canada and kyoto

Photo: Katrina by Tampen

Note: this is a partisan post.

I did not vote for Stephen Harper and his Conservative party. His apparent desire to weaken the Kyoto Protocol is a frightening affair, at a time when Canada, as an industrialized nation, should be showing leadership. I'm glad he has a minority government, but can he be kept at bay?

For an excellent article outlining the situation on global warming, see "While Washington Slept" by Mark Hertsgaard, as presented in the green issue of last month's Vanity Fair.

Unfortunately, the sobering photo illustrations by John Blackford of imagined submergings, which accompanied the article, do not seem to be readily available online, although you can see a couple of them here and here, and some other renderings here.