http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/kyototreaty/ en-us Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:59:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038285/posts Every attempt so far to get emissions under control turns out to be about money. Let's examine an important question. Are the major schemes created by global politicians to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, ostensibly to combat global warming, effective? The answer is no, because they aren't about addressing global warming. They're about making more money for governments and large corporations. Let's start with the Kyoto accord. Will it be effective in lowering global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? No. It wasn't meant to be. Kyoto, a United Nations treaty, exempts the developing world -- 143 of 180 nations which ratified it... Toronto Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038285/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:59:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936355/posts OSLO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore urged governments on Friday to advance by two years a new treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions instead of waiting until the Kyoto pact expires in 2012. Government ministers are meeting at a U.N. conference in Bali, Indonesia, to try to launch talks on a successor to the Kyoto pact to be concluded by 2009, which would allow three years for ratification before the existing pact expires. "I hope they will move the effective date of the new treaty forward by two years so that we don't wait until... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936355/posts#comment Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:04:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933854/posts Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has signed the instrument of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. Mr Rudd says it is the first official act of the new Government and demonstrates the commitment to tackling climate change. The ratification document will be sent to the United Nations and it comes into effect 90 days after that. Mr Rudd says Australia will be a full member of the Kyoto Protocol before March next year. The agreement means Australia's greenhouse gas emissions should not be higher than 8 per cent above 1990 levels. Ratifying the treaty was one of Labor's major campaign promises.... abc.net.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933854/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:08:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930124/posts AUSTRALIA’S new prime minister Kevin Rudd will mark his arrival on the international stage by announcing the withdrawal of his country’s combat troops from Iraq and signing the Kyoto treaty on climate change. Rudd, a republican and former diplomat, swept to power as his Labor party stormed to a landslide victory in yesterday’s elections. Official figures showed Labor had won more than 53% of the vote, compared with just under 47% for the ruling Liberal coalition of John Howard, who had served four terms as prime minister but lost his seat. Computer projections forecast that Labor would secure 86 seats... Timesonline Via Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930124/posts#comment Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:13:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911546/posts A COUPLE of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al's Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to "alarmism and exaggeration" and identified nine major factual errors. For example, the former vice-president predicts a rise in sea levels of 6m "in the near future". "The Armageddon scenario he predicts," declared Burton, "is not in line with the scientific consensus." I'll say. The so-called scientific consensus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests rising sea levels across the next century of somewhere... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911546/posts#comment Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:22:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895549/posts NewsBusters reported Sunday that the media's fascination with record low ice in the Arctic ignored history while relying on satellite data that's only been around since 1979. At the same time, the press have totally boycotted news from the Southern Hemisphere where ice and snow levels are currently at their highest since data have been collected. Pretty convenient wouldn't you agree? Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo wrote at IceCap Tuesday : " While the news focus has been on the lowest ice extent since satellite monitoring began in 1979 for the Arctic, the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895549/posts#comment Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:30:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860964/posts What you probably won't hear at the Live Earth concert: a call for higher taxes on gasoline and fuel. The current crop of US presidential candidates can only wish for the spotlight that will shine on Al Gore Saturday. He's the luminary for a globe-spanning, rock-star-studded, anti-global-warming concert called Live Earth. Most likely, though, his most radical idea won't get a mention. The former vice president (and almost president) wants to replace the current payroll tax with a consumer tax on fossil-fuel use. This "carbon tax" would, of course, raise the price of gasoline and home heating/cooling. And it would... The Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860964/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:50:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1857264/posts Nearly half of U.S. residents who took part in a UPI-Zogby International poll said the United States shouldn't ratify the Kyoto global warming treaty. The agreement -- formally known as the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- has been ratified by about 170 countries and governmental bodies but the United States is not among that group. RightBias News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1857264/posts#comment Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:23:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1830749/posts Former Vice-President Al Gore flew to Canada in order to denounce the Canadian government for its rejection of the Kyoto Treaty. Speaking at a Toronto screening of his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore said that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new climate policy is “a complete and total fraud and fundamentally ignorant.” “Nowhere in this plan does the Canadian government acknowledge my seminal work on this greatest of crises,” Gore complained. “Neither does the plan mention that my company, Generation Investment Management (GIM), offers opportunities for ecologically-minded investors. The government’s failure to incorporate these facts into its climate planning is designed... azconservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1830749/posts#comment Wed, 9 May 2007 15:48:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827299/posts H aven't we heard enough from Al Gore, the U.S. windbag turned Hollywood celebrity who presumes to lecture Canadians on their environmental responsibilities? The failed U.S. presidential candidate spends a lot of time in Canada, perhaps because he finds it fertile ground for self-enrichment. The multi-millionaire with a carbon footprint the size of a Sasquatch was in Toronto at the weekend, preening himself among adoring fans. He was introducing a showing of his Oscar-winning movie An Inconvenient Truth, that apocalyptic vision of a world in meltdown that has earned him the soubriquet of "the world's most famous environmentalist." Gore, whose... The Vancouver Province http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827299/posts#comment Wed, 2 May 2007 18:22:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824048/posts The current debate about global warming is "completely irrational," and people need to start taking a different approach, say two Ottawa scientists. Carleton University science professor Tim Patterson said global warming will not bring about the downfall of life on the planet. Patterson said much of the up-to-date research indicates that "changes in the brightness of the sun" are almost certainly the primary cause of the warming trend since the end of the "Little Ice Age" in the late 19th century. Human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the gas of concern in most plans to curb climate change, appear to... Standard Freeholder (Cornwall, Canada) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824048/posts#comment Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:29:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811619/posts The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming outdoes anything since high moments of the Inquisition. A respectable columnist, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, opened his essay last week by writing, "Sometimes you read something about this administration that's just so shameful it takes your breath away." What asphyxiated this critic was the discovery that a White House official had edited "government climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming." The correspondent advises that the culprit had been an oil-industry lobbyist before joining the administration, and on leaving it he took... The New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811619/posts#comment Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:58:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1794293/posts A pardoner was a charlatan who sold people indulgences, or pardons for their sins. Al Gore and his friends have come up with a modern equivalent: the "carbon offset" to make up for your greenhouse gas emissions. Now, good men, Earth forgive you each trespass, And keep you from the sin of greenhouse gas. My carbon offsets cure and will suffice, So that it gains me gold, or silver brings, Or else, I care not- brooches, spoons or rings. You must embrace fully Al Gore's line of bull, While o'er your eyes we will pull the wool! An offset certificate... P.T. Barnstormer's Carbon Offsets http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1794293/posts#comment Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:26:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793604/posts With a winter that brought snow to Tucson, Ariz., and 70-degree weather to New York City -- along with an Academy Award for the global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" -- climate change has become more ingrained in the public consciousness. Not everyone may be willing to overhaul their lives to accommodate the environment, but more people are opting for the rising number of options offered by companies to neutralize their "carbon footprints," meaning the amount of energy they consume. Most carbon-offset programs require consumers to make small payments that in turn go to programs that create renewable energy or absorb... Wall Street Journal (full article available only to subscribers) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793604/posts#comment Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:53:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793589/posts There is an irresistible quality to the story about Al Gore's energy-hungry Tennessee home, replete with a heated poolhouse that burns more natural gas -- $500 a month worth -- than most of us can afford to use while heating houses that shelter people, as opposed to swimming lanes. Did you know that Mr. Gore's house uses more electricity in a month than the average household does in a year? Wall Street Journal (link is available only to subscribers) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793589/posts#comment Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:28:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791092/posts In the late Middle Ages, professional pardoners sold indulgences to Roman Catholic parishioners with the promise that their sins would be forgiven. It was one of the practices that led to the success of Martin Luther's Reformation. Today, some environmentally conscious people purchase so-called carbon offsets to compensate for the CO2 emissions they are personally responsible for. ...At least 50 companies sell offsets for air travel for between $5 and $30 per ton of CO2. Some of them sell offsets for other activities as well. Chemical & Engineering News (membership required for online access) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791092/posts#comment Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:44:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791084/posts You can neutralize the rest of your pollution—through offsets. When you buy offsets, you essentially pay someone to reduce or remove global warming pollution in your name. For example, when you buy 10 tons of carbon offsets, the seller guarantees that 10 fewer tons of global warming pollution go into the atmosphere. While the pollution you produce yourself is the same, you get the credit for that 10-ton reduction. Environmental Defense http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791084/posts#comment Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:25:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784650/posts Timothy Ball is no wishy-washy skeptic of global warming. The Canadian climatologist, who has a Ph.D. in climatology from the University of London and taught at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years, says that the widely propagated “fact” that humans are contributing to global warming is the “greatest deception in the history of science.” Ball has made no friends among global warming alarmists by saying that global warming is caused by the sun, that global warming will be good for us and that the Kyoto Protocol “is a political solution to a nonexistent problem without scientific justification." Needless to... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784650/posts#comment Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:05:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781385/posts Following in John Kerry's footsteps, former Vice President Al Gore was in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday basically blaming the world's problems on the country that made him a very wealthy man. As reported by the Associated Press (h/t Drudge, emphasis mine throughout): "Emerging economies such as China are justified in holding back on fighting greenhouse gas emissions until richer polluters like the United States do more to solve the problem, former Vice President Al Gore said Wdenesday." Of course, Al Gore didn't mebntion that one of the fastest growing economies in the world is China's or that it is believed that... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781385/posts#comment Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:15:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779111/posts It's not the higher cost of corn per se that has Mr. Calderón denouncing "speculators" and "hoarders." Rather, it's what rising corn prices are doing to push up the cost of tortillas -- the most fundamental of Mexican staples. ...The sharp increase in Mexican corn prices, which fueled the tortilla price spike, followed big price increases for corn on international markets over the past year. The main cause, according to most commodity analysts, was the U.S. decision to subsidize ethanol made from corn. Growers who previously marketed their harvests to food and livestock companies suddenly have new demand from ethanol... Wall Street Journal, 1/29/07, page A16 (SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED TO ACCESS LINK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779111/posts#comment Sun, 4 Feb 2007 18:59:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1775636/posts Kimberly Strassel's "If the Cap Fits" (Wall Street Journal) examines the real motives of the Climate Action Partnership (CAP): to get the government to mandate or subsidize the purchase of their products, while rewarding them for implementing existing business plans. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrasselpw/?id=110009578 I therefore propose that we refer to the Climate Action Partnership (CAP) as the Corporate Ripoff Association of Profiteers. I leave development of a suitable acronym to the reader. Stentorian.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1775636/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:13:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775114/posts Democrats want to flog the global warming theme through 2008 and they'll take what help they can get, even if it means cozying up to executives whose goal is to enrich their firms. Right now, the corporate giants calling for a mandatory carbon cap serve too useful a political purpose for anyone to delve into their baser motives.The Climate Action Partnership, a group of 10 major companies that made headlines this week with its call for a national limit on carbon dioxide emissions, would surely feign shock at such an accusation. After all, their plea was carefully timed to coincide... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775114/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:23:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770760/posts Climate Change: In Congress, business and the media, those who urge "doing something" about global warming are moving ahead with an agenda that seeks to stifle free speech and scientific inquiry, and kill the economy. The announcement that, as part of her "first 100 hours," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) intends to create a special committee to create new laws for global warming shouldn't be a surprise. Pelosi is among a large group of global warming advocates who believe November's election was their big chance to slash our use of greenhouse gases. In addition to Pelosi's panel,... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770760/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:56:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1761920/posts I heard that Al Gore has come up with some new ideas and observations about global warming. (1) If global warming is not stopped, warming in the Arctic will thaw out the Blob, which was dropped near the North Pole after characters played by Steve McQueen and others froze it with carbon dioxide fire extinguishers. (2) If the government will not enact carbon taxes and carbon emission caps, it must build giant refrigerators to be operated with their doors open to cool the environment. (3) The Laws of Thermodynamics, which outlaw the construction of perpetual-motion machines and also the generation... Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1761920/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:07:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733392/posts The United States is doing better lately than some countries in restraining growth of global warming gases, and it isn't likely to change its stand against mandatory controls, a U.S. negotiator said Monday as 5,000 delegates opened the annual U.N. climate conference. Among those nations that do accept the Kyoto Protocol's emissions caps, "with few exceptions you're seeing those emissions rise again," Harlan Watson told reporters. The chief American delegate was defending the U.S. position as an industrial country that rejects Kyoto's obligatory reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists blame for global warming. ~snip~The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an... SF Gate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733392/posts#comment Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:18:13 GMT