Posted on 06/23/2006 11:24:06 PM PDT by Dallas59
MANY governments, including some that claim to be leading the fight against global warming, are harbouring a dirty little secret. These countries are emitting far more greenhouse gas than they say they are, a fact that threatens to undermine not only the shaky Kyoto protocol but also the new multibillion-dollar market in carbon trading. Under Kyoto, each government calculates how much carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide its country emits by adding together estimated emissions from individual sources.....
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
I've been studying the global warming issue and the best web site I've found on this subject is this one:
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/
I'm shocked, shocked!!
Kyoto is wealth redistribution, pure and simple. It will do nothing to stave off global warming, if it even exists.
Actually, I'm up in the northernmost state - really rough winters. I'd like it to go back to the warmer weather they had for a few hundred years back when they Vikings lived in Greenland - from about 1000AD to 350AD. Then the mini ice-age hit and wreaked havoc and starvation in Europe and drove the Vikings out of Greenland.
I'm BANKING on earth doing one of her normal swings...
Kyoto enacting legislation has been introduced
in Canada's parliment.
in the bill, C-288, the enviro minister seems to be
given the power of life and death over the whole country.
unbelievable
http://www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/private/C-288/C-288_1/C-288-3E.html
6 "I'll sign right up to Bore's Global warming - just as soon as he admits that the SUN is getting warmer"
No, it's the US pollution, which is causing the melting of the icecaps on Mars, the temperature increases on Saturn and it's moons, and the temperature of Pluto. (check it out, the solar system is warming up).
"Ironically, the best monitoring is done by the US and Australia, which are both in denial over Kyoto," Nisbet says. Yes, the facts maam, just the facts.
I've been studying the global warming issue and the best web site I've found on this subject is this one:
A much better and more comprehensive site is the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) at http://www.sepp.org/
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