BS of the Day
Supporters of the Kyoto Protocol were gleeful on Saturday after Australian elections left the United States in the wilderness as the only major economy to boycott the UN’s climate pact.
The ouster of Prime Minister John Howard stripped President George W. Bush of a key ally barely a week before a conference in Bali, Indonesia, on the world’s response to climate change beyond 2012, they said.
“It’s great news for the Kyoto Protocol,” Shane Rattenburg, Greenpeace’s political director, told AFP.
“It’s a very important event in the international climate debate, and for Bali. It will leave Bush and the United States more isolated.”
Except that isn’t true. Canada is planning to back out of the treaty. Of course, they’re phrasing it in such a way as to suggest other non-treaty nations must join for Canada to stay. But he knows that’s not going to happen.
The treaty is worthless. Even the IPCC agrees it would have a negligible impact at best. But its effect on the economies of signatory nations is something else all together, which is why many of them have failed to meet their goals and have, instead used the hilarious “carbon offsets” argument.
So what’s the point? It seems to be yet another anti-capitalist scam designed to force rich nations to downscale their economies, which means, hindering corporate growth. And that means less jobs. Less revenue for everyone. What a deal!
Nature has a way of raining on parades. Record ice in Antarctica caused a cruise ship to sink the other day. I thought the ice was melting. Next thing you know, we’ll find out they lied about the sea levels rising.
Why do we have more free floating ice around Antarctca? Because more ice is getting shoved out to sea.
Why is more ice getting shoved out to sea? Because warmer temperatures means that Antarctic ice flows faster as more snow piles up in the interior, and the bottom of the glaciers and ice fields is lubricated by melt water.
The more energy you put into a system, the more that will occur within that system. This is why elementary school lunches concentrate on fats and complex carbohydrates; fuel for learning.
Posted by mythusmage on 11/25 at 11:54 PM“Except that isn’t true. Canada is planning to back out of the treaty. Of course, they’re phrasing it in such a way as to suggest other non-treaty nations must join for Canada to stay. But he knows that’s not going to happen.”
My goodness, you are such a lousy writer.
Posted by on 11/27 at 03:48 PM
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