Posted on 04/29/2004 9:38:18 PM PDT by Pikamax
The German Kyoto Protocol Hoax
In anticipation of the former Environmentalist Vice-President's ascendancy to the throne of ultimate global power, the United States Department of Energy had commissioned a Doomsday Book of CO2 emissions for global, regional, and national CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning, cement manufacture and gas flaring, annually from 1751 to 1998, which is available . While there are difference in some of the values reported here and at other DOE and EPA web sites, the data, which are in an easily manipulated spreadsheet format, can yield useful insights to the continuing debate over the Kyoto Protocol and global warming.
The Kyoto Protocol calls for industrialized nations to reduce their CO2 emissions to levels that are 5.2% lower than those recorded for 1990. The selection of 1990 as the base line and the strong support of this objective, on the part of Germany and other Eastern European countries, is no accident, as the DOE CO2 emissions database clearly shows. When the CO2 emissions data for all of Germany and its two cold-war East and West entities, which existed from 1945 to 1990, are plotted and compared with a Western European country such as the United Kingdom, it is glaringly obvious that Germany can meet and, indeed, exceed all of its Kyoto obligations by doing absolutely nothing. When the two Germanys were merged in 1991, the newly reunited country inherited Soviet era manufacturing facilities that generated levels of pollution extraordinary by Western standards. By simply closing or upgrading these legacies of the Cold War to Western norms, Germany was Kyoto compliant by 1992, as the following graph shows.
As a table for subsequent years, the deception is even more obvious:
German CO2 Emissions
Year
CO2
Change
Per Cap.
1990
267.616
0.000%
3.45
1991
242.959
-9.214%
3.04
1992
235.599
-11.964%
2.93
1993
231.106
-13.643%
2.86
1994
238.178
-11.000%
2.93
1995
226.551
-15.345%
2.77
1996
234.761
-12.277%
2.87
1997
227.558
-14.968%
2.77
1998
225.208
-15.847%
2.75
The United Kingdom on the other hand can expect no such advantage:
UK CO2 Emissions
Year
CO2
Change
Per Cap.
1990
155.386
0.000%
2.68
1991
158.938
2.286%
2.73
1992
149.963
-3.490%
2.57
1993
149.179
-3.995%
2.55
1994
148.122
-4.675%
2.53
1995
147.769
-4.902%
2.52
1996
154.440
-0.609%
2.62
1997
147.094
-5.336%
2.49
1998
148.011
-4.746%
2.51
Most egregious is the fact that in 1998, the Per Capita CO2 Emission for the United Kingdom was 2.51 metric tons of carbon, while that of Germany was 2.75. The people of the United Kingdom generate 9.6% less CO2 per person than the Germans, but, to meet their Kyoto goals, they must reduce their CO2 emissions still further. Germany, on the other hand, had already met their targets before Kyoto was even finalized. In addition to the ephemeral prize of climate stability in our times, all that the Great Leader can offer the British people is blood, sweat, tears and cold houses. Meanwhile in Germany, the members of the Green Party, who only recently morphed to that color from Red, can bask in the warm glow of an environmental righteousness predicated on 45 years of the most brutal subjugation of other nations' economies.
By Miceal O'Ronain
"I have to underline that the U.S. also must play its part against global warming, " Trittin said. "It could use the Kyoto Protocol as the basis for action. "
Human Contribution to Climate Change Remains Questionable
S. Fred Singer
EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Society, Vol 80, page 183-187, April 20, 1999
http://www.sepp.org/scirsrch/EOS1999.html
" There is no dispute at all about the fact that even if punctiliously observed, (the Kyoto Protocol) would have an imperceptible effect on future temperatures -- one-twentieth of a degree by 2050. "
Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia,
and former director of the US Weather Satellite Service;
in a Sept. 10, 2001 Letter to Editor, Wall Street Journal
Exists in the imagination of idiots exclusively.
The cost to solarize the country would be closer to $7 trillion. Go for it Reichsminister.
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