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Dec 11, 2007, 10:18 GMT

The Kyoto Protocol - its targets and how to meet them


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NoharnessDec 14th, 2007 - 13:26:14

RE:'To help countries reach those targets, Kyoto for the first time set up a global carbon market, introducing a global price for emissions of carbon dioxide - the chief greenhouse gas. Countries that are faring better than their targets can sell 'emissions credits' to countries unlikely to meet their own.'

Let's see, neither India nor China has a prayer of hitting those targets. The US and the EU could come close if they tried real hard, but I doubt that they could ever prove it. Anyone ever ask how a nation proves it reached its assigned targets? Anyone ever ask who would be conducting the audit? Did you ever think about the fact that maybe there is more than a little mistrust at work here?

Anyway, who would wind up paying whom and where would they get the money?

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NoharnessDec 15th, 2007 - 17:31:33

If these people really wanted to reach these goals, they would be out demanding that coal-fired power plants be replaced with nuclear fission plants. They aren't doing that, so I am obliged to assume that they are simply out making a grab for political power. It also becomes clear that is merely an excuse to isolate and then destroy the United States.

A pox on all your houses. Global warming? Guess what, boys and girls, the US can handle it alone. We do not really need you. If you want our help, you had best start using reason and be just wee bit less insulting.

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Fool on the hillDec 22nd, 2007 - 18:43:46

Kyoto has already failed and any agreement made in Bali has failed even before the ink was dry.
The only thing that will stop most countries burning fossil carbon fuels is when there are no more fossil carbon fuels to burn.

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