Prof. Andrew Weaver at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On November 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.

November 22nd, 2007 / 4:50 p.m.

Professor and Canada Research Chair, Atmosphere Science, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria

I'll answer that very quickly.

Of course carbon dioxide will increase, and it will continue to increase until Canada and the U.S. come up with the clean technologies that the rest of the world want to use. Frankly, why would you burn something that's polluting your air?

I don't know whether you've been to Beijing. Walk around there and breathe the air. They don't want to burn that, but they don't have the alternatives at hand right now. Therein lies the key.

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