Canadian here. Worked for the forestry service 10 years ago on a team building out software to measure forestry carbon impact in a time before our elected leade

Canadian here. Worked for the forestry service 10 years ago on a team building out software to measure forestry carbon impact in a time before our elected leaders strove to imitate the conservative south. (Broke our national census, fired the scientists, chilled various debates, made it harder to vote, pursued a punitive approach to crime and drugs, etc. . . . but I digress[0]) Your assumptions are the same as we had in our published model. In an organization that wanted to earn money by cutting trees, we considered it a source of carbon we had to offset. Once the trees were cut, we assumed it was released. [0] this is a 5 minute google search: http://www.leadnow.ca/elections-act/ http://www.leadnow.ca/elections-act/ Though our Conservative press may try to convince you our failure to get a seat on the UN security council doesn't imply our international reputation is eroding, their figures still show our tourism is down a third from 2005-2013, our immigration is down/flat, and we're half as likely to be Google searched. http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/has-harper-hurt-canadas-position-in-the-world/ http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/has-harper-hurt-canadas-po.... On top of that, Nader has called us out: "We used to look to Canada to hold up a higher standard. There was a propensity to wage peace and engage in peacemaking — I'm sorry to see this Conservative government mimic the U.S. policy of militarization," he said. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/19/ralph-nader-stephen-harp_n_6717824.html http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/19/ralph-nader-stephen-...? http://www.harperscrimes.ca/ http://www.harperscrimes.ca/