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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan Have you actually read the treaty? Me personally, I believe that our governments should invest 50% into the industries to reduce the emissions. Thankfully alot of industries are starting to do this already including the coal fired plants. I don't believe that as soon as the Kyoto Protocol was to be implemented, everything had to be done all at once. Consider how much money governments would spend on healthcare not to mention the people who don't have their healthcare paid for by the government. Kyoto like tendencies can be very profitable if you know what you want to save on. Sometimes monetary profit is not as important as maintaining a healthy environment. Despite some peoples arguements that the world will not end. They are true. The world will survive, its just our species will cease to exist. I would say in a hundred years from now, we will see some evidence of things to come. The polar ice caps are melting and our storms our getting more intense and frequent. Tell me when anybody has heard of middle eastern countries getting snow? When was the last time people has heard of Europe suffering a heat wave that killed many people? Has the U.S ever declared smog advisories and if so, how many? Are they growing? I think people better wake up and realize what is going on here. What do you think will happen when the ozone layer is gone? Think of a marshmallow and a fireplace. Direct UV rays are deadly and will burn us as if we stumbled into a giant microwave. I don't understand how people can be so naiive and not think about thease things in a logical manner. [/quote] Andrew, Have YOU actually read the treaty? It requires committed (e.g. duped) countries to reduce CO2 emissions back to pre-1990 levels, roughly a 7% reduction. Since viable CO2 sequestration technologies are still years away, how are nations supposed to meet these requirements without a de facto shut down of 7% of CO2 emitting industries? What it means for Canada is that future energy needs will have to be met by more expensive options such as natural gas power plants instead of coal fired power plants, and you'll end up wasting tons of cash on solar and wind projects which simply cannot meat legitimate energy needs. Your aluminum plants will have to come up with some way to reduce emissions, and the cost of doing this will make the end product more expensive compared to aluminum produced in non-Kyoto countries and Kyoto exempted countries. More than likely Canada will lose a handfull of aluminum production facilities, meaning those workers will be laid off. Your nation will be restricted from future timber cutting. And of course, with a reduction in coal mining, timber output, and metal production, the railroads will have less to carry, so more layoffs in that sector. You also know that climate fluctuations are part of a natural cycle that has been going on for eons. The current climate fluctuations are exactly coorelated to fluctuations in solar activity. Furthermore, mankind's actual contribution to the greenhouse effect is whopping 0.17%, so a 7% reduction in CO2 from man-made sources amounts to an astounding 0.0119%! Yeah, that's really going to make a difference in the greenhouse effect! Man could double his CO2 output and still not make a dent in the total greenhouse gas accumulations, so why should we emasculate our economies for the sake of the cult of idiocy? The problem with these junk scientists is that they know they will not be around in a hundred years to be held accountable when their dire predictions are proved false. Typical Keynesian lack of responsibility: "Who cares about impacts of econimic policy in the long run? In the long run we'll all be dead!"
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