The moving deadline for B.C.乌鸦传媒檚 latest bold plan to control Earth乌鸦传媒檚 weather with taxes has slid from March into June.

Now that Premier Christy Clark has jetted back from her latest liquefied natural gas sales trip to Korea and Japan, brace yourself for the big reveal of Climate Action 2.0, as the second stage of B.C.乌鸦传媒檚 strategy has been termed.

The pending LNG industry is just one problem for this reality-challenged scheme to maintain B.C.乌鸦传媒檚 self-declared global climate leadership.

Clark乌鸦传媒檚 乌鸦传媒淐limate Leadership Team,乌鸦传媒� a mix of industry, academic, environmental and aboriginal representatives, was appointed a year ago to make recommendations for the next step. It concluded that B.C. isn乌鸦传媒檛 going to reach its 2020 emissions reduction target, even if the government implements the team乌鸦传媒檚 recommendation to resume steep increases in the carbon tax starting in 2018.

B.C.乌鸦传媒檚 carbon tax and its questionable 乌鸦传媒渃arbon neutral government乌鸦传媒� program have not reduced the province乌鸦传媒檚 greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. They乌鸦传媒檙e going up, and it doesn乌鸦传媒檛 take a rocket scientist to figure out why.

Tacking seven cents onto the price of a litre of gasoline may have had an effect at a time when fuel prices were high. That and a global recession actually did reduce B.C.乌鸦传媒檚 greenhouse gas emissions for a while.

Then Saudi Arabia decided to depress the world price of oil, cancelling any carbon tax effect for people driving up to the pumps in B.C. and stimulating fuel demand around the world.

Now our population and economic growth are rising again, along with carbon emissions. And LNG production and export can only add to that increase.

The urgency to create was so Clark could join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on a triumphant visit to Paris last winter to work out the latest international climate deal. Trudeau then started to let his own urgent climate crisis deadline slip back.

This routine has been going on since Jean Chr茅tien signed Canada up for its first fantasy target in Kyoto, Japan almost 20 years ago. And the prospects for Paris don乌鸦传媒檛 look much different.

Don乌鸦传媒檛 take my word for it. Nicholas Rivers, Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy at the University of Ottawa, wrote last week of the Paris deal: 乌鸦传媒淭hese targets essentially require that developed countries such as Canada completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or shortly after.乌鸦传媒�

乌鸦传媒淐ompletely eliminate.乌鸦传媒� Not only does that mean an end to the oil and gas industry, it means no more air travel, unless somebody comes up with a battery-powered airliner pretty soon.

Note that Rivers is describing the actions expected of developed countries. China has agreed that its steeply rising greenhouse gases will level off 乌鸦传媒渁round 2030,乌鸦传媒� according to the pathetically one-sided deal negotiated by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2014.

Trudeau has decided that provinces must find their own path to a carbon-free Utopia. Alberta has moved ahead with its own carbon tax, loaded onto the energy industry in the midst of a collapse. Its main effect will likely be to send the Alberta NDP back to the opposition benches.

Ontario is considering a ban on coal for power and natural gas for home heating, plus huge subsidies for electric cars. This should continue the upward spiral of electricity prices in that hapless, mismanaged province, which has already seen runaway subsidies to wind power and cancellation of gas-fired power plants.

Here in pre-election B.C., take everything you hear about healing the planet with a grain of salt.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc