GLobal Warming Add

[Anonymous]

While there might be disagreement about whether or not man-caused global warming is occurring, there is no debate about the remedy, which is laid out in the Kyoto Protocol.  This legally binding, worldwide prescription to cure global warming would be the law of the land today had not the U.S. and Australia failed to sign on.  Once there are enough believers, a current version of Kyoto will surely become international law.  We are about one-quarter inch away from that outcome right now. 

 

It is not easy to explain the minutia of Kyoto, but here is the mandate in a nutshell.  The U.S. will need to cut its current energy consumption by 30% within ten years.  Bear in mind that the U.S. energy consumption is rising, so 30% cut from today’s rate will be a much higher cut from the rate that would be arrived at in ten years if there were no cut.

 

While the poor nations pollute more than the rich nations per capita because of their lack of regulations, the poor nations pollute less than the rich nations in total.  This is because the rich nations have a higher standard of living and do more manufacturing.  Some argue that this disparity is unfair.  Certainly Kyoto does.  It punishes the rich nations for polluting more than the poor nations, and rewards the poor nations for polluting less than the rich nations.  It literally robs from the rich to give to the poor, all in the name of fairness. 

 

Some people decry the lack of progressiveness on the part of the U.S. for not signing onto Kyoto while the rest of the world has signed on.  But there is a good reason for skepticism on the part of the U.S. because Kyoto will severely punish the U.S. more than any other country.  Countries like Ecuador or Pakistan will not only be exempt from punishment, but they will also be rewarded handsomely with the largess that is extracted from the U.S. and other advanced countries as punishment for their creation of greenhouse gases.  

 

I often hear people say they want to discuss global warming without the politics.  Yet, global warming is nothing but politics.  It’s world government politics of the most insidious nature, and it’s masquerading and being sold as climate science.

[broncoman]

So Buycrus are you for or against it.  I am unclear what you were stating. 
It seems from what little I have read about Kyoto its more about the volume of pollutants not the toxicity of them (a way to target the US).  It looks like another form of world tax.

Sorry I know.....

[Bergie]

OK, let's get back on topic.  [Locked]