Missing Kyoto


Looks like most of the EU will miss their Kyoto targets. Do you think any of them will sacrifice their economy to change that?
This isn't news.

Although the US is portrayed as the ecological villain for refusing to sign up to the agreement, 10 out of the 15 European Union signatories - including Ireland, Italy and Spain - will miss their targets without urgent action, the Institute for Public Policy Research found.

France, Greece and Germany are given "amber warnings" and will only achieve the objectives if planned policies are successfully carried out.

Tony Grayling, the institute's associate director, said the world was near the point of no return on climate change. "We have little time left to start reducing global greenhouse gas emissions before irreparable damage is done. It is vital that EU countries keep their promises to cut pollution. They must take action now to get back on the Kyoto track, including energy saving and investment in renewable energy."

EU countries would have to adopt tougher limits on emissions from power stations and heavy industry in the new year as part of the second phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, he said.

Not going to happen. Short answer, the EU economy depends on growth, and it can't afford to slow down.

I guess what bothers me here is the same assumption that the global warming advocates always try to cram down everyone's throat.

So here is the truth.

The Earth's climate changes, and not because of human action.

A few days ago I was reading up on the lost colony of Roanoke. One of the contributing factors was the worst drought in 400 years.

That happened without human industry emitting carbon dioxide.

Much of Northern Arizona used to be under a giant inland sea.

I can promise you it wasn't ski boat motors that changed that.

The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not a constant, it was constantly changing long before some bright hominid got the idea that fire could be useful.

Pollution in a river? Smokestacks belching black soot? Those we can deal with. Reducing carbon emissions based on some fuzzy computer models? Not practical, and certainly not worth the economic chaos it would cause. And most importantly, there is no way to measure it's impact on the global climate.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - December 27, 2005 at 04:59 AM  Tag


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