Terence Corcoran: Mark Carney’s '(climate) tragedy of the horizon' no longer exists |
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Terence Corcoran: Mark Carney’s '(climate) tragedy of the horizon' no longer exists
The latest scientific research knocks the prime minister's ‘implausible’ catastrophic climate scenario
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Green activists and their political representatives such as former Liberal environment minister Steven Guilbault are metaphorically marching on Parliament Hill over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s indisputable about-face away from hard-line climate policies. By agreeing to promote pipelines and delay the $130/tonne corporate carbon price until 2040, the head of Climate Action Network Canada said the PM is “taking a sledgehammer to one of the last remaining pillars of Canada’s climate plan.”
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Climate control advocates had better get used to falling policy pillars, in part because science pillars are also crumbling, including one that has helped elevate global warming and carbon emissions to the top of the Canadian political agenda. In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a range of estimates on the future impact of climate change, including an alarming warning that the planet could hit killer temperature increases by 2100. The scenario projection — known as RCP8.5 — estimated that temperatures could rise by up to 4.5 degrees above average by the end of the century. If the path to RCP8.5 was not stopped, the Earth would face a deadly climate catastrophe.
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