Post Copenhagen

Well the Copenhagen Climate Conference ended on the weekend with nothing more than a Treaty that hopes to deal with the problem in the near future, and sets money aside for developing countries to combat climate change. I think the conference was a failure because the Copenhagen Conference was the fifteenth so far and way back at conference number seven in 2005, they had a legally binding contract called the Kyoto Accord one hundred and eighty seven countries or states agreed to lower green house gasses by 5.2% of 1990 levels. Sure the Kyoto Accord did not have hard targets for big emitters such as the United States, China, or India, and a few other developed nations, but in my opinion and the opinion of many others, Kyoto was the starting point at which countries could adjust targets and ratify objectives. None of that happened, now four years later, people were looking for a new accord, one that included everyone and one that made targets extremely soft. On a positive side they did agree to set aside money for poor developing countries to build new environment friendly technologies (ie: wind turbines and solar panels). The one thing that really upsets me about this meeting is that Canada played a obstructive role and made no attempts to continue to lead in this forum. Our government was on record months before saying that they didn't think anything would be achieved from the Copenhagen Conference, what an utter disappointment. Countries around the world now view Canada as a country who doesn't believe in global warming and as a country who has no intention of doing anything about it. I have now changed my profile picture from a Canadian flag to a picture of Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) peeing on a picture of the world and a sign that says "I am Canadian" Again what a disappointment!