Global Warming - Kyoto Protocol encourages cutting down forests?

Question

It is being reported that the Kyoto Protocol encourages the cutting down forest. Since you cannot collect the global warming carbon tax credits for not planting trees, it is actually encouraging people to cut down the rain forest.

Say it aint so Joe! What's a global warmist going to do?

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Answer 1

I also violate the Kyoto Protocols but not by cutting down trees. It is usually after I eat Mexican food usually burritos that I have several hours of unauthorized gas emissions into the atmosphere.

Answer 2

The Kyoto protocol is not much more than a European/Pan Asian conspiracy to diminish the American industrial complex for the expansion of their own. That fact is demonstrable in the unachievable goals. It amounts to economic extortion.

No other industrialized nation has ratified the agreement, and none seems likely to in the near future.

Bush could have said nothing or, better still, mumbled something about taking it under consideration, and his meetings with European leaders would have taken on an entirely different tone. He could have forestalled their lectures on American imperialism and their calls for the United States to drastically reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases.

Yes, it would have been easier to skip over Kyoto, but it wouldn't have been right. Because, despite a lot of hot air to the contrary, the Kyoto Protocol is bad policy -- not only for the United States but even for the anti-global warming movement.

For one thing, the treaty's unfair. It would force the United States and other developed countries to make deep emissions cuts but would exempt developing nations, including Brazil, India and China, three of the world's leading polluters. Ironically, though -- thanks to population increases, economic expansion and a growing reliance on carbon-based fuels -- within 15 years these nations will be emitting more greenhouse gases than the major industrialized nations do today, according to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Most of the Kyoto Protocol proponents have not even read the document. Here's the chance. See source below.

Answer 3

What's worse is that deforestation contributes to global warming in 2 ways, 1 is by not reducing CO2 in the atmosphere by depleting trees, the other is that fields reflect more heat into the atmosphere, to be trapped by CO2.

Answer 4

Trees grow back; at least, they did the last time I checked.

The Kyoto Protocol was never anything more than a "feel good" piece of paper, anyway.

Answer 5

It is hard to criticize, much less improve, International Treaties such as Kyoto if you refuse to be part of it....

Kyoto was NOT a perfect solution by any means. However, it was the basis for initiating international cooperation for addressing environmental/climate concerns.

Answer 6

so brazil uses ethanol only. ethanol comes from corn. corn needs to be grown in a field. the only way to make room for a field in a forest is to.... cut down trees.