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Despite KYOTO - U.N.: Global Warming Gases on Rise Again
Associated Press ^ | 29 OCT 2006

Posted on 10/30/2006 1:03:38 PM PST by llevrok

BONN, Germany -- The industrialized world's emissions of greenhouse gases are growing again, despite efforts under the Kyoto Protocol to cap them and stave off global warming, the United Nations reported Monday.

Emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases declined in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the shutdown of polluting factories and power plants in eastern Europe. But now those economies are rebounding, contributing to a 2.4 percent rise in emissions by 41 industrialized nations between 2000 and 2004.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: environment; globalwarming; junkscience
Gee. Nobody is more surprised than me.
1 posted on 10/30/2006 1:03:40 PM PST by llevrok
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To: llevrok

Bush's fault. It is all the hot air coming from the democrat party.


2 posted on 10/30/2006 1:05:55 PM PST by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: llevrok

The Kyoto Treaty is something like the Great Society. A massive plan to spend trillions on accomplishing nothing.


3 posted on 10/30/2006 1:07:16 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: llevrok

Even if the world started cooling off instead of warming (which is still debatable), the UN would still want to impose taxes on the developed western democracies (the US).


4 posted on 10/30/2006 1:10:23 PM PST by Disambiguator (If the Democrats were a stock, I would short them.)
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5 posted on 10/30/2006 1:17:44 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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"Have a BEER? Are you kidding? Beer is LOADED with carbon dioxide!";)


6 posted on 10/30/2006 1:25:07 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: llevrok

I need a marketing strategy like GW,Inc. Free advertising for their Send Money Now! campaign.


7 posted on 10/30/2006 1:44:43 PM PST by soloNYer
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"Despite KYOTO - U.N.: Global Warming Gases on Rise Again"

This article would have been written even if Al Gore was President and we signed Kyoto.


8 posted on 10/30/2006 2:12:44 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Obama in 08)
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To: llevrok
There's trouble in Kyoto City, it seems.

EU emissions scheme risks becoming 'pointless' official
23/10/2006

The EU's innovative emissions trading scheme risks becoming "pointless" because members are giving more pollution permits that industrial plants need, the EU environment commissioner said Monday.

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"Much to my regret, taking together the first 17 national allocation plans that have been notified to us proposing emissions caps, that is about 15 percent above the emissions levels in those case,"


9 posted on 10/30/2006 3:29:56 PM PST by ancient_geezer (Don't reform it, Replace it.)
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To: llevrok

No surprise here. The elections are only a week away. Anyway it is probably from all those autos burning daily in France.


10 posted on 10/30/2006 3:32:41 PM PST by dforest (tired of the BS)
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