Dear Editor:
As I listen to the federal leaders competing to lead Canada I am amazed that the public must be totally ignorant of the facts related to climate change and CO2 emissions.
If you do your homework you will find that Canada has 617,000 metric tons (MT) of CO2 emissions or 1.58% of the global total (all data I present is based on 2017 year end numbers). Others include:
– China 10,877,218 MT or 27.2%;
– U.S. 5,107,393 MT or 14.58; and
– India 2,454,774 MT or 6.82.
The big problem is that based on the Paris Accord, developing nations like China and India are not under the restraints that other developed countries are trying to implement. As an example India and China’s growth rates in CO2 are 6.3 and 4.7% respectively or, in other words, in one year their new CO2 emissions exceed Canada’s total output of CO2.
As far as Justin Trudeau being a global leader in reducing CO2, his impact in India, where he was ridiculed by the Indian press for his wedding costume fiasco, and his lecture to the Chinese dictator on LGBT human rights and feminist issues went over like a lead balloon and resulted in our current difficult situation.
So good luck to those that believe that Canada’s carbon tax will have a global impact and solve this world problem.
The U.S. and the Euro zone (3.548,345 MT) together are still not as large as China, so getting the big fast growers like China and India under control is mandatory.
John Bossie,
Puslinch