Comments on: Stephen Harper on Climate Change http://carbonfixated.com/stephen-harper-on-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stephen-harper-on-climate-change Photosynthesising in a CO2-enriched world Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:19:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: john http://carbonfixated.com/stephen-harper-on-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-115999 john Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:51:49 +0000 http://carbonfixated.com/stephen-harper-on-climate-change/#comment-115999 thank you very much, GREAT info! :) thank you very much, GREAT info! :)

]]> By: Kent Kills Kyoto: Even the Taiwanese animators hate us : Canada's online magazine: Politics, entertainment, technology, media, arts, books: backofthebook.ca http://carbonfixated.com/stephen-harper-on-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-95255 Kent Kills Kyoto: Even the Taiwanese animators hate us : Canada's online magazine: Politics, entertainment, technology, media, arts, books: backofthebook.ca Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:35:59 +0000 http://carbonfixated.com/stephen-harper-on-climate-change/#comment-95255 [...] Even though his record speaks for itself. [...] [...] Even though his record speaks for itself. [...]

]]> By: Kate http://carbonfixated.com/stephen-harper-on-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Kate Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:38:52 +0000 http://carbonfixated.com/stephen-harper-on-climate-change/#comment-851 So did his opinions change, or is he just trying to keep everyone happy because he knows a denier PM won't stay elected for long? <em>[CAM: a little bit of both? Denialism plays well with a lot of Canadians, and it probably helped get him elected. The Wild Rose Alliance are <a href="http://www.wildrosealliance.ca/newscentre/wap-news/198-copenhagen-likely-to-be-another-costly-un-failure" rel="nofollow">on a similar path.</a> For Harper, once in power, it was hard to keep on denying reality, and electorally advantageous to accept the reality of climate change, as it stole some ground back from Dion and the Green Shift. A 'Made in Canada solution', the PCs were calling it. The message here may be: you can vote in a climate change denier, but once in power, sooner or later they are just going to sell out and accept the science. Although they can still do their best not to do anything about it...]</em> So did his opinions change, or is he just trying to keep everyone happy because he knows a denier PM won’t stay elected for long?

[CAM: a little bit of both? Denialism plays well with a lot of Canadians, and it probably helped get him elected. The Wild Rose Alliance are on a similar path.

For Harper, once in power, it was hard to keep on denying reality, and electorally advantageous to accept the reality of climate change, as it stole some ground back from Dion and the Green Shift. A 'Made in Canada solution', the PCs were calling it.

The message here may be: you can vote in a climate change denier, but once in power, sooner or later they are just going to sell out and accept the science. Although they can still do their best not to do anything about it...]

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