Has Australian Prime Minister Rudd pulled back on his commitment to the Kyoto Treaty?

Question

from what i was reading, he doesnt want to hurt the economy of australia due to the impact of implementing these global warming changes. i know that he was very vocal on global warming during his campaign. do you think that he may have a change of heart on the matter?

Answer 1

Two things...

1. He's Liberal. Liberals are not above lying to the general public to get what they want. (votes and power)
He clearly is not sticking to his core values or you'd see him carry out his hair-brained scheme of complying to the Kyoto treaty. (which is designed to accomplish nothing but wealth redistribution on a global scale.... and have no effect on the ecology of the planet).

2. Global warming alarmists are nothing but Socialist or Communists that are trying the "...if you can't dazzle them with diamonds; baffle them with bull****" technique.

These two marry up very well in accomplishing the each others goals.

Warm regards,
Douglas

Answer 2

Hi, im glad to answer this question cos i live in Bali where UNCCC is being held. Australia already agreed to ratificate Kyoto Protocol. hooray!. Sadly, USA still refuse to agree. I hope Bush will be replaced soon. I am sure nobody will harmed by taking care of the nature well. The cost of disobeying the nature cycle is much much worse. The nature is a living thing it can pay back.
If u just understand what's happening in Indonesia because the global warming, as it is a tropical country. In my city 35' Celcius is a common weather now. I get diarhea due to lack of clean water, the rain doesnt come out normally. In some cities there are heavy flood,people die, lot of rare animals extinct. The ecosystem doesnt work well and creates the poor people in Indonesia who use to work traditionally in rice field, plantation and fishery getting even poorer.
Something i just dont understand with developed country like USA is, they blame developing country for not stopping deforestation but actually their companies which buy the illegal woods from tropical forrest, sucking the mine products and still refusing signing on kyoto treaty. Its just a matter of time the sub tropic will get the effect of global warming like in the movie 'the day after 2morrow'. Maybe its already happens.

Answer 3

He's speaking in a special political language which people don't seem to understand. When he said he'd ratify Kyoto, he means sign the document and not make any policy changes. Also when he said commit to 20% renewables by 2020, he's not talking about what his government will do, but he's implying what some future government should do.

Renewables seems to mean solar - which is expensive. There could be a lot more hydro in Tasmania feeding into the national grid - but you know what the problems are there.

Answer 4

It's seems his approach is similar to Prime Minister Harper's in Canada.
Any country with anything close to having a strong economy will not risk it on that "accord".

Answer 5

Shockingly, the poor countries want the "rich" countries to stop economic development and hinder advancement. When two children are running a race and one starts to pull ahead the other will tug on the shirt of the faster one to slow them down. I, for one, don't like having my shirt tugged. The world should be a place of the haves and the have nots. Instead of tugging at the shirt of the "rich", why don't poor countries dig themselves out of whatever problems they have. Stop trying to bring the haves to their level.

Answer 6

Most politicians say things just to get elected. Once elected, they know the promises they made were unreal, and that it doesn't matter because they still have the votes from their base.

Answer 7

Going for a balance.

Answer 8

He probably pulled back to go back to his earwax eating days.