canadians are essentially idiots for backing such a nonsensical treaty.  The PM sure is desperate for a legacy.

Even if the whole world signed on to Kyoto, there would be many valid arguments against its implementation. But at least it might be said that a falling tide lowers all boats—and that Canada would be in no worse position than the Western nations with whom it competes for trade. But the truth is much worse: If it ratifies Kyoto, Parliament will be agreeing that Canada should sign on as the sole victim of a treaty that everyone knows will limit economic growth, and from which everyone else has been sensible enough to secure their escape route. Canada as fall guy and international chump: That’s some legacy, Prime Minister—some legacy.

It’s sad to see in this article that the Kyoto debate has degenerated, led exclusively by the left, into mudslinging:

Instead, Mr. Berton et al made common cause with fellow Sierra campaigner and Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter, who at a press conference Monday branded Mr. Klein and Ontario Premier Ernie Eves—who also opposes Kyoto—“ecological criminals.”

Slowly, Canadians are waking up to the facts of this corrupt pact and seeing the real financial consequences:

They’d also know, presumably, that Mr. Klein has a very potent political problem on his hands, which is that major Canadian corporations, such as Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and Husky Energy Inc., are delaying billion-dollar projects in Alberta’s oil sands, because of uncertainty about Kyoto’s costs and consequences.

The most important part is that Canada, out of all signitories, will be the hardest hit, while our nearest economic competitors, to whom we are losing most of our blue collar jobs to, won’t be affected at all.

At the same time, if greenhouse gases really are making the Earth hotter, U.S., Russian, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian and Mexican emissions—none of which are limited by Kyoto—will ensure the warming continues apace. Taken together, that means smog will be virtually unaffected. Riding a bike at rush hour in Toronto, for example, won’t get any easier. Is that the kind of environmental rescue plan we want?