Jay Currie

We do not know how much we must change our economic activity to produce a particular reduction of warming. And we do not know whether warming is necessarily dangerous. Over the millennia, the planet has warmed and cooled for reasons that are unclear but clearly were unrelated to SUVs. Was life better when ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there? Are we sure the climate at this particular moment is exactly right, and that it must be preserved, no matter the cost? George Will, Newsweek

I am hoping, and Will’s column is another reason to hope, that it is going to dawn on more and more of the MSM that Kyoto and the reports of the IPCC do not either specify a real problem or offer any real solution.

Unfortunately, climate change as an issue in Canada has become entirely political and none of the parties seem capable of actually doing the analysis. Instead they seem to be in a bidding war to see who can sound “toughest” (and most extravagant) on the issue. this state of affairs is likely to last until someone starts attaching some costs to some of the solutions. Then, perhaps, it will dawn on the great and the good that countering climate change, if it can be done at all, is going to be extremely expensive. And, worse, most of the money spend and economic activity foregone, may not have any effect at all.