“Smart woman. Maybe the world is waking up. Except, all three of the remaining candidates are ready to sign off on this fraud.”
And how are we going to measure it? Kyoto is exactly what it says in the article. It is a Socialist money sucking scheme. For American politicians it is a vote machine that will never be implemented.
She is right the principal purpose was to disadvantage the US economy.
They retroactively chose 1990 because that was just before the Soviet Union imploded, meaning the European Union was able to take advantage of the dramatic drop-off in GHG emissions of the former Soviet satellites which later became part of Europe, countries which dramatically cut their GHG emissions not by doing anything, but by suffering a recession.... Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism, under which developed countries fund environmental projects in developing ones, is rife with charges of corruption and profiteering. Even if every one of the 37 member states in Kyoto (including us) required to reduce their GHG emissions (as opposed to the 143, which aren't) meet their emission targets (which they won't), the coal plants China and India alone are building will more than wipe out all the cuts Kyoto calls for.
And this is the deal the Conservatives say we need to be part of?
---<>---<>---<>---<>---<>---
Brilliant points --- I am wondering exactly how many people are actually understanding this by now? I hadn't heard that the Europeans are starting to get upset about their green taxes. I hope they start an actual revolt over that.
For American politicians it is a vote machine that will never be implemented.
Ah. You're an optimist, I see.