UN official for exemption for India, China on carbon emissions

PTI ^ | April 14, 2008

[Tailgunner Joe]

Washington (PTI): India and China should not be bound by the same restrictions on carbon emissions as those imposed on the United States and other developed nations, a top UN official has said.

As US President George W Bush is expected to call on American Congress to pass a law combatting global warming, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN climate treaty secretariat, said India and China should not be bound by the same restrictions that will have to be imposed on the US and other developed countries.

"I don't think that's realistic," de Boer told The Washington Times, making the point that developing nations are still at the "beginning" of development and the developed world have a "historical responsibility" for greenhouse gas emissions.

"Developing countries say, rightly I believe, 'You rich countries have been pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution,'" he said. The top UN climate negotiator has compared China and India to new tenants in an apartment building that has fallen into disrepair and are told upon renting a unit that they will have to pay for capital improvements. "The tenants need to decide among themselves but meanwhile, nobody's maintaining the building while the tenants fight," he added.

The Bush administration has said that while the US is prepared to seriously talk about climate change any final agreement will have to include countries like India and China.

[goldstategop]

Any one who thinks there will be carbon caps in the Third World is smoking pot.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Perdogg]

That’s good news because McCain said that he would not support Kyoto if India and China were not bound by it.

[goldstategop]

Who thinks that will happen? Dream on! Environmental elitists like Algore are out of touch with reality.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[mylife]

I suppose the fat belgian bastage thinks we need to allow them to “catch up”.

[sphinx]

So it’s not especially important that India and China play ball? Guess it’s not the end of the world after all.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[denydenydeny]

If this is the official UN position, then Global Warming is officially a joke, a fraud, a purely political calculation.

Either climate change is real and everyone needs to address this imminent threat to the planet. Or it's not, and it's a stick we can use to beat America with. Which of these possibilities is implied by this story?

Every single member of Congress needs to have this story brought to their attention, over and over, before the next big vote on cap and trade/climate change legislation. If India and China don't have to change, then neither do we.

[kathsua]

The industrialized nations are a minority of the U.N. obviously one of the purposes of the global warming scam is to weaken the older industrialized nations and benefit the third world. China is allowed to pollute the world, but the rest of us are supposed to wreck our economies for a nonexistent threat.

[workerbee]

obviously one of the purposes of the global warming scam is to weaken the older industrialized nations and benefit the third world dictators who populate the UN.

Fixed.

[Red6]

Bush is really a disappointment if he goes down that road.

The global warming scam is not scientific fact, it's not good economics, and what we do will not make a difference other than some politician will fleece his pockets (Gore for example) or make a name for himself. Those going down this road will someday stand along sides of Woodrow Wilson or Jimmy Carter. This is silly and I would steer clear of it not out of spite, but out of respect for the American people and common sense. Activism is not a Presidential trait, and jumping on bandwagons is no sign of leadership either. Already today we subsidies through tax incentives BS green plans in energy from wind to electric bulbs. The average American is dealing with higher food prices largely because of our governments plan to push ethanol which has caused the cost of corn, also used as livestock feed to skyrocket. Fantastic, now Bush on his way out and not worried about the secondary and tertiary effects will pass a quick “save the planet” bill which someone else has to deal with later down the road when the effects of this nonsense becomes apparent. That's political maneuvering at its finest.

Bush won't make any new friends with this, he'll only alienate those who are economically conservative. I truly believe Bush has some deep down desire to make a name for him self. He's trying to carve out his place in history.

[Melinator]

Proof positive that the U.N. is simply a collection of radical communists, who wish to destroy Western Civilisation, so that the final enslavement of the Rest of the World can finally happen.

I think it’s time to start herding the U.N. over a cliff...

[The Toll]

“imposed on the United States”??????

Excuse me? “Imposed” by who?

[colorado tanker]

This reveals the lie about global warming - not even its proponents really believe it's a crisis. If these people really believed the consequences they claim will in fact happen, they wouldn't give China a get out of jail free card. The atmosphere doesn't care where the CO2 comes from. And the fact is there is no way the developed countries can cut back fast enough even to make up for China opening something like one new coal-fired plant a week, much less achieve the reductions in CO2 the jihadis claim we must achieve.

Bottom line is they don't really believe their own BS.

[sionnsar]

If this is the official UN position, then Global Warming the UN is officially a joke, a fraud, a purely political calculation.

But we knew that already. Move its HQ to Harare and improve the world overall.

[sionnsar]

This reveals the lie about global warming - not even its proponents really believe it's a crisis.

[Jonah Johansen]

So where do people see this going?

Almost every week that goes by at least one new report questioning the global warming hysteria is reported.
Not just obscure sources or authors either.

You have an admission from a UN administrator that their has been no warming since 1998. That means that all the so called signs ex:(Arctic ice melting)are false indicators.

Yet, the political elites in Europe and the US have made up their minds and are going forward with all of their green house gas mitigation plans. Even the oil companies are running these pathetic “green” commercials. Companies are buying in to the Ethanol scam.

I don't see anyone on the political horizon right now with the courage to stand up to the hysteria.

[Bob J]

“This reveals the lie about global warming - not even its proponents really believe it’s a crisis.”

It was never about global warming, it was always about the transfer of wealth.

[colorado tanker]

it was always about the transfer of wealth

Yep. Post-Cold War environmentalism is the refuge most socialists fled to after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's all about seizing control over industry and individuals, and they think they've found the perfect wedge in global warming. Hey, what could be better than the very existence of industry, detached dwellings and cars are a threat to the planet!!??

[CyberAnt]

For once .. McCain’s right. India and China are the worst polluters - and the USA is expected to pick up the tab for fixing it. These people can go pound sand!