If
Carbon Markets Can’t Work in Europe, Can They Work Anywhere?
Europe
has always been at the forefront of global climate policy. But its landmark
carbon market is on the brink of failure.
Read
more: European Union Kneecaps Carbon Cap and Trade System | TIME.com http://science.time.com/2013/04/17/if-carbon-markets-cant-work-in-europe-can-they-work-anywhere/#ixzz2jtqXJhEz
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Germany
Behind the Curve With Emissions-Based Vehicle Tax
Germany's
transportation minister is causing a stir with his proposal for an
emissions-based motor vehicle tax, while other EU countries are already seeing
the benefits of the tax they implemented long ago.
Time
will tell if vehicle tax reforms affect consumer buying habits
Transportation
Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee wants to "radically" reform the motor
vehicle tax in Germany by the end of the year by introducing a levy system
based not on the size of the vehicle but on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2)
and other dangerous emissions it produces.
Tiefensee's
proposal has been met with enthusiasm from across the political spectrum, an
indication that that it is long over-due.
CO2
tax nothing new
Tiefensee's plans brings the transport sector
to the emissions negotiation table for the first time
Indeed,
Germany is far from playing the trend-setter in creating greener tax policies.
Nine EU countries currently have a registration fee or motor vehicle tax
contingent on CO2 emissions, according to the Association of European
Car-Makers.
Austria,
the Netherlands and Portugal reward owners of environmentally friendly cars
with sliding registration fees. In Denmark, Sweden and Great Britain, the
vehicle tax is determined by the level of CO2 emissions.
Car-owners
with low-emission vehicles are given break on both the one-time registration
fee and the annual vehicle tax in Belgium, France and Cyprus.
In
Great Britain, owners of vehicles that emit less that 100 grams of CO2 per
kilometer pay no tax at all, whereas the annual rate for diesel vehicles
emitting more than 225 grams per kilometer is a hefty 320 euros ($421). France
has a similar system for company cars.
In
Sweden, drivers pay 1.62 euros for every gram of CO2 over 100 grams per
kilometer that their vehicle emits.
Reaping
the benefits
Will the US be the next to reward drivers for
choosing planet-friendly vehicles?
"Changing
the tax in England has already had an effect on which new cars people
buy," said Uwe Kunert, transportation expert from the German Institute for
Economic Research. Sweden is experiencing the same effect.
In
the Netherlands, tax revenues fell so dramatically that the government had to
alter the tax reforms. Kunert is cautious not to count any chickens before they
hatch, however.
"It's
still difficult for most countries," he said. "There's hasn't been
any overwhelming successes yet."
The
price tag on the planet
In
Germany, the success of reforms will depend on the affordability of
environmentally friendly motors.
Low-emission
models like Volkswagen three-liter Lupo disappeared from the market because
they were too expensive -- but also because not enough advertising was done.
Instead, German carmakers tend to advertise the massive gas-guzzlers, many of
which are produced domestically.
As
far as environmentally-friendly automobiles are concerned, the foreign
competition is leagues ahead of the German carmakers. According to the German
Association for Environmental and Natural Protection (BUND), German auto
producers will have to reduce CO2 emissions by seven grams to fulfill the EU
requirements by 2012, French producers by only three grams.
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US
energy cost disadvantage worries EU
The
European Commission has said its European Union nations will be left far behind
the United States unless they address high energy costs that are worsening the
continent’s industrial decline.
EU
sources said to tackle the issue the EC, the EU’s executive body, is preparing
a policy document for later this year followed by an EU summit in February 2014
focused on industry.
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it's
all about the economy.... period..... jobs....
Germany
tables new EU emission rules to protect auto industry
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Airline
Carbon Tax: US Fights, EU Postpones, Environmentalists Worry
By
Mark Johanson
on
November 14 2012 2:13 PM
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top pollunting countries on the planet- Notice Canada with only 36 Million does NOT count -o-NASA-MAP-900
DARK BROWN IS THE SERIOUS ABUSE OF GAS EMISSION GLOBALLY- NOTE CANADA HAS ALMOST NOTHING IN THE WORLD- when Russia, China, Japan, USA and India sign a UN Environment agreement... then... so... will... Canada
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Terence
Corcoran: More myths about carbon taxes
From
B..C. to Germany, the war on carbon is creating a 'chaotic landscape' indeed
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India's
corporate giants still lukewarm on carbon disclosure
Source:
Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 7 Oct 2013 01:43 PM
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Peter
Foster | 31/10/13 7:30 PM ET
More
from Peter Foster
.
Peter
Foster: Canada scores own goal on carbon targets
Ottawa
admits 2020 emissions targets will not be met. But Canada is far too small to
matter
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UN
slams Canada for poor climate change record
By
William Marsden, Postmedia News
The
authors of a new report on carbon emissions say Canada is on track to exceed
its 2020 target of 607 megatonnes by slightly more than 110 megatonnes or about
20 per cent.
Photograph
by: AFP PHOTO/Paul J. RICHARDS ,
Postmedia News
WASHINGTON
— As nations continue to increase their carbon emissions, pumping billions of
tonnes into the atmosphere, the world is unlikely to meet its target of keeping
temperature rises below the critical 2-C
by 2020, a new UN report says.
Failure
to meet emission pledges will increase the cost and difficulty of avoiding
catastrophic climate change, the report states.
The
most recent figures indicate that emissions are already 14 per cent higher than
what is required to keep global average temperatures from rising above 2 C.
The
authors expressed confidence that if countries aggressively reduce fossil fuel
consumption they can still meet their pledges by 2020 with minimum cost.
Jennifer
Morgan, a co-author of the report, noted in a conference call that for every
dollar invested in renewable energy, the global community subsidizes fossil
fuels to about five dollars.
“If
the emissions gap is not closed, or significantly narrowed, by 2020, the door
to many options limiting the temperature increase … will be closed,” the report
states.
The
authors picked out Canada as a lead laggard. Canada is on track to exceed its
2020 target of 607 megatonnes by slightly more than 110 megatonnes or about 20
per cent, according to its own reports. (A megatonne is a million tonnes.)
“So
it is significantly off track right now,” Taryn Fransen, another report author,
said.
Morgan
added, “Canada doesn’t seem to fully grasp the risk that climate change poses
to it and its people in its approach to climate change.”
Fransen
noted that Canada’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
published a report in 2012 that concluded there is still time for Canada to
meet its commitments without disrupting its economy if it moves aggressively.
The
NRTEE was created in 1988 to advise the federal government on sustainable
development. The Conservative government of Stephen Harper, which has
aggressively promoted the expansion of the nation’s largest emitter, the
oilsands, defunded the NRTEE this year.
The
Harper government has claimed that Canada’s overall emissions of about two per
cent are insignificant in a global perspective.
Morgan
noted, however, that the Copenhagen treaty requires that industrialized
countries take the lead in emission reductions, which Canada is not doing.
“It
is very important that countries like Canada meet its targets not only for
atmospheric reasons – I mean the need to reduce emissions in the atmosphere –
but also because of the signal that it sends to others,” Morgan said. “Canada
is a wealthy country. It certainly has the resources to do it.”
The
fourth annual Emission Gap Report, published by the United Nations Environment
Program and the World Resources Institute, says the gap between national
pledges and what the world is on track to emit in 2020 has widened by about one gigatonne, or a billion
tonnes, compared with last year.
Like
Canada, the United States, Japan and Mexico are also on track to miss their
targets. Unlike Canada, however, both the United States and Mexico are
ratcheting up action on climate change. The authors noted that Mexico not only
has more ambitious targets than Canada or the U.S., it is also in the process
of enacting legislation to achieve those targets.
U.S.
President Barack Obama last week signed an executive order that compels all
branches of government to initiate national policies and regulations that will
lead to reduced emissions throughout the economy and put the U.S. on track to
meet its commitments.
Canada
has tied its pledges to those of the U.S., which are to reduce emissions 17 per
cent below 2005 levels by 2020. The authors expressed hope that Canada will
follow Obama’s new and more stringent policy moves.
The
report notes that the European Union – particularly Germany – China, India, the
Russian Federation and Australia appear to be on track to meet their pledges.
Australia’s ambitions, however, are low and allow it to continue to increase
emissions.
The
global average surface temperature rise is approaching one per cent. The report
notes that even if all pledges are met they will fall short of stopping global
temperatures from exceeding the critical 2-C mark. Much greater reductions of
55 per cent below 2010 levels will be required by 2050, the report states.
wmarsden@postmedia.com
Air
Pollution Deaths: NASA Map Illustrates Where Fine Particle Matter Is The Most Deadly
1.
China
2.
USA
3.
India
4. Russia
5.
Japan
6.
Germany
7.
South Korea
8.
Canada
9.
Indonesia
10.
United Kingdom
Air
Pollution Deaths: NASA Map Illustrates Where Fine Particle Matter Is The Most
Deadly
The
results may not be surprising; the darkest brown spots cover regions in Asia.
China's heavy pollution remains a hot topic, and a recent study linked air
pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern regions of the
country.
The
map pulls from research conducted by Jason West, an assistant professor of
environmental sciences at the University of North Carolina. In a study
published in Environmental Research letters, West estimated that 2.1 million
deaths each year are linked to this specific type of air pollution.
Also
known as particle pollution, fine particulate matter is composed of a mixture
of ingredients, such as acids and dust particles. According to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, the size of the particles inhaled is directly
linked to their potential for spurring health problems. "Fine
particles," which are 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller, are the most
dangerous since the tiniest particles are more likely to enter the lungs
through the throat and nose.
This
week, West recommended one way millions of premature deaths could be prevented.
Using a model that simulates the interaction between mortality and air
pollutants, West and his team determined that reducing greenhouse gas emissions
could lead to an overall reduction in pollutants, and thus decrease the
likelihood of untimely deaths due to air pollution like fine particle matter.
(Hat
tip, Raw Story)
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UN:
CO2 pollution levels at annual record high
Associated
PressBy JOHN HEILPRIN | Associated Press – 26 mins ago.
1.
China
2.
USA
3.
India
4.
Russia
5.
Japan
6.
Germany
7.
Iran
8.
Korea
9:
Canada
10.
Saudi Arabia
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THAT'S
WHY CANADA KEPT POTASH...
Wheat
rice output stagnating Scientists
North
America News.Net - Wednesday 19th December, 2012
A
wilting Green Revolution is adversely affecting grain output in China and
India, warn US and Canadian scientists, adding that output of crops meant to
feed animals or provide car fuel seems to be ...
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imho
7
BILLION PEOPLE NEED 2 STEP UP AND EACH PAY $$$ 4 ENVIRONMENT DISASTERS- not
iddy biddy 36 million people of Canada, Aussies, New Zealand- come on folks-
clean up ur own messes
When
each and every country steps up and pays their $$$$ according 2 their
populaltion - regardless then Canada should tentatively step up with $$$$ only
if proven and not $$richfolks fancy meetings with not a damm thing done.....
PAKISTAN, INDIA, AFRICAS.... ASIAS... THESE COUNTRIES AND MUSLIM NATIONS MUST
NOW $$$$$$ ..... the USA and China have
created a Global financial nightmare 4 everyday folks and the bankers etc.
walked away free and clean.... as well as the billionaires and millionaires....
...
there are just 2 many poor folks and folks just trying 2 get by and get our
kids raised right 2 get caught up in the incredible wasteland of $$$
environmental bullshit and beans that isn't boots 2 the ground..... and
Greepeace needs 2 stop invading nations with their terror tactics and us
everyday folks paying 4 their destructive ways..... enough!
Canada
is the 2nd largest country on this planet with the greatest natural resources
with an iddy biddy 36 million of 7 BILLION PEOPLE folks..... back off....
7
BILLION PEOPLE???? ENVIRONMENT???- come on over population is killing this
planet.... we said this in the 70s.... never dreaming that in 2013 there would
be 7 BILLION PEOPLE!!!....
Canadians
will not be sucked in2 Koyoto ever again.... JAPAN, USA, CHINA WON'T SIGN....
and u think Canada Aussies and New Zealand should pay 4 India, Pakistan and
Africas, Asias huge population overlaod on environment disasters???? oh please...
We
want our own oil that's not on the blood of innocent muslims being butchered
every darn day by muslim heretics who hate everything and everyone period- yet
United Nations bows 2 this terror trash??? Come on.
United
Nations $$$$ committees in their rich luxury lifestyles are not who we need 2
rely on.... it't the folks in the communities that actually do the world and
put in the time.... look around your communities folks... at beautiful nature's
ways that oldies have given and saved 4 you.... and develop lifestyles that
everyday folks can live with and enjoy the small time we have on our planet...
BUT
7 BILLION PEOPLE- there is no way
smaller populated countries should be dumping $$$$$$ taxdollars without end
results and accountability and each and every nation on board... right...
And
USA environs and Europeans..... clean up your own messes before u stomp on
Canada's soil telling 36 million Canadians how 2 git r done..... seriously...
just saying....imho
New
UN Report: Climate Change Inaction Must End
A
Commentary By Christoph Seidler
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FACT
HIGHEST
GLOBAL ENERGY USERS... we.... are ...
way down at No. 8????
1.
China
2.
United States
3.
Russia
4.
India
5.
Japan
6.
Germany
7.
France
8.
Canada
WHY
HAVEN'T UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, CHINA, INDIA AND JAPAN SIGNED KOYOTO?... THEN ?
SHD CANADA?...
Why
Didn't the U.S. Sign the Kyoto Treaty? Why Didn't Russia? Why Didn't China? Why
Didn't Japan?
and...
HOW MUCH $$$$$ HAVE UN WASTED WITH THEIR RICH
AND FANCY MEETINGS...
Won't
someone think of the summits? Kyoto failures could threaten global climate
posturing
Kelly
McParland: UN summits where delegates waste untold resources in fruitless
discussions are seriously endangered by failures to contain greenhouse gases
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POSTED/POSTED
UNITED
NATIONS:-Environment u????- 7 BILLION PEOPLE are destroying our planet- all
nations must pay and $$$ participate not just country with 36 Million iddy
biddy population- u can't even make women equal in 2013- seriously??
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HEY
UNITED NATIONS- JAPAN, CHINA, USA AND
RUSSIA- TOLD U TO BLOW UR EMISSIONS $$$GRAB OUT UR ARSE..... SO DON'T COME 2
CANADA.... while Canadians look hopelessly at the 7 BILLION POPULATION 2 Canada's iddy biddy 36 MILLION???? - AND
INDIA AND PAKISTAN AND AFRICAS AND ASIAS NOT GIVING ONE $$$$ - no more... no more
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Whoa
cowboys..... New Zealand is the first
(November) to pull out 4 obvious
reasons- USA/RUSSIA/CHINA/INDIA/JAPAN
ALL REFUSE TO SIGN KYOTO- and they are the largest energy users on the
planet.... seriously???
Canada
will officially become the first country to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
climate change (AFTER NEW ZEALAND and
big nations refuse to have anything to do with Kyoto- USA, Russia China, India,
Japan etc. etc. etc. AND OTHERS)
agreement Saturday, following years of criticism from the Harper government and
lobbying from major industrial polluters.
It’s
official: Harper government withdraws from Kyoto climate agreement
AND...HERE'S....WHY...
The
final flaw, and the one that caused the most issue was the fact that developing
countries were not required whatsoever to reduce their emissions, giving them
what many developed countries saw as an economic advantage.
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AND
USA- NEEDS TO START CLEANING UP THEIR DOORSTEPS 2- in fact we all need to let the Muslims deal
with Muslim countries now- and aid etc.
- where they own the world's oil and most evil newage muslim natzi
killers of muslim women and babies....it's time... imho
U.S.
National Debt Clock May 2013
An
Overview of the United States National Debt
The
Current Outstanding Public Debt of the United States is:
$16,795,552,390,198.40
Last
Updated: May 10th, 2013
Every
man, woman and child in the United States currently owes $53,341.16 for their
share of the U.S. public debt
Public
Debt: $11,917,157,774,325.76
Intragovernmental
Holdings: $4,878,394,615,872.64
Total
U.S. National Debt: $16,795,552,390,198.40
Question:
Who owns the public debt?
Answer:
Mutual funds, pension funds, foreign governments, foreign investors, American
investors, etc.
Which
Foreign governments own the most U.S. debt?
Answer:
Here is the Top 10 (as of Feb/2013)
1.
China, Mainland, $1222.9 billion dollars
2.
Japan, $1097.1 billion dollars
3.
Carib Bnkng Ctrs**, $286.7 billion dollars
4.
Brazil, $260.0 billion dollars
5.
Oil Exporters*, $257.2 billion dollars
6.
All Other, $238.9 billion dollars
7.
Taiwan, $188.2 billion dollars
8.
Switzerland, $185.8 billion dollars
9.
Belgium, $184.9 billion dollars
10.
Russia, $162.1 billion dollars
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Whoa
cowboys..... New Zealand is the first
(November) to pull out 4 obvious
reasons- USA/RUSSIA/CHINA/INDIA/JAPAN
ALL REFUSE TO SIGN KYOTO- and they are the largest energy users on the
planet.... seriously???
Canada
will officially become the first country to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
climate change (AFTER NEW ZEALAND and
big nations refuse to have anything to do with Kyoto- USA, Russia China, India,
Japan etc. etc. etc. AND OTHERS)
agreement Saturday, following years of criticism from the Harper government and
lobbying from major industrial polluters.
It’s
official: Harper government withdraws from Kyoto climate agreement
AND...HERE'S....WHY...
The
final flaw, and the one that caused the most issue was the fact that developing
countries were not required whatsoever to reduce their emissions, giving them
what many developed countries saw as an economic advantage.
HIGHEST
GLOBAL ENERGY USERS... we.... are ...
way down at No. 8????
1.
China
2.
United States
3.
Russia
4.
India
5.
Japan
6.
Germany
7.
France
8.
Canada
WHY
HAVEN'T UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, CHINA, INDIA AND JAPAN SIGNED KOYOTO?... THEN ?
SHD CANADA?...
Why
Didn't the U.S. Sign the Kyoto Treaty? Why Didn't Russia? Why Didn't China? Why
Didn't Japan?
and...
HOW MUCH $$$$$ HAVE UN WASTED WITH THEIR RICH
AND FANCY MEETINGS...
Won't
someone think of the summits? Kyoto failures could threaten global climate
posturing
Kelly
McParland: UN summits where delegates waste untold resources in fruitless
discussions are seriously endangered by failures to contain greenhouse gases
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can
u imagine our canada paying 4 all these energy abusers when Canada- population
only 36 million uses less than 2% energy on the planet????
It’s
All Over: Kyoto Protocol Loses Four Big Nations
Posted
on May 29, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Image:
Sierra Club Compass
Saturday,
28 May 2011 16:58 Agence France-Presse
DEAUVILLE,
France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round
of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and
the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty, European diplomats have
said.
The
future of the Kyoto Protocol has become central to efforts to negotiate
reductions of carbon emissions under the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate
Change, whose annual meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa, from
November 28 to December 9.
Developed
countries signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. They agreed to legally binding
commitments on curbing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
Those
pledges expire at the end of next year. Developing countries say a second round
is essential to secure global agreements.
But
the leaders of Russian, Japan and Canada confirmed they would not join a new
Kyoto agreement, the diplomats said.
They
argued that the Kyoto format did not require developing countries, including
China, the world’s No. 1 carbon emitter, to make targeted emission cuts.
At
last Thursday’s G8 dinner the US President, Barack Obama, confirmed Washington
would not join an updated Kyoto Protocol, the diplomats said.
The
US, the second-largest carbon emitter, signed the protocol in 1997 but in 2001
the then president, George W. Bush, said he would not put it to the Senate for
ratification.
Agence
France-Press, 29 May 2011
AND...
KYOTO- WHY SHOULD CANADA SIGN- WHEN THE BIGGEST ABUSERS REFUSE??
Why
won't USA SIGN KYOTO? as well as -
RUSSIA, CHINA, JAPAN ETC?
Nowitzki
They
are only thinking of national benefits.
In 2008, total global output was 24.1 billion
tons, of which the United States accounted for 19.2%, China 22.1%, the EU 13%,
Russia 5.5%, and Japan 4.0%
In United States 18.6 ton per caput, China 4.9
ton, Germany 9.4 ton, Russia 11.4 ton , and Japan 9.3 ton.
EU and Japan are hard to reduce CO2 by a large
margin to advance energy-conservation technology .
.
Without US and China, That would be pointless.
When all is said and done, isn't it the United
States-which vaunts itself as the most "morally righteous" nation in
the world and stands in judgment over other nations-which is actually the most
morally irresponsible nation in the world?
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Not
all countries of the world signed the Kyoto Protocol. The countries that did
sign it together account for 55% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
However, the country that emits the most greenhouse gases, the United States,
did not agreed to sign the Kyoto Protocol. In 2001, United States President
George W. Bush decided that the US would not participate. Large developing
countries such as India, China, and Brazil are not required to make changes
either.
Why
won't USA SIGN KYOTO?
Nowitzki
They
are only thinking of national benefits.
In 2008, total global output was 24.1 billion
tons, of which the United States accounted for 19.2%, China 22.1%, the EU 13%,
Russia 5.5%, and Japan 4.0%
In United States 18.6 ton per caput, China 4.9
ton, Germany 9.4 ton, Russia 11.4 ton , and Japan 9.3 ton.
EU and Japan are hard to reduce CO2 by a large
margin to advance energy-conservation technology .
.
Without US and China, That would be pointless.
When all is said and done, isn't it the United
States-which vaunts itself as the most "morally righteous" nation in
the world and stands in judgment over other nations-which is actually the most
morally irresponsible nation in the world?
AND...
The
US cannot sign the Kyoto protocol or anything similar. There is a piece of Law
expressly forbidding it... the Byrd-Hagel Resolution.
Signing
the treaty does not mean that a country commits to making any reductions in
emissions. If a country 'signs' the agreement then they agree to provide annual
reports of their emissions... no more than that.
Only if a country has signed the treaty AND
signed Annex I do they commit to making any reductions. Of the 191 countries
that have signed the treaty only 39 have committed to attempting any emissions
reduction under the provisions of Annex I.
A country can sign the Treaty but not sign
Annex I. For example, China and India have both signed the Treaty, but neither
has signed Annex I. They are therefore not committed to making any emission
reductions.
AND...
1)
The whole world did not sign it
2) Wikipedia is not a reliable source for
*anything*, but especially not for anything political...and AGW is highly
political
3) AGW is a fraud...the science is terrible
4) The cost of limiting carbon emissions would
have been astronomical...$2280 trillion over the next 90 yrs by the latest
study... maybe 10x more according to ex EPA economist Alan Carlin
5) It wouldn't do any good anyway, CO2 doesn't
drive the climate
"You could go outside and spit and have
the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide" -Dr. Reid Bryson, the most
cited climate scientist in the world
AND...
Warmists
cannot understand decisions like these because they think actually think AGW is
about having a good environment. (and they call deniers dumb)
The Kyoto protocol is literally about giving
Global Socialists the power to steal from American industry.
It's international Cap & Trade - a
methodology to separate the profits from anyone using/selling fossil fuels.
Canada has recently withdrawn as the
development of their Oil Sands promised vast profits for the Kyoto Yakuza
Yahoos to steal. Canadian are mostly OK with Americans being fiscally raped,
but a lot more reluctant to grab their own ankles in the name of Carbon
control.
Ok, fine I'm a lying Republican Earth hating
denier hopelessly corrupted by greed...
So why didn't those shining beacons of
environmental compassion know as Obama & the Democrats sign in when they
had complete control of America's Government? Wasn't Obama going to stop the
Oceans rise?
Makes no sense environmentally right? Is Obama
is retarded? Is he a closet Republican?
Absolutely not.
You see Obama IS a Socialist & all for
Socialists robbing businessmen, just not for International Socialists robbing
HIS businessmen. Understand?
American Capitalists must of course hand over
their profits to atone for the sin personal success, but those profits must buy
Democrat votes from the Occupy Wall Street parasites here at home - they don't
do Obama a damn bit of good planting carbon credit trees in Africa.
Hope this clears things up for you.
AND..
COMMENT:
You
do realize that Canada just pulled out of the Kyoto treaty so they would not be
punished for failure to meet emission levels even when they only contribute 2%
of all green house gases. You also do realize that a lot of the information
coming from the AGW crowd is just hilarious. I was listening off and on to
Democracy NOW during the latest talks and one of the things that I found funny
is that sea levels will magically raise by a meter in the next 60 years. Our
current sea level rise is between 2 to 4 mm from 1 to 3 mm a year. To raise a
full meter in 60 years we will have to have sea level rise average a little
over 16 mm a year which is 4 times the current rate. You do also realize that
the poorest of the poor Nations are looking for permanent handouts instead of
hand ups
AND..
Because
we are smarter than those idiots that signed it and are now trying to back out
of it. Because it's a costly, economy destroying, useless, sovereignty
threatening, con-game.
But I believe --- and I'm not taking time to
look it up --- but I think Bill Clinton actually DID sign it. But it means
nothing without Senate approval. Thank Goodness.
Why do you want to give taxpayer's money away
to a bunch of socialist/commies?
I take it Mohan that you trust that hate-America
club called the U.N. --- Do you remember "Oil for Food" --- I'll tell
you there is more love for America in the Kremlin than in that pit of hissing
snakes called the U.N..
Watch these and learn something:
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Global
Warming Doomsday Called Off
AND...
Because
we are not stupid enough to further cripple our economy.
Some economist predicted the current global
recesison based on provisions in the Kyoto protocol. Looks like they were
right.
Because Kyoto added restrictions to us but
left some of our primary economic compeditors out of any restrictions. this
would have driven ADDITIONAL jobs from our country. Weakened our economy
further and generally wreaked havoc.
Because ANY treaty structured as Kyoto was
will create more human misery without ANY measureable benefits to show for it.
AND..
China
did not sign on to it and think how much more money they have on account of it.
A lot of the countries now see that it was a money making racket by the UN and
are pulling out.
AND...
COMMENT:
Because
it was political BS that didn't accomplish anything, like limit China. The
Canadians are pulling out now, we just had a little more foresight.
AND..
What
good is it? China and India are not even part of it. So why should the US be
apart of it. Is the government in Canada that slow they can not see how poor
this thing is?
AND..
For
a lot of reasons, one of which is that it allows the creation of an UNEVEN
playing field whereby other countries do NOT have to adhere to the same
environmental standards as we would have to. What, so their pollution is not as
"bad" as ours? Did you ever voluntarily go into a fight (physical or
economic) with one hand tied behind your back?
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why
won't Russia sign Koyto?
Russia
Won’t Renew Kyoto Protocol
Date:
01/01/13
Voice
of Russia
Russia
will not renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol.
Moscow
won’t join the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol, which starts on January 1st
2013.
Russia
decided to discontinue its participation in the protocol because the world’s
major producers of greenhouse gases – the United States, China and India – are
still refusing to commit themselves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Because
of that, Russian leaders say, the Kyoto Protocol, which came into force seven
years ago, had no impact on the rate of global warming.
Voice
of Russia, 31 December 2013
Ukraine,
Belarus May Join Russia to Shun Kyoto
Ukraine
may join Russia in shunning the extended Kyoto Protocol after United Nations
envoys approved a text the two nations didn’t agree with, according to the
Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
Ukraine,
the eastern European nation located in the natural-gas trading corridor between
the EU and Russia, is listed in a Dec. 8 text outlining the conclusions of
climate talks held in Doha as agreeing to cut its emissions by 20 percent of
1990 levels by 2020. They had already fallen by 60 percent in 2010, according
to data published by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn on
Nov. 16.
Another
section of the Doha text would cancel any surplus sovereign emissions permits
for the eight years through 2020 above the average annual emissions of the
country in the three years through 2010. That clause may in effect require
Ukraine, Belarus and other nations outside the EU while joining Kyoto to take a
smaller cap, according to Norton Rose LLP. Russia has said it won’t join
Kyoto’s extension. Regulatory uncertainty drove UN offset prices to record lows
this week.
“Ukraine
and Belarus are less likely to ratify the second commitment period of the Kyoto
Protocol” because they object to the text, Andrei Marcu, senior adviser to the
Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, said yesterday in a report on
the Doha talks. CEPS advises on government policy.
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CANADA
Kyoto
good as dead...and Harper was right to kill it
By Lorrie Goldstein ,Toronto Sun
Tuesday,
January 01, 2013 11:06 AM MST
Stephen
Harper Stephen Harper. (ANDRE FORGET/QMI AGENCY)
As
of today, the Kyoto protocol is a zombie treaty.
It's
a corpse that keeps moving, but it's dead.
Kyoto
died Monday at midnight when the greenhouse gas cuts it set for 37
industrialized nations between 2008 and 2012 expired.
But,
just like the walking dead, it rose from the grave Tuesday because 195
countries at a UN conference in Doha, Qatar last month agreed to pretend it's
still alive.
They
"extended" Kyoto, pending the ratification of a new treaty by 2015,
to take effect in 2020.
In
other words, they kicked the zombie down the road for a few more years, while
agreeing to maintain the fiction among themselves that Kyoto is a
"global" emissions treaty, when it actually covers only 15% of global
emissions.
Indeed,
because Kyoto made no demands on the developing world, where emissions are
rising the fastest, global emissions increased throughout the period covered by
the treaty.
Canada
withdrew from Kyoto last month, having given its obligatory one-year notice
last December.
In
doing so, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives finally corrected
the huge and reckless blunder Jean Chretien and the Liberals committed by
signing on to Kyoto in 1998.
How
Chretien, as the leader of a large, cold, northern, oil-exporting country,
could have committed Canada to an emissions treaty that excluded the U.S. and
required nothing of China, defies explanation to this day.
Even
Chretien's top political aide, Eddie Goldenberg, has since admitted that when
the Liberals signed Kyoto, they knew they couldn't implement its target of
cutting our emissions by an average of 6% below 1990 levels between 2008 and
2012.
The
proof of that lies in the fact that by the time the Liberals were tossed from
power in 2006, Canada's emissions were 30% above the Kyoto target to which
Chretien had agreed.
That
meant the new Conservative government would have had to wreck the Canadian
economy to achieve Chretien's unattainable goal.
Harper
finally stopped paying lip service to this ridiculous idea a year ago, when
Environment Minister Peter Kent announced Canada was withdrawing from Kyoto.
That
was the first sensible thing a Canadian government had done on this issue in 13
years.
While
Canada continues to participate in negotiations to craft a new global emissions
treaty, the danger is that all the problems that made Kyoto such a disaster remain
in place.
It
still makes no sense for Canada to agree to any international treaty to reduce
its emissions unless the U.S. and China are on board.
And
it still makes no sense for Canada to contribute billions of dollars to help
developing nations reduce their emissions, unless those nations first commit to
lowering their emissions.
In
the real world, which rarely intrudes into political discussions about Kyoto,
no significant reduction in global greenhouse gases can begin until China and
the U.S., the world's two top emitters, dramatically reduce their reliance on
coal to produce electricity.
By
comparison, the development of Canada's oil sands is insignificant.
The
oil sands represent about one-tenth of 1% of global emissions and Canada, as a
whole, produces 2% of global emissions, compared to 21% for China and 19% for
the U.S.
Given
that reality, we simply can't afford to be as stupid on this issue as Chretien
was, ever again.
Goldstein:
As of today, the Kyoto protocol is a zombie treaty. It's a corpse that keeps
moving, but it's dead. Kyoto died Monday at midnight when the greenhouse gas
cuts it set for 37 industrialized nations between 2008 and 2012 expired.
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UNITED
NATIONS IS USELESS AS TITTIES ON A BULL- UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL A DISGRACE and
shames the world...
-
KYOTO PROTOCALL useless without USA, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, Japan...
move on
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RUSSIA
LOSES 60,000 KIDS AND YOUTH 2 DRUGS A YEAR....
ATTACKING A COUNTRY'S BOATS AND VESSELS IS ONE THING... BUT... DRUGS....
OMG.... ya all should have known better... seriously...
We
know how much Greenpeace and hardcore environmentalists hate children and think
that 6 billion of the 7 billion people on the planet should be destroyed
..hardcore
environmentalists.... that's my problem with ur spoilt, $$$rich daddy
lifestyles whilst everday folks just try 2 get by... and actually work their
environments on their home countries...
...
but this PLAY, DESTROY, REGROUP AND ATTACK AGAIN AT THE EXPENSE OF COURTIES
$$TAXPAYERS.... by Greenpeace and such... must stop.... ur $$$ lifestyles of
hit and run from country 2 country are just ignorant in this day and age... as
we watch 5.5 million women and kids raped an murdered in the Congo.... billions
starving whilst heretic muslims kill innocent muslims... as the United
Nations... chats by the fireside.....
Good
luck 2 ya... ur going 2 need it. THE PUSSY RIOT - shows that Russia will NOT
tolerate bullshit...on Russian soil....
Back to the U.S.S.R.
An open letter by a jailed member of the punk
group Pussy Riot hearkens to the ugly days of the Soviet Gulags.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova details her hard life
in prison No. 14 in the Russian region of Mordovia. She began a hunger strike
on Sept. 23 to protest conditions, which include working from 7:30 a.m. until
after midnight sewing police uniforms. “In the best-case scenario, we get four
hours of sleep per night,” writes Tolokonnikova, who is serving a two-year
sentence for hooliganism for her part in a performance in Moscow’s largest
cathedral, where the group called on the Virgin Mary to “kick out” President
Vladimir Putin. She described a veiled death threat from a prison official, and
wrote that women are beaten and inmates are forced outdoors in the winter.
Russia
says drugs found on Greenpeace ship, plans new charges
Source:
Reuters - Wed, 9 Oct 2013 03:27 PM
Author:
Reuters
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FREDERICTON,
NEW BRUNSIWICK
IDLE
NO FRACKING MORE BABY- 10,000 years of AMERICAS FIRST PEOPLES- Australia is in
a mess... Peru and so many Latin countries... Asias... and now UK is going at
it??? America ... and our Canada.... just look at our rivers, our water, our
meadows...our nature animals who allow us 2 exist...
TEXAS-NO FRACKING WAY! Energy is all about us!
Elsipogtog Chief issues eviction notice to
Texas-based frackers. Band Council Resolution to reclaim all unoccupied Crown
Land.
From warriorpublications.files.wordpress.com
and...
OH
EZRA....seriously.... my father's family came to Placentia Bay, Newfoundland in
1632 as fishers... and our Canada is just awesome... however, without the First
Peoples of Canada fighting by our side- CANADA WOULD NOW BE THE USA....
Ezra!!!!- CHECK THE FACTS- history
October 4, 1997 , in a landmark decision, a
New Brunswick court ruled that aboriginals own the crown lands and forests of
New Brunswick.
Ideas have consequences: You can’t tell
someone they live in a “nation” without them one day believing you
Again, this is understandable. For more than a
century, Natives have had to live under the racialist Indian Act, that actually
served as the model for South Africa’s apartheid. Apartheid is gone, but
Canada’s Indian Act endures.
If an Indian Act that treats Indians as legal
inferiors — no property rights, fewer democratic rights — is legitimate, why
can’t the opposite be acceptable? If liberal politicians can rationalize the
Indian Act, why can’t Indian reactionaries rationalize a Settler Act, by which
non-aboriginals are denied rights to land?
Ezra Levant_op
By Ezra Levant ,QMI Agency
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Greenpeace
and Suzuki- from saviours 2 despots and
thieves.... it's all about Gay Pride and Media Attention....at all costs....
they want 6 and 1/2 BILLION children and
women wiped from the planet??? ewww....
The
two Suzukis: There’s Saint Suzuki, the one you see on CBC, and Secret Suzuki,
the capitalist millionaire
AND..
Ex-Greenpeace
president says group’s opposition to genetically-modified Golden Rice costing
thousands of lives
Brian
Hutchinson | 11/10/13 | Last Updated: 11/10/13 7:41 PM ET
More
from Brian Hutchinson | @hutchwriter
.
Patrick
Moore stands near Greenpeace's ship 'Rainbow Warrior' in North Vancouver on
Oct. 11, 2013. The former Greenpeace stalwart now dismisses the group as
“ultra-leftists.”
Ben
Nelms for National PostPatrick Moore stands near Greenpeace's ship 'Rainbow
Warrior' in North Vancouver on Oct. 11, 2013. The former Greenpeace stalwart
now dismisses the group as “ultra-leftists.”.
NORTH
VANCOUVER — It didn’t seem like a fair fight. Not at first. Greenpeace calls
itself “the world’s most visible environmental organization.” It might be that.
And there was the new Rainbow Warrior, pride of the Greenpeace fleet, tied to a
public wharf on Vancouver’s north shore. Its giant, twin masts beckoned like
church steeples. Hundreds of people lined up to pay homage and to poke around
the impressive 58-metre craft Friday morning.
The
$32-million “eco-vessel” entered service two years ago. Now she’s on a west
coast publicity trip. Dozens of young Greenpeace volunteers in “Ship Happens”
hoodies welcomed the hoi polloi, briefed them on the boat, manned information
booths and handed out promotional stuff: Buttons, brochures, posters. They had
the drill down pat.
Golden
Rice Project
Golden
Rice ProjectGolden Rice (R) has been genetically modified to produce
beta-carotene which our bodies can convert to vitamin A..
Along
came Patrick Moore, shuffling toward the glistening ship. He’s no stranger to
Greenpeace, of course. Mr. Moore was an early stalwart, one of the group’s most
committed, hardcore activists, a former president of the original Greenpeace
Foundation before the movement split into factions. At his side was his
brother, Michael, another former Greenpeace activist, and three younger family
members.
No
one rushed over to greet them. This was no cheery reunion. The Moores came not
to praise Greenpeace, but to protest it.
They
despair of Greenpeace now. “Ultra-leftists,” snarls Mr. Moore. What bothers
them most is the organization’s stiff opposition to genetically modified
organisms, or GMOs. The Moores are big proponents of Golden Rice, a genetically
modified cereal grain designed to produce beta carotin. It promises to combat
Vitamin A deficiency in the developing world, the Moores insist, where rice is
a dietary staple. The family has established a Vancouver-based non-profit
society, Allow Golden Rice Now, to promote its further development and
scientific research while bringing attention to what they claim is an efficient,
humanitarian response to a global hardship.
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