Australia's Howard rejects carbon emissions targets

tonny from belgiumApr 23rd, 2007 - 07:21:21

Allover the world climate change is allready taking its toll as drought is creating problems for the farmers .The weather we are experiencing right now is exceptional even in europe .Temperatures are 10 degrees above normal since more than two weeks on a row and no rain has fallen,farmers are desperately looking for eventual clouds .Same situation in parts of Australia .Freak weather in the USA .No doubt except to a few ignorant people these are the first effects of depleting the fossilized carbon reserves and injecting it in the atmosphere for more than hunderd years now in massive quantities .All this has been predicted now for allmost twenty years by som,recognized by the overwhelming majority of the scientific community .Yet political administration in some countries are wiping the needs of its population from the table,catering only for the financial interest of big industry .As long as these can profit from the energy craze no solution will be examined .Yet we know that every delay to address this urgent matter will multiply costs tenfold and the consequences will still be more dramatic .In the media in the USA the disaster is downplayed by the very people which are supposted to be in control of things ,the only directive issued to the scientists working for the administration is to keep their mouths shut .
That is the policy adopted by a country which with 8 precent of the earth's population emits no less than 25 percent of carbon emission .
The people are unaware and your president doesn't care .

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Rusty. CanberraApr 23rd, 2007 - 07:28:10

No need to worry what this ridiculous small minded economic rationalist Howard thinks - he's not going to be around much longer come the elections. Then Australia may be able to go forward at last. Rusty.

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tonny from belgiumApr 23rd, 2007 - 07:28:10

Allover the world climate change is allready taking its toll as drought is creating problems for the farmers .The weather we are experiencing right now is exceptional even in europe .Temperatures are 10 degrees above normal since more than two weeks on a row and no rain has fallen,farmers are desperately looking for eventual clouds .Same situation in parts of Australia .Freak weather in the USA .No doubt except to a few ignorant people these are the first effects of depleting the fossilized carbon reserves and injecting it in the atmosphere for more than hunderd years now in massive quantities .All this has been predicted now for allmost twenty years by som,recognized by the overwhelming majority of the scientific community .Yet political administration in some countries are wiping the needs of its population from the table,catering only for the financial interest of big industry .As long as these can profit from the energy craze no solution will be examined .Yet we know that every delay to address this urgent matter will multiply costs tenfold and the consequences will still be more dramatic .In the media in the USA the disaster is downplayed by the very people which are supposted to be in control of things ,the only directive issued to the scientists working for the administration is to keep their mouths shut .
That is the policy adopted by a country which with 8 precent of the earth's population emits no less than 25 percent of carbon .
The people are unaware and your president doesn't care .

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