[Makarov]

Originally Posted by Flamenspiel

I suggest you maybe read a couple of recent national post articles on the recent euro diesel scandals, the environmental scams go far beyond WV. The Europeans really cannot be trusted to play a fair game, in particular the environmental disaster that Russia has been is one of the worst in history.

Firstly, none of that answered the question I posed.

Secondly, I'm going to need far, far, far more evidence (than a scandal about Volkswagen emissions statistics) before I can accept that all of the greenhouse gas emissions statistics that have been tracked and compiled for decades are inherently unreliable.

Its worth noting that, if one accepts the numbers that we have been using for decades now, Canada is not even close to the vast majority of its peers when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. A few quibbles here and there about those numbers is therefore almost certainly irrelevant to the simple fact that Canada is failing when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions.

Canada is one of the world's largest per capita GHG emitters. Canada ranks 15th out of 17 OECD countries on GHG emissions per capita and scores a “D” grade.3 In 2010, Canada’s GHG emissions were 20.3 tonnes per capita, significantly higher than the 17-country average of 12.5 tonnes per capita. Canada’s per capita GHG emissions were nearly three times greater than Switzerland’s, the top performer.

While Canada’s GHG emissions per capita have fallen since 1990, many other countries have managed to decrease them even more. For example, Germany and the U.K. reduced their per capita GHG emissions by 27 per cent between 1990 and 2010.

Canada ranks 15th out of 17 countries for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per capita and earns a “D” grade.
Canada’s per capita GHG emissions decreased by nearly 5 per cent between 1990 and 2010, while total GHG emissions in Canada grew 17 per cent.
The largest contributor to Canada’s GHG emissions is the energy sector, which includes power generation (heat and electricity), transportation, and fugitive sources.

SOURCE: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/de...ons.aspx#_ftn3