Peter Foster: Harper’s election climate – Financial Post
August 12, 2015
Harper has to keep playing the game because everybody else is playing the game
How much of a role will projected catastrophic man-made climate change (to give it its full and necessary title) play in the federal election? The issue has been a problem for the Conservatives because deep professed concern has become de rigueur, but Stephen Harper has taken the entirely responsible position of not doing pointless economic damage to win “moral” brownie points.
His stance is increasingly, if somewhat ironically, supported by two provincial premiers, Kathleen Wynne and Rachel Notley, whose policies establish that “fighting” climate change is far from a cost-free activity.
Even the Conservatives seem reluctant to point out the lack of global warming in the past 18 years. That’s because to do so would instantly unleash the hounds of green social-mediated hell, all scream-tweeting “denier” and “shill.” (Recently, following an article by Wynne in the Globe, I contacted her office to ask how she could write about a “rapidly warming planet” when there was no current warming. I am still waiting for elucidation.)
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