On Canadian pots ...and American Kettles..

It would seem that the intellectually vacuous practice of tearing others down so as to attempt to enhance one's own image (can you say DNC?) is catching on.. From here

Politicians rip apart U.S. to build up Canada's image

By ROBERT RUSSO

OTTAWA (CP) - U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins said overheated election rhetoric is prompting some Canadian officials to burnish Canada's image by sullying the reputation of the United States.

Wilkins made no official comment on the Bush administration's annoyance with Prime Minister Paul Martin's denigration of U.S. environmental policies during an interview with The Canadian Press. Instead, he expressed regret that the United States was being drawn into a campaign that it was trying to stay out of.

"It appears that oftentimes, some officials, in order to build Canada up, attempt to tear the United States down," Wilkins told CP Friday.

And now, for the "pot meet kettle" portion of my post:

Wilkins was in the audience at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Montreal on Wednesday when Martin suggested the Bush administration was being deaf to the global conscience calling for united action to stem the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

Martin was unrepentant.

"The foreign policy of this country - the overall policy of this country - is set by the prime minister," he said in Montreal. "And I'll continue to do that."

The U.S. ambassador said he was taken aback by Martin's position and the vehemence with which it was argued.

"In view of the fact that the United States's performance on climate control over the last few years has been better than Canada's, I was surprised by those comments," Wilkins said.

The United States has not signed the Kyoto Protocol, which called on countries to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Since the agreement was signed in 1990, U.S. emissions have increased by 13 per cent (emphases mine). Canada, which did sign Kyoto, has seen its emissions jump by 24 per cent.

Outside of America-bashing by radical socialist elements, which has taken much of the world by storm as of late, I would venture to say that Canada (as well as other Kyoto signatories) has probably kept pretty close with the protocol. The problem with Kyoto is ::::Drumroll please::::

IT WON'T WORK!!!

You can live, breathe and eat the Kyoto protocol til the ever-loving cows come home, and it will not make one iota of a difference in the Earth's climate. The Earth will do what the Earth will do. To think that humans can affect global climate change in one way or another is fool's fodder.

Although I will admit that it makes one attractive straw man to flail about in front of an otherwise uninformed electorate.

(Filed under Enviro-Whackism)