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It’s All Over: Kyoto Protocol Loses Four Big Nations
watts up with that? ^ | Anthony Watts

Posted on 05/30/2011 9:39:42 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Posted on by Anthony Watts

Image: Sierra Club Compass

Saturday, 28 May 2011 16:58 Agence France-Presse

DEAUVILLE, France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty, European diplomats have said.

The future of the Kyoto Protocol has become central to efforts to negotiate reductions of carbon emissions under the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, whose annual meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9.

Developed countries signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. They agreed to legally binding commitments on curbing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

Those pledges expire at the end of next year. Developing countries say a second round is essential to secure global agreements.

But the leaders of Russian, Japan and Canada confirmed they would not join a new Kyoto agreement, the diplomats said.

They argued that the Kyoto format did not require developing countries, including China, the world’s No. 1 carbon emitter, to make targeted emission cuts.

At last Thursday’s G8 dinner the US President, Barack Obama, confirmed Washington would not join an updated Kyoto Protocol, the diplomats said.

The US, the second-largest carbon emitter, signed the protocol in 1997 but in 2001 the then president, George W. Bush, said he would not put it to the Senate for ratification.

Agence France-Press, 29 May 2011

h/t to Dr. Benny Peiser


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; climatechange; g8summit; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; haha; kyoto; kyotoprotocol
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Al Gore in "I Started a Joke." (YouTube)
21 posted on 05/30/2011 10:34:54 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

the kyoto treaty was design to target US, and not anyone else since there is not punishment to those who fail to meet the target

I remember the uproar from the media when whenever Kyoto Treaty and Bush were mentioned. They blame Bush for all the problem. They’re letting OBama off the hook as usual. This is how corrupt the media is. It never been about the environment


22 posted on 05/30/2011 10:35:50 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Lancey Howard

Exactly. His “political capital” is overdrawn.


23 posted on 05/30/2011 10:37:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: Baynative
"...the fanatics are still working on AGENDA 21 to push for U.N. dominance over America."

YEP...from the bottom up....cities, counties..... Bay/others....want to know more? Listen to our Agenda 21 show on www.ISPYONSALEM.com (It's an indepth discussion of the issue with Tom DeWeese of American Policy Center who has been following it for years)

24 posted on 05/30/2011 10:41:25 PM PDT by goodnesswins (...both islam and the democrat plantation thrive on poverty)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The real “emission” these control freaks want is money from your
earnings “redistributed” to their bank accounts. The “environment”
is simply the panic du jour to advance their money grabbing agenda.
Liars, frauds and leeches dressed in finery. Expel them wherever they
are discovered.


25 posted on 05/30/2011 10:50:31 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama’s policies are so yesterday.
26 posted on 05/30/2011 11:58:58 PM PDT by Chgogal (American Mugabe, get your arse out of my bank, my car, my doctor's office & my elec. utility.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The US, the second-largest carbon emitter, signed the protocol in 1997 but in 2001 the then president, George W. Bush, said he would not put it to the Senate for ratification.

Ernest, the msm's sad case of BDS always leads them to "forget" to mention that under Clinton (1997), in a sense of the Senate vote, the US Senate voted 97-0 against Kyoto.

27 posted on 05/31/2011 12:13:08 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Bockscar; grey_whiskers; WL-law; IrishCatholic; Whenifhow; SolitaryMan; ...
Thanx for the ping Ernest_at_the_Beach !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

28 posted on 05/31/2011 2:33:00 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

29 posted on 05/31/2011 2:52:34 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: Lancey Howard

Exactly. Ubama is using his evil twin Lisa Jackson at EPA to terrorize and extort (It’s the Chicago way) our productive sectors and our energy producers. With no carbon taxes, no carbon trading and no Kyoto Treaty, Ubama and Jackson must make their eco-zealots constituencies happy in other ways


30 posted on 05/31/2011 3:00:33 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: Lancey Howard

Exactly.


31 posted on 05/31/2011 4:19:06 AM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Canada (under PM Harper) does the right thing, AGAIN.


32 posted on 05/31/2011 5:32:10 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Slugs and Bitter Clingers Unite.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...

Canada is one of the four.


33 posted on 05/31/2011 6:42:20 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wait a minute..........I thought Bush's refusal to accept this treaty caused Katrina.

Why would anyone diss Kyoto? I'm sooooo confused.... ;*)

34 posted on 05/31/2011 6:51:59 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Clive

Good news, indeed!


35 posted on 05/31/2011 7:06:20 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: SatinDoll
Nobody twisted Obama's arm on this . . . U.S. politics simply kicked him in the face.

There wasn't a chance in hell that the U.S. Senate would ever have ratified the treaty (they rejected the first Kyoto accord by a vote of something like 98-0), and with most of the U.S. coming out of its worst winter in decades the Obama administration would have been seen as a complete joke if it ever signed onto the second Kyoto accord.

36 posted on 05/31/2011 7:36:06 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Always nice to get some good news.... thanks.


37 posted on 05/31/2011 12:39:12 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: Texas Fossil

>> May the corpse of the UN rest in the sands of the sea, so far out that they will never be seen again.

That’s like music to my ears. Poetry, even.


38 posted on 05/31/2011 6:15:32 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Good. Maybe these countries will go further and give up on their own greenhouse gas restriction plans.


39 posted on 05/31/2011 6:32:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I hate politically correct sorosmonkey superheroes!)
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To: beethovenfan

He had himself set up to be the first trillionaire in the cap and trade commodies scam. Man, he gave it his all.


40 posted on 05/31/2011 8:35:54 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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