Canada is on track!

Wow!  So maybe there is something to this stay-the-course stuff.  Let’s see...

Oh...I see...

Canada is on track to dramatically miss its 2012 Kyoto target of cutting GHGs by 6 per cent below 1990 levels.

So what is Canada doing about this?

You know how some chicks only hang around with unattractive women thinking they will look better by contrast?  Or how the alcoholic asshole tries to get everyone else drunk thinking he won’t look so bad if everyone is acting like an asshole?

Canada has reportedly aligned itself with Russia and Japan to block the extension of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012...The move by the Harper government has sparked criticism from environmentalists and opposition politicians, who argue Canada is now holding back talks at a climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico.

Well, harper & co., you’re still an ugly chick, and you're still assholes.  And don’t think people haven’t noticed.

Canada won first, second, and third place in a 'Fossil of the Day' mock award ceremony in Cancun on Tuesday.  The awards were given by environmental groups to the country they believe has done the most to disrupt and undermine negotiations at the UN climate conference.

First place awarded for: killing the Climate Change Accountability Act.

Second place awarded for:  Federal efforts to gut climate change programs, including attacks on clean fuels policies in other countries, cuts to funding for Canada's climate science foundation, and the elimination of energy efficiency upgrades for homeowners.

Third place awarded for "the country making the least constructive contribution to the negotiations."

All this during the same couple of weeks that this comes out:

Climate change fans deep-burning fires in Alaska

Climate Change Could Cost 1 Million Lives A Year By 2030

Rise in flood claims tied to climate change

Now, over to our Minister of the Environment for some lies explanations:

Environment Minister John Baird said Sunday that U.S. regulations set to take effect on Jan. 2, 2011, simply wouldn’t work in Canada. “We just can’t because the permitting process with America . . . is so different than ours, we can’t have full-on harmonization like we can with auto (emissions’) standard,” he said.

Baird’s comments come despite the Harper government’s pledge to harmonize its regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases with the United States.