A funny thing happened on the way to Net Zero - Climate Discussion Nexus

Strange how a man they deride as an idiot can make them so much smarter so fast, but they couldn’t do it themselves.

• After Donald Trump made various disagreeable noises about Canada, including threats of tariffs if we didn’t start taking border security seriously (and maybe even if we did), Canadian politicians who’d been running the place down as colonial, even genocidal, and invoking martial law against truckers and their horrible Canadian flags, suddenly wrapped themselves in the same flag. 

What’s more, they decided they loved the energy sector they’d been running into the ground, and nuclear power that they shunned.

For instance Chrystia Freeland, long Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s loyal Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister until she discovered loyalty was a one-way street for him, suddenly promised to:

“seize the opportunity to make Canada an energy superpower, from powering our grids with hydro to exporting liquefied natural gas to our allies.”

...Likewise, Canada’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, formerly Minister of Environment and Climate Change and a warming-dogmatist foe of oil and gas the whole way, stammered:

“We’re all aware now that perhaps there are some vulnerabilities we did not actually believe existed. We should be reflecting on the vulnerabilities and deciding collectively, including with our First Nation partners, whether there are some things we should do to address these vulnerabilities.”...