Humanity’s turkey is cooked while politicians play hot potato with climate change

Canadians aren’t in rapture over the notion we must immediately and forcefully address a warming planet, so it’s hard to imagine our politicians would be either.

You only need look in Ottawa's backyard to see provincial leaders like Ontario Premier Doug Ford scoring political points by abandoning carbon-pricing schemes, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

October 10, 2018

OTTAWA—Over the Thanksgiving weekend Canadians were reminded again of the perils of unaddressed climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a gloomy report. Effectively the panel argued that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels means the wo...

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