Do We Need More Proof That Harper Doubts Global Warming?

First we had the cuts to ozone monitoring that saw the shuttering of 17 ozone monitoring stations across Canada. The reason? Ozone apparently wasn’t a concern anymore (see Canada’s newest Ozone hole here).

Then we had the sudden (and somewhat expected) cut of 700 jobs from environment Canada (which included Meteorologists, scientists, chemists and engineers).

Now we have the announcement today that Canada is officially pulling out of Kyoto by next month. Minister for the Environment Peter Kent had this to say about abandoning the global climate agreement:

Canada goes to Durban with a number of countries sharing the same objective, and that is to put Kyoto behind us.

This is the Harper Government way. Blame everyone else (heck, I’m surprised Ignatieff wasn’t thrown in for good measure) instead of taking responsibility for your own actions. These Conservatives always talk about people being more responsible, but the buck doesn’t seem to stop with them.

It’s more clear now then ever that not only does the Harper government will do nothing to change course on global warming, it’s doubtful that the government even believes it’s happening at all.

Cross Posted at The Ryan Painter Show