Beam me to Planet Gore !
BTTT.
What happens if they refuse to pay? Russia will sue them in the "world court"? Kyoto and its other incarnations is the biggest scam in the history of the world.
Dopes.
So just what do ya get from Russia once they get the $4.1 billion? A piece of paper that says you’ve paid for $4.1 billion dollars of carbon credits?
How are the carbon credits transferred to NZ? Do they ship them by ocean or in an airplane? In boxes by post office, UPS or Fedex?
Where does NZ store all those carbon credits? Carbon credit silos? Carbon credit ponds? Carbon credit barns? Carbon credit warehouses?
Just curious.
The English language may have more than 500,000 words, but still lacks adequate terminology to describe how mind-bogglingly stupid these people are.
Even if Russia wasn't using the money to invade other countries, how do payments of this sort, since they can be used for any purpose at all, help fight global warming?
Too damn funny. They pay BIG money for a fake “problem” and then their money is used to kill people.
Niiiice going Kiwis!!
Of course, Russia may use this money to fund wars, but so what? Isn't there also "consensus" that the world is overpopulated? So, the more people the Russians zero out, the better for the environment, eh Kiwis?
“Paging Mr. Gore, paging Mr. Gore...”
Better yet, let’s page McCain!!
If you notice, when Russia was a democracy they opposed Kyoto too. After the current crime syndicate that rules the country took power, they thought about it for awhile and then decided that Kyoto was a way to make money.
Boy, were they ever right.
Little New Zealand sending BILLIONS of dollars to gigantic Russia..... for WHAT, exactly? Just so socialist weasels can feel good about themselves?!? What an idiotic treaty.
“the poor kiwis are paying the Russians 4.1 billion dollars by 2012 to purchase carbon credits to offset the increase in CO2 emissions beyond mandated Kyoto targets”
Why would a country sign that treaty? Abrogate that s**t.
genius, huh?
Russia doesn’t even have to abide by Kyoto and yet they still get paid for it!
Can’t somebody be paying Americans for driving less??? We’re already do it so it would be nice if some guilt-ridden country could pay us for it as well.