[cogitator]

What a surprise [not]. Some of the most vocal Kyoto supporters and US bashers are from the Scandinavian countries, too.

[Cicero]

There's only one solution. The Finns have to stop breathing!

[pepsionice]

When you look at all of the numbers they cooked up for the Kyoto treaty...it came from stats in the early 90s. Everyone was pointing fingers and hoping to make the US into the badboy on the entire episode. But as each year goes by...it starts to become apparent that no one can truely meet the standards they set out to meet. Finland has little if any industry...so you really have to ask yourself what they are measuring in the first place and if someone might be tampering withthe numbers to put more pressure on the government to enforce extreme standards upon society there. Of course, those nasty Swedes might be causing all of the problems...and letting bad air drift over. Hmmmmmm......

[q_an_a]

they can do what Nokia did, come to Texas, we'll build your high tech products and save you the trouble of working. Then you can play nice with Kyoto.

[The Great RJ]

They've been heating their saunas too much. To save the environment the Finns should just go sit in a snow bank instead.

[DTogo]

Good! This was a primary reason for the US not adopting the Kyoto Accord, and Bush having the kin-tama to say so. It's full of artificial goals that are unachievable without spending billions and billions on revamping each country's entire energy and industrial base. Just plain silly.

[crazyhorse691]

Methane emissions, also regulated by the UN-sponsored treaty, have at the same time dropped by a fifth in Finland however, due to lower livestock figurers and better waste management, the semi-public agency said.
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So, if Finland achieved this by reducing the reindeer herds that the Laplanders need to survive isn't that Genocide? UN sponsored Genocide exposed!!!!

[digger48]

Methane Commeth From Pigsh*t

[hinckley buzzard]

I suspect that the Kyoto limits on CO2 will be about as enforceable as the EU's rigid debt limits on member nations. France and Germany have been in violation every year, and nothing happens.

The same will befall Kyoto, the first time a member nation faces the choice of domestic recession or excess carbon dioxide, with or without "pollution credits."

These stupid pacts are simply bureaucratic rituals, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

We were right as rain to stay out, and Russia will soon rue the day they bit on this frogbait. They are counting on selling lots of unused credits, for big money, but wait until their fragile economy surpasses the 1990 level of industrialization. They'll be gone, guaranteed.

[F16Fighter]

Finnish carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions totaled 88.5 million tonnes last year, according to provisional figures from Statistics Finland.

Big deal...

My family is doing more than that after a lunch at Taco Bell.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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