Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/06/2009 3:16:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.
Since about half the planet's climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its people, it makes sense to follow these rich folks when setting national targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the authors wrote on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study suggests setting a uniform international cap on how much carbon dioxide each person could emit in order to limit global emissions; since rich people emit more, they are the ones likely to reach or exceed this cap, whether they live in a rich country or a poor one.
For example, if world leaders agree to keep carbon emissions in 2030 at the same level they are now, no one person's emissions could exceed 11 tons of carbon each year. That means there would be about a billion "high emitters" in 2030 out of a projected world population of 8.1 billion.
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Hopefully in the near future, these enviro-kooks will be seen as the criminals that they are.
Who doesn’t know by now that “Cap and Trade” is nothing but a wealth redistribution scheme?
At the moment that would be the United States. We'd make everything the world needs and everybody else could take extended vacations
—just like other forms of marxist redistribution, there aren’t enough “rich” to go around to everybody that will want a slice of the pie—
Great idea. Let’s start by tracking Obama, Biden, Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, Schwarzenegger, Henry Waxman, and every other liberal damn fool that wants us to cut back to living in grass huts while they fly around the world “Saving Mother Gaia”.
Is Soros included in that list?
But it is July 6th in the Northern Hemisphere and I woke up shivering at 1:30 AM and had to throw on another blanket. Temp was 54 degrees when I awoke at 5:30 AM. I am afraid that if we all reduce our footprints any more that I will freeze to death in mid-summer in the great central valley of California.
How about the po’ folks who whelp a dozen little carbon emitters?
and people who eat rice- world’s most egregious carb emitting crop
Start with Gore
Bump #11.
Who doesn’t know by now that “Cap and Trade” is nothing but a wealth redistribution scheme?
What we need to do is take all the wealth from the Hollywood elites and the Environmentalists and send it to Nigeria.
Right on!
Or our jetsetting Congress-critters, who take family and staff on expensive "fact-finding" missions, using military aircraft but reporting commercial flight rates?
Since the US is by far the wealthiest nation in the world, this is simply a transparent attempt to blame “AFW” on America, while giving a pass to places like China, which are far dirtier than we are.
American Furniture Warehouse ????
lol !!!
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