World carbon emissions overshoot "budget": PwC (the scam continues)

The world has emitted extra greenhouse gases this century equivalent to the annual totals of China and the United States above a maximum for avoiding the worst of climate change, a study estimated on Tuesday.

Global accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers said in the report that almost all major nations, including European Union countries that pride themselves on climate policies, were lagging since 2000 in a push for low-carbon growth.

It said the world was already far above a "budget" of total emissions of 1,300 billion tons of carbon dioxide from 2000-50 which it estimated as the maximum permissible while avoiding the worst of climate change.

"For 2000-08, the cumulative global budget overshoot, or 'carbon debt', is estimated at around 13 billion tons of carbon dioxide -- roughly equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of China and the United States combined in 2008," it said.

AUGUST 1997 : (WASHINGTON DC : THE WHITE HOUSE : ENRON CEO KEN LAY & BRITISH PETROLEUM’S LORD JOHN BROWNE , BOTH KEY PROPONENTS OF THE CARBON CREDIT SCHEME, MEET WITH US PRES BILL CLINTON AND VP AL GORE IN THE OVAL OFFICE TO DEVELOP CLINTON ADMIN POSITIONS FOR KYOTO TREATY NEGOTIATIONS —See GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE) Whatever its impact on the environment, the cap-and-trade carbon scheme is sure to boost the economic and political prospects of people and groups that are behind it. Before the company collapsed under the weight of financial scandal, Enron under CEO Ken Lay was a key proponent of the cap-and-trade idea. So was BP’s Lord John Browne, before he resigned last May under a cloud of personal scandal. In August 1997, Lay and Browne met with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Gore in the Oval Office to develop administration positions for the Kyoto negotiations that resulted in an international treaty to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
The U.S. Senate voted 95 to 0 not to ratify the Kyoto treaty in 1997. But that hasn’t stopped Al Gore. ————————The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade
Human Events ^ | 10/03/2007 | Deborah Corey Barnes
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