Smug Corcoran Celebrates Kyoto's Demise

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Financial Post Editor Terry Corcoran looks a little like a cat with big, canary- yellow feathers sticking out of every orifice now that it appears the Conservatives have successfully scuttled any international commitment in the Kyotoย agreement.

His piece today is rife with the spin that we have come to expect from him on thisย issue:

Kyoto, he says, was negotiated by โ€œAl Gore and Jean Chretien among a cast of loopy godfathersโ€ฆโ€ and is still supported by the same โ€œAl Gore and other extremists.โ€(my emphasis).

Corcoran then offers a couple of lame alternatives to life after Kyoto, but settles on โ€œdoing nothingโ€ as the best course.

โ€œAnother reason for doing nothing is that the science of global warming is not yet science. No matter what man does, the climate is going to change in strange and unpredictable ways in the future. If some 21st century Isaac Newton or Benjamin Franklin should come up with proof that man is pushing the world toward catastrophe, then maybe somebody could do something.โ€

If Isaac Newton was to show up in the National Post office with an apple in his hand, Corcoran would claim thatย the father of physics pulled it prematurely fromย the tree in a self-serving effort to get government funding for gravity research.

The science seems convincing enough to the 2,000-plus scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (if not the handful of contrarians whose work appears so frequently in Corcoran’s pages).ย  The science is even sufficient to win over extremists like Royal Dutch Shell and BP.

No, we don’t need a new Newton or a reincarated Franklin. We just need an intelligent antidote toย the strident anti-science bias of our second-stringย national newspaper.

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