The Conservative government's green plan, released with much fanfare on Thursday, is a mixed bag and so deserves a mixed response. Much of the substance is praiseworthy (and some is not), but the spin has been atrocious. John Baird, the Environment Minister, has been so keen to win praise from environmentalists and green voters that he has adopted the scare-mongering rhetoric of the Liberals and other eco-crusaders. In announcing a plethora of emission caps, carbon-trading schemes, pollution controls, taxes, regulations, penalties and light bulb bans, Mr. Baird couldn't resist predicting that winter as we know it will disappear if action...