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Climate change predictions, whether they have to do with the weather or the economy, are notoriously unreliable, but this report suggests that Canada could meet its Kyoto goals without suffering unbearable economic hardship. The economy would continue to grow, although at a slower pace than it might. Most of the price for that lag would be paid by the energy-driven economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan, but eastern Canada, Ontario and Quebec, most prominently, might actually prosper from that. That's a tempting political prospect. It may also, however, largely be irrelevant at the moment. Mr. [Ban]'s pessimism about a Copenhagen protocol is well justified. The Third World, including such industrial giants as China and India, is not encumbered by the emission restrictions of Kyoto, which apply to only 37 industrialized countries. They have no intention of signing on in Copenhagen.
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Editorial
ON the same day that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was publicly expressing doubts that the international conference on climat...
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