Kyoto's Long Goodbye [Bush G-8 leadership]

The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 11, 2008

[Uncle Ralph]

. . . In other words, the G-8 signed on to what has been the White House approach since 2002. The U.S. has relied on the arc of domestic energy programs now in place, like fuel-economy standards and efficiency regulations, along with billions in subsidies for low-carbon technology. Europe threw in with the central planning of the Kyoto Protocol -- and the contrast is instructive. Between 2000 and 2006, U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions fell 3%. Of the 17 largest world-wide emitters, only France reduced by more.

So despite environmentalist sanctimony about the urgent need for President Bush and the U.S. to "take the lead" on global warming, his program has done better than most everybody else's. That won't make the evening news. But the fact is that the new G-8 document is best understood as a second look at the "leadership" of . . . you know who.

[wastedyears]

Some loopholes are good.

[goldstategop]

The G-8 announcement is in the wastebasket. No one seriously believes any one will make cuts of that magnitude. Not by 2050 they won't. Its all PR fluff.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Enchante]

"It gets worse. The offsets are routed through a U.N. bureaucracy that makes them far more valuable in Europe than the cost of the actual efficiency improvements. So far, Kyoto-world has paid more than €4.7 billion to eliminate an obscure greenhouse gas called HFC-23; the necessary incinerators cost less than €100 million. Most of the difference in such schemes goes to the foreign government, such as China's communist regime."

Wow, those UN-bureaucrats sure do know how to screw things up!! Why not let them run the world?

[Rudder]

So despite environmentalist sanctimony about the urgent need for President Bush and the U.S. to "take the lead" on global warming, his program has done better than most everybody else's.

I get it. They're all friggin' idiots, but Bush is less of an idiot than the rest.

[Uncle Ralph]

"They're all friggin' idiots, but Bush is less of an idiot than the rest."

You nailed it, champ.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SunkenCiv]

...the G-8 signed on to what has been the White House approach since 2002... like fuel-economy standards and efficiency regulations, along with billions in subsidies for low-carbon technology... Between 2000 and 2006, U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions fell 3%. Of the 17 largest world-wide emitters, only France reduced by more. So despite environmentalist sanctimony about the urgent need for President Bush and the U.S. to "take the lead" on global warming, his program has done better than most everybody else's.

...including the UN's Oil for Food. ;')