Net Zero nuttery

Vincent J. Curtis

1 May 25

Net Zero nuttery is rooted in the belief that carbon dioxide causes bad weather, and that Canada can stop the world from sliding into a climate catastrophe seventy-five years hence. It also means that the year of the tipping point, when the slide into ruin becomes irreversible, is 2030.  Mark Carney has to move fast.

But reaching Net Zero in Canada the task of Sisyphus.  Canada’s forest fires of 2023 produced four times the amount of carbon dioxide that the Canadian humans produced that year; every attempt to capture anthropogenic CO2 by planting forests is but the creation of a time-bomb that inevitably will explode.  A couple years of drought in a mature forest produces plenty of kindling; the fire that destroyed Jasper, AB, was stoked by dried pine trees that had been killed years earlier by the pine beetle.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has pulled America from the Paris Climate Accord, and plans to re-introduce the production and use of “beautiful, clean coal.”  China, he observed at his recent rally in Michigan, opens a new coal-fired power plant every week; and India is not far behind. Both countries make steel by the use of coked coal, still the only practical way of reducing iron oxide into metallic iron.  Mr. Trump also plans to open the north slope of Alaska to oil and gas production under his program of “Drill, baby, drill.”  The curtailment of Alberta’s oil and gas production won’t compensate for these new sources of emissions which Mr. Carney believes will destroy the world.

The cities of Toronto, Mississauga, and Vancouver elected Mr. Carney and his party because they thought he was the man to deal with Mr. Trump, and prevent Canada from becoming the 51^st state of the American Union.  Apparently, these cities haven’t suffered enough crime, homelessness, and degradation of civilization enough to vote Conservative – yet.

Canadians will soon find that Mr. Carney is a lot less than his resume suggests.

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