Climate Change Denier
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in his own words…
Address at the Ottawa Leader’s Dinner, November 20, 2002
”[Kyoto] is designed to address the so-called ‘greenhouse gas’ phenomenon, the hypothesis that the increase of certain gases - not necessarily pollutants - contribute to a long-term global warming trend.”
2002 Canadian Alliance Fundraising letter
“Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations…It’s based on tentative and contradictory scientific evidence about climate trends.”
Transcript of Stephen Harper Interview on the Rafe Mair Show, CKNW Radio Vancouver, November 29, 2002
“We think the deal itself [Kyoto] is simply bogus…Carbon dioxide which is a naturally occurring gas vital to the life cycles of this planet. Smog is an entirely different issue is not covered by this treaty.”
Conservative leader Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.
”[Y]our country [the USA], and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.”
“Climate to set stage on Obama’s trip north. No seat for Stelmach at talks: PM,” Calgary Herald, Wednesday January 14 2009.
“The oilsands, notwithstanding the environmental challenges they do have, are going to remain an important part of the U.S. energy supply for a long time to come. And I’m sure the president-elect will come to realize that in short order.”
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- A salesman for Big Oil who never met a dirty oil project he didn’t like.
- A denier of climate change.
- A Conservative Canadian Prime Minister near election time looking for a boost from being photographed with President Obama.
- Someone who George Bush thinks “understands the stakes of the 21st century”.
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