France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax

NY Times ^ | 2/1/07 | Katrin Bennhold

[LibWhacker]

PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012.

He said that he welcomed last week’s State of the Union address in which President Bush described climate change as a “serious challenge” and acknowledged that a growing number of American politicians now favor emissions cuts.

But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.

“A carbon tax is inevitable,” Mr. Chirac said. “If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay.”

[OESY]

Brighter sun adds to fears of climate change
The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | March 26, 2006 | Unsigned
Posted on 03/26/2006 11:29:27 AM EST by aculeus

A series of independent studies around the world show a significant rise in the amount of sunshine penetrating the atmosphere to be absorbed by the earth’s surface and turned into heat.

The research will concern climate researchers who are already predicting a rapid rise in global temperatures due to man-made emissions of so-called greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.

“The enhanced warming we have seen since the 1990s along with phenomena such as the widespread melting of glaciers could well be due to this increased intensity of sunlight compounding the effect of greenhouse gases,” said Professor Martin Wild of the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science in Zurich, Switzerland....



Global Warming on Mars WORLD VIEWS ^ | Joe Carter
Posted on 02/01/2007 11:21:28 AM EST by Moseley

In its ninth year in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has made a number of surprising discoveries. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/20050920a.html For three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress....



WSJ: Will Al Gore Melt?
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 18, 2007 | FLEMMING ROSE and BJORN LOMBORG
Posted on 01/18/2007 1:59:49 PM EST by OESY

...Al Gore is on a mission. If he has his way, we could end up choosing a future, based on dubious claims, that could cost us, according to a U.N. estimate, $553 trillion over this century.




COMMENT: If we are going to spend $553 trillion over the next 100 years as the UN and France advocate, and forget about the solvency of our Social Security and Medicare programs, shouldn't we at least spend it on our most pristine environments like Mars--just as we have avoided disturbing the pristine mosquitoes and black flies in ANWAR? /sarc.

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[dforest]

Yeah, that was no comedy. Just an exercise in selfishness and incompetence. And they even whined about presenting the truth. Anything to provide cover for those phonies. I would like to get Jack to interrogate Sandy Burglar.

[listenhillary]

I wonder if China and India going to be charged the tax also?

Both are exempt from Kyoto treaty last I looked. I guess not, they probably both signed the treaty while trying not to laugh their butts off.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, Kyoto has very little to do with results - it's all about control. From 2000 - 2004 the U.S. CO₂ emissions increases were at 2.1%; the EU's were at 4.5%. (Source - WSJ, 18 Dec 2006).

[UpAllNight]

-I wonder if China and India going to be charged the tax also? Both are exempt from Kyoto treaty last I looked. I guess not, they probably both signed the treaty while trying not to laugh their butts off.--

China has 800 million liveing in poverty at about $2 per day income. China says they need 50 million new jobs a year to fix their economy. Reducing our output will be a blip compared to China's increases. OTOH, we can best help by developing new technology that will help China (for a price, of course).

[sauropod]

Just try, Jaques.

[mainepatsfan]

It's never good when Jack tells someone, "I don't believe you."

[Former Proud Canadian]

I propose a 'bailing your ass out of two wars tax' on any European country that considers charging the U.S. a carbon tax.

LOL

[reagan_fanatic]

Why people don't take the french seriously...

[george76]

We do not buy French stuff,

Let them raise their taxes to make their stuff sell even less often.

Fou

[albee]

"If France is going to be poor and miserable because of it's socialist policies, everyone has to be poor and miserable because of Frances policies."

France is still under the delusion that it is a "world power" and can dictate their daydreams to nations that could wipe France, it's people and its Army off the face of the earth in a week.

Hell, they can't even manage the "Asians" in their own country.

[Edgerunner]

Don't forget our "Nuclear Umbrella Tax" for the cold war expenses...

[sbhitchc]

My family always considered this the "We weren't the first to run" Arch

[Edgerunner]

Stop!!! Your killing me...

[pepsionice]

The amusing thing...is that if global warming were actual...we wouldn't waste a second in taxation to fix the issue...because that won't do what absolutely must be done. If real...then you shut down factories, airports, and universities...and get people to grown enough food in a garden. Taxes merely pass fake feeling of accomplishing something while you still do nothing. This is the real goal of global warming/cooling fools...a tax upon using consumption...nothing else but pure socialism in work.

[colorado tanker]

Jacques is a has-been. Sarkozy wouldn't go there IMHO.

Of course, a trade war could be fun. I guarandamtee ya France would not win.

[TheDotte]

about 8.9%

[Principled]

I propose a 'bailing your ass out of two wars tax' on any European country that considers charging the U.S. a carbon tax.

New keyboard needed!

[daybreakcoming]

How about this Jack? You can take the tax out of the $$ you owed the US after WW2 which we forgave but now we'll UN-forgive it.