What is the secret behind the Liberals and Environmentalists wanting the Kyoto Treaty?

Question

The dirty secret behind Kyoto, the U.S. chose economic growth over reducing emissions - but so have many of the countries who actually signed on to the Kyoto treaty.

If the world fries because of climate change, they thunder, it will be America's fault. Or, more specifically, George W.'s, because he took the Kyoto Protocol out of the desk drawer where Bill Clinton had stashed it for several years, and definitively binned it.

Take a close squint at the numbers, and frankly it looks as if many of the countries that did sign Kyoto share Bush's concern that the economic pain might outweigh the green gain.

Look at those nice people north of the border: Canada agreed to cut emissions by 6 percent. Whoops. The country is running 24 percent ahead, a lot more than the United States, which is 15.8 percent above 1990 levels. Japan has the same 6 percent target, and is also missing big, by about 13 percent.

Okay, how about the 15 western European countries that were Kyoto's original members? Sorry, for the second year in a row, according to figures released in late June, emissions rose for the EU-15.

Answer 1

Canadians know its useless to follow the Kyoto agreement when the US, China, India which are the three biggest polluters don't.

Until one of the 3 major polluters does something its pointless.

Answer 2

There is no secret it is is an convenient excuse for trampling individual freedom. The reason is that liberty and socialism are incompatible so to establish socialism you first have to stamp out liberty.

Oops the weather and science are not cooperating with the global warming scare mongers. Recently released information indicates the warmest year of last century was in the 1930's. And that the average global temperature has been falling for the last 3 to 4 years. The warmest period in recorded history was about 900 years ago, and its far more likely that we will fall into an ice age than run away global warming.

Now we learn just this week that the correlation between CO2 levels and global temperatures is not following the mathematical model which predicted global warming. Meaning decreasing CO2 emissions will have no significant impact on reducing "global warming".

I guess they'll have to go back to pollution, to find an excuse to restrict freedom.

Answer 3

curiously it somewhat is by using fact our greatest Minister would not have faith Kyoto will succeed, would not have faith it somewhat is honest for Australia as a rustic as a rule run on coal (even nevertheless the contract does take that into attention), would not have faith in placing objectives for carbon emissions and he claims that ratifying the contract might value jobs. I somewhat do no longer agree together with his determination, yet fortuitously we are having an election quickly so John Howard's reign of terror is optimistically coming to an end. opposition chief Kevin Rudd is in finished help of the Kyoto Protocol.

Answer 4

The dirty little secret is that most of the largest countries in the world told the enviromentalists to stuff it. Those that did sign are now rethinking thier decision. As of yet no one has definittively proven that we can positively influence climate change enough to control it. In other words, while we should all try to promote a cleaner enviroment, it is niave to think that we can control mother nature. heck , we can't even accurately predict the weather most of the time and we're going to control it? I think not. ITs all about the creation of jobs and money and who benefits from it.

Answer 5

HOW DARE YOU !!!!!! Its not what you do it is your intention. If you would have signed the treaty in '98 the world would have followed. Forget the fact that every country including Japan has failed to reach any goals set by the treaty. It is the message and feelings that count.