Cheryl, your defense of the climate establishment misses the point entirely and recycles the same evasive tactics that have justified trillions in wasted spending, eroded Canadian sovereignty, and delivered measurable economic pain with zero verifiable planetary benefit.
No serious skeptic claims climate scientists literally say “CO2 is the only knob”, that’s a convenient straw man. The actual issue is the dominant policy narrative and IPCC-centered framing that treats human CO2 emissions as the primary control knob for dangerous anthropogenic global warming, justifying urgent net-zero mandates, carbon pricing, regulatory chokeholds like Bill C-69, and stalled resource projects while downplaying natural variability, model failures, and adaptation.
Paleoclimate data from ice cores and proxies repeatedly show temperatures leading CO2 changes by centuries during deglaciations, driven by Milankovitch cycles, solar variability, ocean circulations (AMO/PDO/AMOC), clouds, and water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas. The Holocene Climatic Optimum was warmer than today with lower CO2, the Younger Dryas delivered rapid multi-degree swings with stable greenhouse gases. Today’s ~1.1°C rise fits recovery from the Little Ice Age within Holocene variability.
Human fossil contributions, per isotopic mass balance (Suess effect, δ¹³C), account for roughly 60 ppm or ~14-15% of the post-industrial rise to ~425 ppm. Natural ocean degassing and biosphere fluxes dominate the rest. During the 2020 lockdowns, global human emissions dropped sharply (human share is only 3-4% of the annual carbon cycle), yet atmospheric CO2 kept rising.
Canada emits just 1.1-1.5% of global totals, our instant net-zero would be statistical noise while hammering our cold geography with higher heating/transport costs, offshoring jobs/emissions to coal-heavy competitors, and deindustrialization. BC’s 15 year carbon tax extracted billions with negligible relative cuts and zero detectable global temperature or sea-level impact. CMIP6 models routinely overpredict tropospheric warming against satellite (UAH/RSS), balloon, and ARGO data, with massive uncertainties in clouds and feedbacks that IPCC reports themselves admit.
This isn’t “settled science” enabling precise attribution of every weather event to CO2, it’s narrative enforcement that props up policies Canadians live with daily. Under Trudeau-to-Carney continuity, we’ve racked up persistent deficits, combined public debt exceeding $2.3-2.4 trillion, a technical recession with GDP contractions in late 2025/early 2026 (only G7 economy in that spot), productivity at ~71% of U.S. levels, families of four facing ~$17,500 in annual groceries (up sharply), record food bank use, and one in four households food-insecure.
Over $670 billion in resource projects stalled by regulatory thickets, UNDRIP vetoes shredding Charter Section 15 equality, and carbon pricing. We hold the world’s third-largest oil reserves, produce among the lowest-emissions-intensity barrels, yet import ~40% of our crude. Taxes devour 42-43% of median family income while real wages erode.
Your post ignores these receipts while shielding a framework that prioritizes distant projections and global signalling over evidence-based realism: all-of-the-above energy (oil/gas/LNG displacing dirtier imports, hydro, SMR nuclear) under statutory timelines, fiscal discipline, immigration tied to infrastructure, uniform Charter rules ending parallel systems, and focus on adaptation plus verifiable metrics over unfalsifiable alarm.
Geography, integrated North American supply chains (75% of exports to the U.S.), and NORAD demand pragmatic sovereignty, not performative globalism or European technocracy that imports stagnation.
Canadians deserve policies measured by outcomes: affordability, jobs, productivity, and prosperity for citizens first. One Charter standard applied equally. Precision over propaganda. Evidence over excuses. Canada first.
Barry E. Sharp