If the NYT and the IPCC are disappointed then all is not lost.
At least the NYT is not demonstrating any bias here.
As a farmer, I’m disappointed by the climate just about every day. It never does what I want.
The government already taxes big oil. They tax them at the pump. Citizen's pay for the privilege of buying gasoline from Big Oil and are penalized to the tune of about 20% for it. Taxes in other ranks (not of the pump) would only add to the price at the pump and the collections the government would receive. There is no such thing as a "company" paying taxes. The cost of taxes and of doing business is all rolled into the price that consumers pay, especially with regards to commodities.
The Kyoto Protocol: A Post-Mortem
S. Fred Singer
It may not be a household word, but by now the Kyoto Protocol has become a well-known political slogan. President Bush has called it “fundamentally flawed,” while some environmentalists in America and Europe have said it is essential for saving the Earth’s climate and the future of humanity itself. Many on the right have called it economic madness, while for many on the left it is an ecological article of faith. There seems to be no position in between.
The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty intended to ration the use of energy in order to address the concerns of those who believe that we face a global warming catastrophe. These worriers include not only environmental groups and anti-capitalist radicals, but also a surprising number of mainstream technocrats throughout the West, such as former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and Sir David King, the scientific advisor to the British government, who equates the threat of warming with that of international terrorism.
But the facts have always made it clear that Kyoto would be outrageously costly and completely ineffective—as designed, it would not even noticeably influence the climate. And more importantly, in light of recent developments, the treaty is essentially defunct. Now may be the ideal moment to reexamine the origins and shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol, and to learn its lessons before future global warming treaties repeat its mistakes.
S. Fred Singer, “The Kyoto Protocol: A Post-Mortem,” The New Atlantis, Number 4, Winter 2004, pp. 66-73.
Full Text http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/4/singer.htm
It's rare that I am in agreement with the NYT. US negotiators should not have gone the the conference in "foot dragging mode." Rather they sould not hove gone to the conference at all.
It makes me feel so good to know that the New York Times and a bunch of European envirowhackos are disappointed.
I think they are blowing sunshine up our .... shorts. I think they are trying to deceive us as there will be glaciers covering Wisconsin in a short 10,000 years.
There was so much clucking in this editorial, I wanted to order a 12-piece bucket.
First, despite wresting control of Congress from the Republicans, their fellow-traveler Democrat buddies in the House and Senate have been miserable failures at advancing their dreams of World Socialism.
Then, despite the Times' heroic efforts to support the enemy, both by exposing classified information and by attempting to derail the use of the most effective anti-terrorist tools by the US through baldfaced half-truths and propagandizing, the Bush administration has triumphed again and again over their obstruction of the WOT.
Also, in a turn of events that must be unbearable to the Times' defeat-mongers, the tide has turned in Iraq, and people are even starting to use the "V" word to describe the war and its aftermath.
To add insult to injury, it was their very own comrade Nancy Pelosi who personally drove the stake into the heart of the "impeach Vice President Cheney" movement.
On top of all that, even after digesting this tear-jerker of a climate-change-foot-dragging-we're-all-doomed editorial, it's difficult for even the most perceptive reader to fully fathom the depth and extent of the hand-wringing, wailing, despair, alarm and sheer, gut-wrenching terror they must be feeling at the Times due to the latest success of the Bush administration's efforts in Bali to destroy life on the planet Earth as we know it.
Oh, and the recent humiliation delivered to Chavez and his goons must have put a decided chill into the Times' revolutionary fervor.
Just about the only things going in their direction these days are their hope that Iran will finally be able to develop their nuclear weapons without any interference by the West, and the prospect that Putin may be rebuilding the Soviet Union and resurrecting the Russian Communist Party, but even that joyful news (for the Times) must be tempered by realistic views of the enormity of the difficult task ahead for Putin and his old KGB buddies.
So let's all shed a cynical tear or two as the world's smallest violin wails its somber notes while the NYT's editorial board doubles up on their antidepressant meds...
Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down (Pres Bush caves to PC crowd again)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939938/posts
U.S. Accepts U.N. Climate Change Compromise Proposal (Barf alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939847/posts
Agreement Reached at Bali Climate Conference
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939820/posts
Most here were unable to grasp what a setback for the Kyoto crowd this was. Maybe the NY Times spelling it out will help.
(”The moratorium on logging has prevented newspapers from printing enough papers to make a profit!”)
“In Washington, caving to pressures from the White House ...”
Geez, last week it was the White House who caved.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~