Dear Editor:
RE: Tipping point, April 18.
Ron Moore is a good example of a climate change alarmist by his stating, “We are rapidly approaching a tipping point beyond which there may be no return to a world as we know it.” Wow! How does he justify such a wild statement? This is how.
He uses the stat that Canadians are the fifth highest per capita emitters to support his illogical alarmist rhetoric. He ignores the fact that Canada represents a mere 1.5% of man-made global CO2 emissions since Canada is one of the largest, coldest countries in the world with a small population – about 10% of the U.S.
Transportation and heating are huge contributors to our emissions. He has the audacity to paint us as almost twice as bad as China on a per capita basis while ignoring the fact that China is the highest emitter with 31% and Canada at 1.5%.
If Canada was eliminated, man-made emissions would drop by 0.06%. When this was posed to a liberal politician recently on 1010 Talk Radio who was justifying the carbon tax, he said that if we did nothing, China would then say why should we address our emissions?
Does he really believe that China doesn’t see us as fools while they continue building coal plants? This warped thinking is what we are being fed by the Liberals.
Moore is also against us building pipelines while forgetting that Canada is a resource-based economy and our prosperity is owed to it. Countries would love to buy our oil and natural gas rather than from countries with poor human rights records. Liberals have done all they can to keep our resources in the ground while buying 15% of our crude needs from Saudi Arabia and 13% from Nigeria.
Moore goes on to say we should “do our part” while ignoring energy facts. Ontario’s energy comes from hydro 25.1%, nuclear 46.5%, wind 12%, solar 0.5%, biomass 0.2% and natural gas 15.6%. I’d surmise we are definitely doing our part. Quebec is also doing its part with 87.4% of its energy coming from hydro and 1.8% from natural gas.
Peter Mandic,
Elora