Howard Epstein on Kyoto

Excerpt from Hansard: July 6, 2006
The honourable member for Halifax Chebucto

Subject: Kyoto

The film, which was made by the former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth has gone into general release and is receiving very positive comment. One prominent film reviewer said, “Every school, college and church group, and everyone else beyond the sway of General Motors, ExxonMobil and the White House should see this movie . . .”…All MLAs were offered tickets to a premier of this film on June 15th. I did not see the minister there, but I believe he saw the film last night … one of the points that Mr. Gore makes in the film is that if the Arctic icefields melt due to global climate change, there would be a 20-foot rise in sea levels worldwide, even small changes in sea levels would be highly problematic in many parts of Nova Scotia, including the minister’s own home constituency… will [the minister] tell us what is he doing to lead the way in coastal zone planning in order to avoid potentially disastrous consequences from flooding?... a shorthand way to understand the important problem is to just keep in mind the term ‘hot air’. We see a lot of that here. I addressed the minister’s attention to the problem of consequences a moment ago, but the main approach should be on the side of prevention. Now, one of the main contributors to global climate change is the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide…can the minister point to even one Nova Scotia law that controls the emission of carbon dioxide?

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