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28.12.05, 15:53
Kyoto Hypocrites

Environment: When world leaders met in Montreal earlier this month to discuss
global warming, one idea won near-universal agreement: Because it refuses to
sign or live by Kyoto, the U.S. is a villain.

The reigning mythology goes like this: Europe and Canada have heroically
struggled to save the planet by acting responsibly to cut greenhouse gases,
while an economically rapacious U.S. does as it pleases and leaves the
cleanup to others.
Turns out neither is true — a point we made at the time of the Montreal
meetings, and which has been reinforced by a new report showing how out of
whack global-warming rhetoric has gotten.
The study shows the U.S. is not the villain in Kyoto. It also shows that
Canada and the EU appear to be guilty of massive hypocrisy. Conducted by the
Institute for Public Policy Research, it found that Britain and Sweden are
the only European countries living up to their commitments under Kyoto. The
other 13 countries in the EU are not, and neither is Canada.
Yet during the Montreal conference, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin
had the nerve to accuse the U.S. of lacking a “global conscience.” EU
Environment Minister Stavros Dimas, boasted: “Europe has led, and will
continue to lead, the endeavor to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. . . . We
are set to meet our reduction target for 2008-2012.”
The reality is very different. Kyoto’s goal was to get rich nations by
2012 to cut their output of greenhouse gases by 8% from their levels in 1990.
Yet Canada’s output has actually increased by 24%, Spain’s by 41.7%,
Ireland’s by 25.6%, Austria’s by 16.5% and so on.
The U.S., by comparison, is up 13.3%.
Granted, some EU nations have cut back. In fact, the EU’s output overall
has been pared 1.4% since 1990. But on closer inspection, many of the “cuts”
were accomplished simply by shutting old, inefficient, communist-era
industries in East Germany or, in the case of Britain, switching from dirty
coal to clean natural gas.
The easy work, in other words, has been done and the EU, despite its
rhetoric, shows no signs of living up to its own commitments. The European
Environment Group, which monitors the EU’s Kyoto compliance, recently noted
that greenhouse gas output is growing across the board.
Europe hopes a new scheme of tradeable pollution permits will make cutting
easier. But recent research from the International Council for Capital
Formation says meeting Kyoto’s goals could cost the EU from 1.5% to 4% of its
GDP and kill over a million jobs.
Europe won’t incur those costs. It doesn’t have to. It’s found instead
it’s far cheaper — and more effective — to bash the U.S.
This is the hypocrisy of Kyoto laid bare. Europe, Canada and their
developing world allies never intended to make any of the sacrifices they
routinely ask of the U.S.
With Kyoto revealed as the sham it is, maybe we can now get down to
discussing — reasonably — what, if anything, must be done about our warmer
planet.
    • kapitalizm Re: Kyoto - czyli jak UE & Kanada maja to gdzies. 28.12.05, 16:25
      The Kyoto Protocol – What every NZer should know.


      Amidst the talk about the benefits that Kyoto Protocol is supposed to promote,
      it is perhaps forgotten, especially amongst the greenies, how the treaty that
      is supposed to save the world from the evil extravagances of itself was born in
      the corridors of very big business.

      The name Enron has all but faded from our news pages since the company went
      down in flames in 2001 amidst charges of fraud, bribery, price fixing and
      graft. But without Enron there would have been no Kyoto Protocol.

      About 20 years ago Enron was owner and operator of an interstate network of
      natural gas pipelines, and had transformed itself into a billion-dollar-a-day
      commodity trader, buying and selling contracts and their derivatives to deliver
      natural gas, electricity, internet bandwidth, whatever. The 1990 Clean Air Act
      amendments authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to put a cap on how
      much pollutant the operator of a fossil-fueled plant was allowed to emit. In
      the early 1990s Enron had helped establish the market for, and became the major
      trader in, EPA’s $20 billion-per-year sulphur dioxide cap and trade program,
      the forerunner of today's proposed carbon credit trade. This commodity exchange
      of emission allowances caused Enron’s stock to rapidly rise.

      Then came the inevitable question, what next? How about a carbon dioxide cap
      and trade program? The problem was that CO2 is not a pollutant, and therefore
      the EPA had no authority to cap its emission. Al Gore took office in 1993 and
      almost immediately became infatuated with the idea of an international
      environmental regulatory regime. He led a U.S. initiative to review new
      projects around the world and issue ‘credits’ of so many tons of annual CO2
      emission reduction. Under law a tradeable system was required, which was
      exactly what Enron also wanted because they were already trading pollutant
      credits. Thence Enron vigorously lobbied Clinton and Congress, seeking EPA
      regulatory authority over CO2. From 1994 to 1996, the Enron Foundation
      contributed nearly $1 million dollars - $990,000 - to the Nature Conservancy,
      whose Climate Change Project promotes global warming theories. Enron
      philanthropists lavished almost $1.5 million on environmental groups that
      support international energy controls to “reduce” global warming. Executives at
      Enron worked closely with the Clinton administration to help create a
      scaremongering climate science environment because the company believed the
      treaty could provide it with a monstrous financial windfall. The plan was that
      once the problem (imminent global catastrophe) was in place, the solution
      (Enron's services) would be put into operation. It nearly worked.

      A lawyer named Christopher Horner was hired who had worked in Senator
      Liebermann’s Environment Committee. Horner, employed by Enron, became director
      of Relations with the Federal Government. That was in 1997, before the Kyoto
      Protocol was drafted. According to Homer, on the second day at the job he was
      told that the Number One Objective was to obtain an international treaty that
      would impose cuts in CO2 emissions, but at the same time allowed trade with
      emission rights. Enron had the biggest natural gas production behind Russia’s
      Gazprom. Enron was making a lot of money trading with coal, but they had
      already calculated that the profits they would lose with coal would be more
      than compensated by the profits derived from its privileged position in other
      areas. With clever positioning and anticipation Enron already had bought the
      world’s biggest wind power company, GE Wind, from General Electric. They now
      also owned the biggest solar power company in the world, in society with Amoco
      (now belonging to British Petroleum – BP). Enron then started to finance
      everything related to the global warming hype, including grants to scientists –
      but asking for results favorable to their interest – “proof” that humans were
      responsible for the excessive emissions of CO2 through fossil fuel burning. The
      fire of malaise now lit and kindled, only required feeding.

      The expressive term 'Baptist-bootlegger' derives from the days of prohibition.
      Under prohibition bootleggers and those who transported and supplied illegal
      alcohol made fortunes. One such entrepreneur was Joseph Kennedy whose second
      son, John, became US President in 1961. The bootleggers had allies in the
      Baptists and other teetotalists, who believed that alcohol was a deadly threat
      to the social order, and had worked for decades to get prohibition onto the
      statute books. The Baptists provided the political cover and the bootleggers
      pocketed the proceeds. In public the two groups maintained a great social
      distance from each other. Now Enron had positioned itself at the centre of an
      awesome Baptist-bootlegger coalition. The gargantuan rents which Enron
      energetically sought could be realized only if the Kyoto Protocol became
      established as part of US and international law. Ken Lay, Enron's CEO saw Enron
      as not only making billions from sales of the natural gas which was to displace
      coal as the preferred fuel under the Kyoto commitments, but he realised that as
      the main if not the only international and domestic trader in the new barter
      world of carbon credits, Enron could realise hitherto unimagined wealth. Such
      credits, of course, would only become bankable pieces of paper if governments,
      particularly the US Government, established and policed a global policy of
      decarbonisation under which a global tax on carbon was to be enforced.

      As the movement to establish the Kyoto Protocol developed momentum, it was
      necessary for Ken Lay to build up alliances with the green movement including
      Greenpeace. A 1998 letter, signed by Lay and a few other bigwigs asked
      President Clinton, in essence, to harm the reputations and credibility of
      scientists who argued that global warming was an overblown issue, because these
      individuals were standing in Enron's way. The letter, dated Sept. 1, asked the
      president to shut off the public scientific debate on global warming, which
      continues to this date. In particular, it requested Clinton to moderate the
      political aspects of this discussion by appointing a bipartisan Blue Ribbon
      Commission. The purpose of this commission was clear - high-level trashing of
      dissident scientists. Setting up a panel to do this was simple; just look at
      the recent issue of Scientific American where four attack dogs were called out
      to chew up Bjorn Lomborg. He had the audacity to publish The Skeptic
      Environmentalist demonstrating that global warming is overblown. David Bellamy,
      the world’s foremost environmentalist also stepped out of line with his widely
      printed article “Global Warming? What a load of old Poppycock.” In the same way
      that Galileo was forced to publicly utter that the moon had no effect on tides,
      or risk further imprisonment by Rome's papal court, so Bellamy under pressure
      buckled and has since mild-ified some of his claims.



      Enron commissioned its own internal study of global warming science. It turned
      out to be largely in agreement with the same scientists that Enron was trying
      to shut up. After considering all of the inconsistencies in climate science,
      the report concluded: "The very real possibility is that the great climate
      alarm could be a false alarm. The anthropogenic warming could well be less than
      thought and favorably distributed." One of Enron's major consultants in that
      study was NASA scientist James Hansen, who started the whole global warming
      mess in 1988 with his bombastic congressional testimony. Recently he published
      a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences predicti
      • kapitalizm Re: Kyoto - czyli jak UE & Kanada maja to gdzies. 28.12.05, 16:30
        www.predictweather.com/articles.asp?ID=36
        • meerkat1 Popieraj Belkoto z Kyoto, idioto! n/t 28.12.05, 19:30
        • adolf16_bratevy15 I znowu USA miala racje 29.12.05, 02:27
        • meerkat1 I znow USA mialo racje? 29.12.05, 09:11
          No nie.... JAK SMIESZ???!

          Gdyby nie Bush i wywolane przez globalne ocieplenie to obywatele ChRL i
          kacapskiej Wchodniej Syberii nadal mogliby swobodnie emigrowac do USA
          przechodzac przez most lodowy nad Ciesnina Beringa, a tak... :-(((

          Ech, ci buszysci-faszysci!
          • sly2015 Re: I znow USA mialo racje? 30.12.05, 06:53
            No i gdzie ci obroncy tego bezurzytecznego swistka papieru wartego co atrament
            na nim ????!!!!!!!!
            Czyzby to nastepny "sukces "Mimi-europejskiej na miare "Strategi
            lizbonskiej "
    • captain.america God Bless global warming!! 30.12.05, 08:15
      Dzieki CO2 tutaj w New Jersey pod koniec grudnia jest zero sniegu i temperatury
      regularnie okolo +10C. Mam nadzieje ze tak pozostanie przez reszte zimy, a
      lewactwo moze mnie pocalowac w doopsko!
      • meerkat1 Re: God Bless global warming!! 30.12.05, 17:30
        a te co go nie lubia moga sie z powrotem zaszyc w jaskiniach i trzasc pod
        stosami mahmucich, tfu!... MAMUCICH skor! :-)))
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