Finally, some common sense is being injected into the climate change debate.
As Moloney points out, neither the Paris accord nor the Liberal government give any recognition to the huge amounts of CO2 sequestered by our forests, crop land and grasslands. As he states, “new farming practices such as no-till agriculture, made possible through biotechnology crops, have sequestered the carbon equivalents per annum of removing four million cars off the roads.”
Instead of recognizing the contribution of our agricultural sector in this matter, the Liberal government is about to impose a carbon tax that will severely damage our agricultural industry.
It seems the climate change gurus are doing everything in their power to control the message on the issue. Recently, talk show host John Gormley interviewed Ezra Levant, CEO of the Rebel News Network. Levant said the United Nations has refused to accredit three of its journalists, blacklisting it from covering the upcoming global warming conference in Morocco. The UN’s excuse was that they were “advocacy journalists.” Apparently, the only advocacy journalists allowed to attend are those advocating for the UN’s particular point of view.
The UN’s own Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. It appears the UN is willing to break its own rules in order to control the message. To date the UN has ignored letters from several organizations in support of the RNN, including the Canadian Association of Journalists. Pretty scary stuff.
Bernard L. Cohen of Regina writes:
In his Oct. 18 commentary “Carbon pricing should be based on science,” Maurice Moloney says agricultural carbon emitters should be given credit for the carbon they “sequester.” That is nonsense.
Since industrialization, nations have been extracting coal and oil that was previously sequestered in the Earth’s crust for hundreds of millions of years and burning it at an ever-accelerating rate and the percentage of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere has been going up and up. It is this accumulation that is causing our global climate to warm and become increasingly unstable. The only way to reverse this is to decelerate our burning of fossil fuels to a level that stabilizes the level of CO2 in our atmosphere.
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