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Kelly McParland: After years of costly climate policies fail to meet targets, UN advocates for more

It was never going to work. Even so, doubters were denounced as cranks and deniers

I was awakened the other day by a noisy hubbub on the street outside.

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It proved to be two men in a municipal vehicle, racing around the neighbourhood digging holes and planting leafless sticks in front yards. The sticks were allegedly trees, part of the local government’s program against climate change. If they survived the winter, they were to provide “town-wide cover” to absorb emissions and save us from an inferno-esque future.

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Not long afterward, a report arrived detailing further civic exertions on the climate’s behalf. Only, at the end, it noted the local government’s own emissions were up 8 per cent thanks partly to the fact it was still cutting grass with gas-powered mowers and deploying emission-spewing trucks to scatter saplings like dandelion seeds.

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I mention this as an example of the decades of ill-considered, poorly planned, under-researched, often contradictory and frequently doomed government schemes imposed in the name of “climate action” prior to this week’s announcement that one of the world’s foremost initiatives was officially a failure.

Last week, the United........

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