[cogitator]

I love a good tussle.

I love the line that "Pressure is mounting on Washington to ratify the Kyoto Protocol."

That's not going to happen. Next item, please.

[nightdriver]

"...we call on governments to be responsible and to build the international framework to tackle climate change..."

Just more mush-mouth talk for "Gimme your bucks!!"

[dead]

After Bush's renunciation of the Kyoto Protocol in March last year, the administration slapped high tariffs on steel imports and gave a huge subsidy boost to American farmers, further fuelling resentment and exposing a deep and almost ideological transatlantic divide.

So split the difference – keep the Kyoto Protocol dead and buried, but scrap the steel tariffs, and drop the subsidies to American farmers.

It’s a win-win for everybody, foreign and domestic, who isn’t looking for a US government handout.

[mc5cents]

meanwhile believe that a fraction of the billion dollars a day shelled out to already rich farmers in Europe and the United States would allow them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and enhance the world's collective wealth. collectivists.

[SkyPilot]

Thing will cool down when the delegates to the "Earth Summit" return to their 5-Star Hotel at the end of the day and can put down on some of that 1,000 pounds of lobster, 4,400 pounds of sirloin, 2,000 cases of champagne, and 5,000 cases of beer that were reported in the British press.

[bandleader]

The temperature is rising there for one reason and one reason only!After all of these "concerned?" A*SHoles have consumed all of that lobster,caviar,foie gras,and filet mignon,they have all been overcome with FLATULENCE!!!!!!!!

[Cobra Scott]

Why do they always have these summits in cool climates?

Jo-berg in August isn't exactly sweltering, Nor is Oslo, at any time. Why aren't they holding the thing somewhere hot, like Baghdad?

Well, we can dream, anyway...

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

ping

[Willie Green]

Related thread on progress at the Summit:
EU 'sell-out' is massive blow for renewable energy plans

[McGavin999]

They're all so generous.........with OUR money.

[MissAmericanPie]

They must think we are stupid. One "meager" percent of our GNP equals more than other nations input combined, I'm guessing.

Other nations must remain poor and on foot if the environment is not to be harmed further by more cars on the road, more air conditioning, more pollution from former third world nations that become economically viable.

If they become well enough off economically to pollute, then their pollution, combined with the pollution of industrialized nations, would just do the poor planet in.

So by not giving them money and leaving them in the culture they hold so dear, we are not only saving them from themselves, we are saving the planet. Where's the gratitude?

[Post Toasties]

The decision of US President George W. Bush to send Secretary of State Colin Powell to Johannesburg in his place to sit below 104 heads of state and governments from other nations while he himself takes a holiday has infuriated many delegates, who take the decision as an indication of the disdain of what they see as a bullying nation for the opinion of the rest of the world.

The author of this article has it backwards. The US has disdain for the pressure tactics of the bullying pro Kyoto nations.

[Taxman]

What these Marxist dingbats do not realize is that the US became rich and powerful because for the first 126 years (1787 - 1913) of our existence, we were a FRee people and government, for the most part, was not hindering FRee economic trade between willing partners.

Rather than convene a seminar on the subject, suffice it to say that if these dingbat government people would get the hell out of the way, and stop stealing their people's time, talent and treasure, most of the world's people would be rich.

But then there would be no need for government dingbats. Can't have that, can we?

Certainly not in a Post-Modern, 21st Century World! [Sarcasm off]