For a pip squeak of a man, Rex roams around like a dinosaur. His latest in a long line of climate change denial stories has securely fossilized him into the annals of history. A la Michael Crichton, Rex says that global warming is based on “incomplete science and vastly overblown advocacy from the world's swarm of environmental lobbyists, NGOs, foundations, action groups, Greenpeace acrobats and UN politicians”. It is as if this super power lobby group is like a T-Rex ripping into a chicken. Rex mistakes the chicken as the carbon polluters - the oil, gas, and coal industries. If only these pip squeaks didn’t make tens of billions of profits to buy politicians and promote their propaganda. It is as if it is the environmental lobbyists who have trillions of dollars in investment at stake. 

Mad scientist Rex goes on to say that, “Carbon dioxide has increased, temperatures have not: The models did not predict that incongruity. This is, or may be, the church of global warming's Galileo moment....Galileo didn't work from consensus”. Rex forgets why it is called climate change. The final roar is when T-Rex tells Michael Ignatieff that, “Following the global-warming herd doesn't show courage – quite the opposite, in fact.”

It is as if Rex thinks he is the Green Giant giving a fireside chat to the kiddies on crack. The audience is supposed to get up and give this well decorated Shakespearean actor a standing ovation. But even kids know that no government in Canada, especially Harper’s Conservatives, is really taking climate change seriously. Governments are not taking a stand against the tar sand, the oil, the automotive, or the coal industry.

They are doing quite the opposite. The government herd is following fossil fuels and polluting cars. In fact these industries are still being bailed out and subsidized to the tune of billions. Everyone knows that Ignatieff will be like Chretien, all talk and no action. Heck Ignatieff will probably be working for the oil industry when his political career is over too. Any talk of green is just bad theatre. 

Perhaps it is time to dust off this old fossil.