Eyebrows were raised early in January 2010 when the B.C. government posted a tender for $25,000 that some lucky BC bid lottery winner could get to study the impact on the B.C. coast of a one meter rise in sea level by 2100 due to climate change.

Why one meter, though?  Why not seven meters, as claimed by Al Gore in his movie An Inconvenient Truth? After all, at Prince Rupert on B.C.'s north coast, the tide can rise up to 7.5 meters in 6 hours. Funnily enough, people have adapted to this rapid sea level rise without any government help.

Maybe one meter seemed more reasonable because the even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that Al Gore won the Nobel Prize with, claims sea level rise would be only between 9-19 inches 100 years from now.

But perhaps sanity is rising for a change, instead of sea level, or even eyebrows these days in B.C. because rather than funding some lobby group to promote its green agenda, the government has withdrawn the tender.

This is a welcome sign of less government spending just ahead of the government's Throne Speech. After all, the last thing the government should be doing now is using scarce tax dollars to fund lobby groups to create demand for more so-called 'green' spending.

By: Maureen Bader
Posted: January 30, 2010
Topic: British Columbia

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