Staring over the edge. As we try to repeal the carbon tax.

Source: https://www.strathcona.ca/agriculture-environment/environment-and-conservation/

Within an hour I came across the following two articles.

1. from the IPCC on a need for a carbon budget and the very real impacts of climate change, here.
2. from the CBC on Doug Ford (Ontario's Premier) holding a rally in Alberta to challenge the federal government's Carbon tax, here.

An amazing dichotomy of events within a few hours. 

On the one hand, we have the IPCC attempting to bring to light the need for climate reform. On the other hand, we see the political reality (or political appetite to address climate problems). That is once again, let's ignore the problem and hope it goes away! 

I have written before as to why a carbon tax (or cap and trade) will never be popular (here). 

As always my hope is that we will stop playing around with the politics of the issue and deal with the problems in front of us ... however as those who have heard me talk on this know ... I am not overly optimistic that we will have a timely response.