Posted on 12/17/2007 4:05:30 AM PST by ricks_place
A week that could have brought important progress on climate change ended in disappointment.
In Bali, where delegates from 187 countries met to begin framing a new global warming treaty, Americas negotiators were in full foot-dragging mode, acting as spoilers rather than providing the leadership the world needs.
In Washington, caving to pressures from the White House, the utilities and the oil companies, the Senate settled for a merely decent energy bill instead of a very good one that would have set the country on a clear path to a cleaner energy future.
The news from Bali was particularly disheartening. The delegates agreed to negotiate by 2009 a new and more comprehensive global treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol. (Kyoto expires in 2012 and requires that only industrialized nations reduce their production of greenhouse gases.) They pledged for the first time to address deforestation, which accounts for one-fifth of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions. And they received vague assurances from China which will soon overtake the United States as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and other emerging powers that they would seek measurable, reportable and verifiable emissions cuts.
From the United States the delegates got nothing, except a promise to participate in the forthcoming negotiations. Even prying that out of the Bush administration required enormous effort.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
There was so much clucking in this editorial, I wanted to order a 12-piece bucket.
>>>50% of all statistics are made up.<<<
Reminds me of a quote on a postcard I saw several decades ago:
“According to government figures, forty percent (40%) of all statistics are totally worthless”.
First, despite wresting control of Congress from the Republicans, their fellow-traveler Democrat buddies in the House and Senate have been miserable failures at advancing their dreams of World Socialism.
Then, despite the Times' heroic efforts to support the enemy, both by exposing classified information and by attempting to derail the use of the most effective anti-terrorist tools by the US through baldfaced half-truths and propagandizing, the Bush administration has triumphed again and again over their obstruction of the WOT.
Also, in a turn of events that must be unbearable to the Times' defeat-mongers, the tide has turned in Iraq, and people are even starting to use the "V" word to describe the war and its aftermath.
To add insult to injury, it was their very own comrade Nancy Pelosi who personally drove the stake into the heart of the "impeach Vice President Cheney" movement.
On top of all that, even after digesting this tear-jerker of a climate-change-foot-dragging-we're-all-doomed editorial, it's difficult for even the most perceptive reader to fully fathom the depth and extent of the hand-wringing, wailing, despair, alarm and sheer, gut-wrenching terror they must be feeling at the Times due to the latest success of the Bush administration's efforts in Bali to destroy life on the planet Earth as we know it.
Oh, and the recent humiliation delivered to Chavez and his goons must have put a decided chill into the Times' revolutionary fervor.
Just about the only things going in their direction these days are their hope that Iran will finally be able to develop their nuclear weapons without any interference by the West, and the prospect that Putin may be rebuilding the Soviet Union and resurrecting the Russian Communist Party, but even that joyful news (for the Times) must be tempered by realistic views of the enormity of the difficult task ahead for Putin and his old KGB buddies.
So let's all shed a cynical tear or two as the world's smallest violin wails its somber notes while the NYT's editorial board doubles up on their antidepressant meds...
Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down (Pres Bush caves to PC crowd again)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939938/posts
U.S. Accepts U.N. Climate Change Compromise Proposal (Barf alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939847/posts
Agreement Reached at Bali Climate Conference
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939820/posts
Most here were unable to grasp what a setback for the Kyoto crowd this was. Maybe the NY Times spelling it out will help.
(”The moratorium on logging has prevented newspapers from printing enough papers to make a profit!”)
A few years ago, there was a terrific political cartoon about Kyoto. It showed a couple of rural fellows sitting in chairs, huddled around a nice warm pot-bellied stove. Behind them were stacks of rolled-up documents. One fellow said to the other: “The fire’s dying down. Throw another one of them Kyoto Global Warming documents into the stove.”
Same here in PA.
But not to worry, whatever the climate is - warmer than usual, colder than usual, drier than usual, wetter than usual, more hurricanes, less hurricanes - it's ALL blamed on global warming.
I disagree...
I think they should have gone and done more to “drag their feet” including keeping their “NO” vote rather than appearing to have “backed down”.
This just allows the communists to say that they can bully us to their position. That was a mistake, imho...but it was not a mistake to try to derail the talks if thats what could have happened.
We weren’t going to “win” no matter what we did....unless we fully capitulated and groveled for forgivness[like we will if the dumbles win the presidency].
“In Washington, caving to pressures from the White House ...”
Geez, last week it was the White House who caved.
So, nothing’s really changed here, its just the same old unpredictable weather we’ve always had!
While Global Warming implies increasing temperatures; Climate Change includes both increasing and decreasing temperatures! Heads I win tails you lose! /sarc/
Really. If what you claim is true, nobody is a winner. I thought that was the point of the global warming/climate change hysteria?
Climate Change also encompasses drought, floods, hurricanes, and other "extreme" weather. The point of Global Warming is to gain a steady revenue stream for the United Nations. That revenue stream gains the UN independence from US funding and is a step toward one world governance.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ping~~
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