Kyoto Protocol Declared 'Dead' at UN Climate Conference

CNS ^ | December 6, 2005 | Marc Morano

[Daralundy]

Montreal (CNSNews.com) - The Kyoto Protocol on climate change was declared "dead" by several organizations attending the 11th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference this week in Montreal.

"It's dead, but no one wants to pull the life support system," Bill O'Keefe of the Washington-based George Marshall Institute told Cybercast News Service on Monday while attending the conference.

"Kyoto is flawed, it is not going anywhere. It simply is not going to happen. There is no available technology that is going to make [the size of greenhouse gas emissions required by the protocol,]" O'Keefe said of the protocol's 2012 goal of getting top industrialized nations to cut their industrial emissions by 5.2 percent from the level that was produced in 1990. The United States has not signed on to the treaty.

The Marshall Institute, which "encourages the use of sound science in making public policy," takes a skeptical view of alarmist global warming.

"The developed countries that have signed up for it are going to miss their [greenhouse gas emission] targets," O'Keefe explained.

Several of the nations that ratified Kyoto, including the United Kingdom and Canada, either have expressed reservations about their ability to meet the emission goals set in the protocol or are struggling to meet emission reductions. More than 8,000 government leaders, environmentalists and scientists, are attending the U.N. conference to discuss what steps to take to further limit greenhouse gases beyond the Kyoto provisions.

U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded in September that Kyoto would never succeed. Blair said, "No country is going to cut its growth or consumption" because of the fear of climate change and predicted that disputes regarding its execution will "never be resolved."

[msnimje]

I am having hot flashes and I know I would not if President Bush had only signed the Kyoto Treaty.
Oh the humanity!

[GeronL]

ding dong the witch is dead, the witch is dead, the witch is dead, ding dong the wicked witch is dead

[Caipirabob]

Thank you, President Bush!

[Reform4Bush]

Gee, you mean trading pollution as a commodity isn't going to work? I'm shocked. Utterly shocked. /sarcasm

[Forte Runningrock]

According to the left wing moonbat in Canada, Jack Leighton, vote for him and he will tax Canadians to death, destroy industry, ause massive lay-offs and send all the money to Asian polluters
he'll meet those goals dammit! and import a million more immigrants to participate in the long unemploment lines. This nutcase will do wonders for the steel and auto industry with his Kyoto plans.

[grundle]

There is no available technology that is going to make [the size of greenhouse gas emissions required by the protocol,]

So there's no such thing as nuclear power?

[Always Right]

"It's dead, but no one wants to pull the life support system," Bill O'Keefe of the Washington-based George Marshall Institute told Cybercast News Service on Monday while attending the conference.

It is not dead, it has been ratified by many countries. I want to see these hypocrites cough up the money they owe because of their CO2 emissions.

[Always Right]

So there's no such thing as nuclear power?

Hey, no saying the n-word.

[conservativecorner]

And good riddance to a bogus scam meant to transfer wealth from some nations to other nations under the guise of global warming.

[goldstategop]

Kyoto is a dead letter. It was more of a feel good statement by the Eurotrash and the Canadians but no one took its utopian goals seriously. No country is ever going to make emissions cuts of that magnitude... and by 2050 for all that pain, as Mark Steyn noted, they'd succeed in reducing global warming by seven tenths of a percentage point. And if there's one thing politicians are reowned for, its not for inflicting pain upon those who put them in office.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Mike Darancette]

"It's dead, but no one wants to pull the life support system,"

Without being to suck on the US cash teat Kyoto is a non starter.

[dfwgator]

It's not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead.