Caught in their own proposals


The impact of global emission standards
I really got a kick out of the joke that James K. Glassman starts this article with.

There's a joke going around Montreal, site of this year's annual United Nations conclave on global warming. With all the smoke from those thousands of burning cars in the rioting suburbs, the French have now completely blown their targets for carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
 
The only way out is to buy emissions credits from the Russians for billions of euros. And when the French economy collapses under that bill, the riots will be worse than ever.
 
It's a joke, but reality comes very close. Europe, home of the most moralizing advocates of the Kyoto Protocol, which requires draconian cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2012, is failing -- by a wide margin -- to achieve those cuts.
 
The most recent report of the European Environment Agency says total GHG emissions are now actually rising. Friends of the Earth Europe, a Green group, called the numbers "shocking."

Aside from if global warming is actually a problem or if controlling emissions will prevent global warming, the article points out that in at least four countries, higher energy prices will result in recession.

I will point out that higher energy prices and recession will impact the poor most.

Progressive laws tend to be enforced against those least able to resist.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - December 6, 2005 at 05:19 AM  Tag


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