Blame Canada, Part 636

Brian Doherty | 12.11.2002 7:20 AM

Canada's Parliament has just ratified the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas reductions. Reason's Ron Bailey explains why that was a dumb move here.

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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ExpatEgghead
December.12.2002 at 8:47 am

Economics has been described as the ‘dismal science’ . Today’s economic hero is a 55 year old man , dying of cancer and having an expensive divorce. I see John Christy fits the bill perfectly. He seems to have omitted the cost of losing around 100,000 square miles of the USA bordering the sea.
A 7% reduction is well within reach for the USA without much effort. Most plant emitting greenhouse gases will require replacement by then anyway. Replacing it with more efficient equipment isn’t hard. Even us Europeans manage.
Did anybody notice the cost of phasing out CFC’s in the USA? No, I thought not. Snort.