Germany To U.S.: Cut Emissions or Face Disaster

DW WORLD ^ | 04/29/04 | DW WORLD

[Finalapproach29er]

They need to worry about China. Five years from now they will lead the world in pollution. Will Germans threaten China? Not likely.

[greasepaint]

This is BS.
The EUians have done NOTHING
(except things they would have done anyway,
such as shut-down Soviet era industry).
The Kyoto treaty uses 1990 as its baseline year,
with the intention of letting Germany.et.al
emit as much as they want.
The only thing these whores want is
money from the US.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

What Trittin doesn't want the world to know...but we do.

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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

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[ancient_geezer]

"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

[american spirit]

This is the kind of crap that happens as long as we have political leaders who blindly worship the altar of globalism.....unless we change the status quo we just better get used to this nonsense of outsiders challenging our sovereignty.

[spunkets]

"the reality of 'The Day After Tomorrow'"

Exists in the imagination of idiots exclusively.

[RightWhale]

The German government has subsidized the project to the tune of €6 million ($7 million),

The cost to solarize the country would be closer to $7 trillion. Go for it Reichsminister.

[pepsionice]

Lets talk about Herr Trittin now. This is the dope who came into the Energy department with a hacksaw and was going to take down all nuclear power plants within five years. Only after the media examined his plan and said it would bring brown-outs...did Schroeder have guts to call him down. When he came out with the can deposit...and the stores across the entire country said that the plan was only 50 percent ready to go...he didn't care...onward. Stores have lost money, as have consumers. Trittin is the biggest fool in Germany today. When they invite him onto talk shows...every question has to be reshaped in order to avoid to make him look like a fool. The public is waiting for one reporter, just one reporter, to take this fool down. No one gets the chance. So when he makes a bold statement like this to Americans and talks about coming to the US...and will likely have to do at least one press interview...perhaps American reporters can finally ask the right questions and expose him as the fool he really is.