Saturday, August 2, 2008

Green Shift? Which Policy is right?

It's a pity that the climate is a political issue -- it really should be a technical one. Presumably everyone wants a world we can live in for the long term...


Expert report questions Tory greenhouse-gas claims
By Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The Harper government might be overestimating how much its climate-change plan will lower greenhouse gases, says a federal advisory panel.


Flaws in government calculations could skew projections around the Tories' green policies, the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy says in a report to be released Saturday.


"Some problems persist with how individual policy measures are calculated and with their projected emission reductions," the report says.

Full story here:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080801/national/climate_change_report

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