Patterico's Pontifications

7/6/2005

Tell the Truth About Kyoto

Filed under: Dog Trainer,Environment — Patterico @ 12:19 am



I have no use for a front-page article like this one from the L.A. Times, which is a love letter to the Kyoto Protocol that manages to omit two salient facts:

1) Many nations — significantly including China and India — are exempt from compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. (No wonder they signed it.)

2) In 1997, the Senate voted 95-0 that the United States should not sign a treaty with the exact flaws that the Kyoto Protocol turned out to have.

My favorite line from the article:

In addition to economic concerns, Bush has rejected the pact because of objections to the way it divides emissions cutbacks between developed and undeveloped countries.

I guess that’s one way to characterize exempting 80 percent of the world from compliance. That’s like saying that, when you accuse me of stealing all your money, you’re really just objecting to the way that I have divided your money between the two of us.

7 Responses to “Tell the Truth About Kyoto”

  1. My wife & I have a Kyoto Marriage. She has to be faithful.

    /satire

    ras (f9de13)

  2. Even if everyone signed on and met the targets, it would result in a slowing of global warming by couple of percentage points versus projections, and that’s according to its proponents. That’s another piece of info you can rely on the press to leave out. Leaving it out, the reader might easily conclude that Kyoto would “solve” the problem.

    Basically, Kyoto is a faith-based treaty. You sign it to show you have the faith.

    Brian O'Connell (858f0c)

  3. Program on the emergence of civilization.

    “14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
    None from the sub-Saharan African continent.
    13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.”
    Favor.
    And disfavor.

    They point out Africans’ attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.

    The roots of racism are not of this earth.

    Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.

    The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.

    Organizational Heirarchy
    Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:

    1. MUCK – perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
    2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management –
    3. Mafia (evil) aliens – runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere (“On planets where they approved evil.”)

    Then we come to terrestrial management:

    4. Chinese/egyptians – this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
    5. Romans – they answer to the egyptians
    6. Mafia – the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
    7. Jews, corporation, women, politician – Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.

    Survival of the favored.

    Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
    1986 James Bond View to a Kill – 1989 San Fransisco Loma Prieta earthquake.

    Journal: 10 composition books + 39 megs of text files

    The roots of racism (9f3880)

  4. All the HOT AIR comes from the big fat pieholes of AL GORE and the nut cases at GREENPEACE

    krazy kagu (f63577)

  5. The kyoto promises nothing but income redistribrution. All the money the kyoto protocall makes in the world is going to go into africa to “help the poor” for no signifigant reason! I think Bush was right to not sign the kyoto protocall. The protocall would say that each man,woman,and child would owe the african scociety over $2700. I think that is just not fair to the rest of the world to pay for the wrong cause.

    kimmie nickerson (a00fe1)

  6. And I understand all of this even though I am 12 years old!! Is’nt that neat?

    kimmie nickerson (a00fe1)

  7. the apostolites of ir[us] rejected the treaty it was actually a kind of challange to the nation

    unni (4238b6)


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