• You argue that anthropogenic climate change is an issue that transcends national borders, and therefore requires global cooperation.
  
  
• You then argue that such global cooperation has never happened before, and therefore we are better to plan for the inevitable effects rather than continue fruitlessly against the cause.
  
  
• Finally, you argue that fear mongering on the topic is a tool being used to consolidate government authority.
  

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You might have heard that Canada's forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we produce — so we don't have to worry about our greenhouse gas emissions.

This claim has been circulated on social media and repeated by pundits and politicians.

This would be convenient for our country, if it were real. Hitting our emissions-reduction targets would be a breeze. But, like most things that sound too good to be true, this one is false.

That's because trees don't just absorb carbon when they grow, they emit it when they die and decompose, or burn.

When you add up both the absorption and emission, Canada's forests haven't been a net carbon sink since 2001. Due largely to forest fires and insect infestations, the trees have actually added to our country's greenhouse gas emissions for each of the past 15 years on record.

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In its 2017 revised submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the federal government indicated how it plans to re-evaluate its accounting of biomass.

"Canada is examining its approach to accounting in the land use, land-use change and forestry sector," the submission reads.

As part of this process, Canada will "exclude the impacts of natural disturbances and focus on anthropogenic emissions and removals."

In other words: Don't count our wildfires or the devastation from our pine beetles, but do count our forestry and farming practices.

This approach, Cameron says, would go a long way toward helping Canada meet its emission-reduction targets under the Paris Agreement.

"We are currently projected to fall 232 megatonnes short in 2030," he wrote last year. "By switching to one of the alternative accounting methodologies for emissions from land use, forestry and forest products allowed under the framework, Canada could narrow the gap — perhaps by as much as 63 or 126 megatonnes — even if our actual emissions don't change."

The bottom line is that our trees — along with our other, plentiful sources of biomass — could be part of the solution in meeting our international agreements on climate change, but that's more a question of accounting than of actual emissions.

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The lefties want people to think the world is ending and the government, and only the  government (not the states), can stop it.

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