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Canada will fail to meet climate change goals

[image-1] The graph above comes from a page quietly posted on Environment Canada’s website last week, with the page titled “Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Target and Emissions Projections.” The graph shows the amount, in megatonnes (millions of tonnes), of greenhouse gases emitted by the entire country each year between 1990 and 2010, with projections forward to 2020. There’s a small attempt to spin the real situation—it throws in the red herring of China’s GHG emissions (a real concern, but not relevant to this country meeting its own GHG goals), and this bit of misdirection: Added together, all these existing government actions

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