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Kyoto bill may force election Government would be tied to stringent targets John Ivison with files from Katie Rook National Post, Friday, February 09, 2007 OTTAWA - A Liberal-sponsored bill that would legally require the Conservative government to abide by the Kyoto protocol's short-term targets will be debated for the final time in the House of Commons today, before going to a vote next week when it is all but guaranteed to pass. Constitutional experts say the implications of passing the bill could see Prime Minister Stephen Harper forced to choose between implementing measures to meet Kyoto targets he...

Debunking hot hysteria Political agendas, massive misinformation fuelling climate debate By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN Toronto Sun Sunday, January 14, 2007 Here are some things you probably haven't heard in all the recent hysteria being spouted about global warming by too many politicians, media and environmental activists. To keep this controversy in perspective: 1. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old and has experienced many protracted periods of global warming and cooling that had nothing to do with human beings because we weren't yet alive. Glaciers melted and ice ages locked the Earth in their grip long before we existed. Scientists...

Eco hysteria over polar bears unjustified: They are not in danger, insists Nunavut biologist who knows the animals The Edmonton Journal, Sun 31 Dec 2006 Page: A16 , Section: Opinion Byline: Lorne Gunter "No evidence exists that suggests that both [polar] bears and the conservation systems that regulate them will not adapt and respond to the new conditions. Polar bears have persisted through many similar climate cycles." There's a lot in that two-sentence statement from Dr. Mitch Taylor, polar bear biologist for the government of Nunavut, and one of the leading experts in the world on Ursus maritimus. First,...

From Rachel Carson, the founder of modern environmentalism whose 1962 book "Silent Spring" first raised popular awareness of industrial chemicals in the environment, to Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate who mobilized women in East Africa to plant more than 20 million trees, the story of environmentalism is the story of women going up against long odds to do what they know is right. Because today is International Women's Day, it's a perfect time to celebrate a few of the many women -- from radical rabble-rousers to corporate officers -- who give the environmental movement much of its strength...