Nothing sums up how I feel better

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Canada made a commitment to a process which was international in scope. Now we are back to every man for himself. It is interesting to note that Harper's language in this has matched George Bush phrase for phrase over time. Instead of 'global warming', we now have 'climate change' - a Bush innovation.

I'm not even gonna get into that. He said something similar to Bush, so he must be a Bush clone.

Unfortunately, he is.

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I highly doubt Canada would do "just fine" without oil and gas. Last time I heard those resources were helping the economy. I'm sure that people outside of Alberta will notice once they start realizing they don't have as much money from equalization.

I am with you on this one. Clean and friendly oil and gas. Not at all like blood diamonds....

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Hmm. something i remember from a geology class back in the day, more like paleo oh well here goes, there have been ice ages and massive amounts of global warming all throughout geologic time. The amount of CO2 in the air in the Carboniferous was much much larger than it is now, but then it dropped. How you ask, the Earth has a way of naturally balancing everything out, so when its warm and theres lots of CO2 in the air more and more plants grow in areas that there weren't any plants and the oceans soak up more and more CO2, the opposite happens when there are dangerously low levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, so in the extreme long run this is just a minor blip on whats going on and why im not too worried about global warming.

Of course you are right. But there might be a problem when the climate fluctuates too far out of the vertebrate hospitality zone. Thinking things like wind speed, uv radiation, temperature, levels of precipitation, air moisture content.....

If things really get out of whack, we might start having to worry about number of daylight hours, but by that time, I imagine the cockroaches have taken over.

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I highly doubt Canada would do "just fine" without oil and gas. Last time I heard those resources were helping the economy. I'm sure that people outside of Alberta will notice once they start realizing they don't have as much money from equalization.

I am with you on this one. Clean and friendly oil and gas. Not at all like blood diamonds....

Are you being sarcastic? Oil and gas is equivilent to blood diamonds?