Most Canadians will be happy to know that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend the international climate change conference in Copenhagen Dec. 7 -- even if few believe he will achieve anything significant there.
According to a recent Angus Reid online survey, 76 per cent of 1,010 respondents think that Prime Minister Harper should attend negotiations. Harper had been waffling on whether he would or wouldn't, but his spokesperson told reporters this morning he decided in favour because all the other leaders were going.
He also said that "the countries of the world remain a long way from a binding, legal treaty on climate change" -- a sentiment that most Canadian share.
The survey found that, while most people (58 per cent) want participant countries to come up with a legally binding agreement on specific greenhouse gas reduction targets, only five per cent actually expect it to happen.
A fifth of those surveyed (20 per cent) wish to see targets met on on a voluntary basis, and only 12 per cent would be happy to see that there is no agreement at all.
Poll results also showed that 63 per cent of Canadians believe that climate change is a real problem, caused by human activity.
Colleen Kimmett reports for The Tyee.
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Wilfride Laurier
2 years ago
And
Nor do the vast majority of Canadians want to do anything about GHG that would affect their lifestyles.
Dr Alexander
2 years ago
It almost looks rediculous now...
Watching "world leaders" natter on about carbon emissions, while on a daily basis we see more evidence of data manipulation and shoddy Pro-AGW science.
realisticman
2 years ago
State of the Art Spin
The academic value to study and learn from the Copenhagen gabfest will be to see who can ad-lib bafflegab spin the best. If anyone so much as mumbles the words 'global warming' they will be pounced on to clarify and elaborate. This will require abstruseness of the highest order.
Some of the top 'warming' boys must have had their expense accounts chopped this week too. Will they be conspicuous by their absence?
freebear
2 years ago
The problem is...
we have low expectations of our so-called leaders!