The House of Cards Has Started to Fall -- Wow, Wow, Wow -- Canada Will Withdraw From the Kyoto Protocol -- Ignore This Posting If Arriving Here Looking for Data on the Bakken

Update

December 14, 2011: Datapoints from the 2011 UN Durban Conference

• global warming is not so urgent any more: conferees agreed to spend as long as four years drafting a new protocol
• the new protocol, "legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force" to take effect by 2020
• the phrase 'agreed outcome with legal force' is new; director of WWF's climate change program does not know what it means; "they just made it up"
• the biggest polluters, China and India, expect to be assigned looser limits in the final accord [how can it be any more loose; they are already exempt, aren't they?]
• apparently "legal outcome" was at the insistence of India, as an alternative to "protocol" or "legal instrument"

This very long, in-depth article did not mention that Canada has now withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol

Original Post

The house of cards is starting to fall. This is the headline in the mainstream media: Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol -- Reuters

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Monday.

"As we've said, Kyoto for Canada is in the past ... We are invoking our legal right to formally withdraw from Kyoto," he told reporters.

My hunch: the US decision to kill the Keystone XL was the last straw. This decision by Canada effectively kills any thought -- just the thought -- of the US signing the protocol. Ain't gonna happen.

There is no direct relationship, or very little, between the Keystone and the Kyoto Protocol, but the Canadians appear to have had it "up to here" with faux-environmentalists in the US. Good for them. Finally, someone makes a decision.

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The Twelve Days of Durban

Link here

The 12 days of the Durban climate bash proved to be the political damp squib widely predicted.

Pre-summit statements from major economies – the United States, India, China and Brazil – all dumping on the Kyoto agenda saw to that.

However, whilst it will take political elites time to realise it, the climate alarmist goose has been clearly stuffed and cooked.

Data points:

• global CO2 emissions have reached an all-time high
• global temperatures have not risen in almost 15 years
• BBC programmers were exposed for selling news slots to green campaigners
• formal UN IPCC report: "climate change signals are expected to be relatively small compared to natural climate variability"
• Britain's Prince Phillip: "wind forms are useless"; "fairy-style" green energy
• the promise of green jobs have failed miserably; about which Obama jokes (he can; he has a job)
• shale gas phenomenon is now supporting 600,000 new jobs; again, those are new jobs
• insurance giant Allianz warned that the 'volatile' nature of wind and solar as sources of power will create 'grid instabilities' that are likely to cause 'catastrophic blackouts'

And I love the adage at the end: "People don't change when they see the light; they change when they feel the heat."

Something tells me Canada has felt the heat.

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Most incredible data points

• Canada will pull out of the Kyoto Protocol
• Allianz says solar and wind energy will wreak havoc with electric grids
• UN: climate changes signals are relatively small compared to natural climate variability
• The promise of green jobs has failed miserably

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