Posted on 05/13/2005 10:06:06 PM PDT by FairOpinion
This statement is completely and inherently flawed.
And, China is/would be exempt from the Kyoto protocol, as is Russia.
You are exactly right, we would be fine with nuclear power. Infact it is the future of energy I believe sooner or later.
The green movements rejection of nuclear power leads me to believe their goal is de-industrialization, not concerns of environmental damage.
Indeed. And the voters in any particular city should be willing to accept the responsibility for the mistakes their elected leaders make. But they don't. They continually agitate to have others pay for their blunders.
So far is Kyoto is concerned, I'm sure liberals are counting on having everyone pay for it. After all, the costs involved are astonomical. And the cities mentioned simply cannot pay afford it.
Thanks. :)
It seems like we can't handle the pollution that goes along with manufacturing, so we ban it here, or regulate it to death. So the Chinese just slam in the plants instead.
I have seen an awful lot of badly reported (and obviously misunderstood) science boiled down to slogans for the masses.
Unfortunately, I doubt that most people would adequately understand the implications of Kyoto or any other treaty, simply because they would never hear it on TV.
I am sure Russia (former USSR) is in the running. Between their disastrous attempts at the oil industry (before US personnel made it over there to work) and Chernobyl, they at least get an honorable mention.
You've got to ask, 'Is it remotely possible that there is a threat that Saddam Hussein has WMD that he will use (again - remember the murdered Kurds) against the West, thus murdering potentially millions of people? and, is it remotely possible that he is supporting and harboring others who would do the same thing?'
If the answer is yes, you've got to take the Mother F***er out!
Is it remotely possible that your freedom and wealth will be reduced the next time Congress is in session? If the answer is yes, you've got to stop voting now.
As if it would help.
"And by the end of this year the city's power utility, Seattle City Light, will be the only utility in the country with no net emissions of greenhouse gases, the mayor's office said."
omg!! they can be clean without signing a flawed treaty?
they dont need the magic Kyoto wand?
Those parts were only meant for enforcement against the United States.
Which is why they are nothing more than mayors.
If the reactors we do have were running at capacity, I'll bet most of the energy supply problems would disappear. California could build two huge ones in the desert, one to supply the Northern state, and another to supply the Southern state. Crisis solved.
What about waste? Doesn't matter... If you don't take the uranium ore out of the ground, it leaches into ground water.
It would be a good idea to store the waste on the moon.
(I think this is why the television show Space 1999 was created - - to discourage the idea. They depicted the moon being blasted off into the nether regions of space by explosions. We know this is not possible. More info-tainment junk science for the unwashed.)
How many mayors are there in the US?
And don't forget India.
5.56mm
Hydroelectric.
Maybe they're doing some sort of carbon sequestration program. I would be curious to know myself.
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