Emmisions. Global warming. Climate change.

Well, I suppose that many do have concerns regarding this topic, including the Canadian government, but not to the degree that other heads of state have on this topic.

I live in Ottawa, Canada, Canada's capital city. We use to be the third coldest capital city in the world, but got tossed down to seventh because of the break-up of the USSR. Today, it is -9C, just a day after we got dumped upon with 25 centimeters of snow. All 5000kms of Canda's east-west territory received snow in the last 24 hours, and temperatures out west have dropped to -17C as the day time high.

Factor in the wind, and it seems even colder than that. They are predicting that this winter will be the coldest in a decade, and that does not excite ME too much.

I believe the third world countries, such as India and China have to be more aggressive in controlling their environments. China is producing many forklifts these days, yet there is no control over their facility emmisions, nevermind the forklifts. As far as Canada is concerned, in my opinion, trying to sell this philosophy, is a tough sell. We endure four months of extreme cold, and tons of snow.

When I can keep my swimming pool open year round, and jump in on Christmas and New Years days, then I would be concerned about global warming, and the emissions. Until then, I am more concerned with the economies of the Americas, and the loss of production, and jobs, to third world countries. Not that these countries don't deserve some of the production, but not to the degree that has been lost.

I may sound naive, but rightly so, but most Canadians feel the brunt of winter, and we don't see any change coming soon. To me, the world is selling this global warming thing to the wrong country.

However, I wouldn't mind reading the concerns pertaining to this topic, from other member of this site.