Posted on 12/07/2007 3:39:02 PM PST by BradJ
BALI, Indonesia (Dec. 7) - The United States and Saudi Arabia are the world's worst "climate sinners," environmental groups said Friday, citing their high and mounting greenhouse gas emissions and inadequate government policies to combat global warming.
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There was a time when people like these would have been labeled as crackpots or lunatics and ignored.
The Saudis should plant more trees.
Where would these environmental imbeciles rather go swimming: in a lake in China, Russia, Mexico, anywhere in Africa... or the U.S.? Whose air would they rather breathe? Right. Global warming is certainly a religion but it is one whose sacrament is extortion.
Bite me!
Statistics reveal that the US is doing much better than Canada and Europe in controlling greenhouse gases.
They talk the talk, but we walk the walk.
Here’s an article posted in FR a couple of days ago:
AN INCONVENIENT REDUCTION ; U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide fell by 1.8 percent from 2005 to 2006.
ncpa.org ^ | December 3, 2007
While thousands of government officials, diplomats, non-governmental organizations and journalists gather in Bali this week for the United Nations’ global warming meeting, it’s likely that little will be said about America’s successful record on curbing emissions without a cap system, says the Wall Street Journal.
Consider:
The Bush Administration announced recently that U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide fell by 1.8 percent from 2005 to 2006. Output of all greenhouse gases was down 1.5 percent last year; all this while the American economy grew by 2.9 percent. Further, the European Union (EU) hasn’t yet released figures for 2006, but from 2000 to 2005, the United States outperformed Western Europe:
Carbon emissions were up 3.8 percent in the so-called EU-15 during those years, versus 2.5 percent in the United States. Over the same period, there has been virtually no difference between the increase in all greenhouse emissions in the United States and EU-15. Critics immediately pointed to the Energy Department’s acknowledgment that the reductions were in part due to higher energy prices and favorable weather, says the Journal. But greater use of lower-carbon energy sources, including natural gas, also played a big role. The U.S. reduction also suggests that letting markets work through higher prices will reduce carbon emissions more than the cap and trade mandates favored by environmental lobbies and most Democrats.
Source: Editorial, “An Inconvenient Reduction,” Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2007.
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Whoops!
Meant to ping you!
Well, we could call them on their bluff.
We could stop growing more food than the U.S. citizens need and stop all such exports. We could stop importing all foreign-made products. We could drill our own oil and use more nuclear energy. We could completely close off the borders and stop all foreign visitors, including scholars, dignitaries seeking decent medical help, specialists, illegals and tourists. We could refuse to feed, treat, transport or be entertained by foreigners. We could stop researching cures for diseases that are not troubling our own countrymen. We could withdraw from Iraq, from Europe, from Asia and elsewhere and leave those countries to fend for themselves.
We could do a thousand things to stop being such a “global warming” menace and the entire world would go to you-know-where because we support the world, we feed it, we defend it, we entertain it, we cure it, we educate it, we carry it on our backs with little or no thanks. All so fat, satisfied, self-centered Europeans can look down their noses at our efforts and declare their own virtue.
The U.S. is uniquely able to be self-sustaining if it wanted to do so. We have the resources, the manpower, the education, the willpower. But if we did so, the rest of the world would devolve into chaos and anarchy. They should be careful what they demand. They might just get it someday.
They can kiss my ass.
ITE-BAY E-MAY!!
In honor of the Enviromorons’ idiocy, I shall now go commute 52 miles in dogged traffic. I promise to consume as much chained hydrocarbon material as possible using the tools at my immediate disposal. I celebrate my carbon footprint, relish in it’s magnitude, and command that it be esteemed, for it, and it’s kind, shall be all that saves us from the impending Ice Age.
BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-ha-ha-haaa!
Fake greenhouse gas concerns, fake inadequate government policies makes for a fake agenda.
These anti-humankind nut-balls should have a bounty on their heads not be praised for their concern for our planet.
Stupid carbophobes.
Bali Ha'i coconut credit!
Our extensive forests result in a net negative CO2 output. We absorb other’s CO2.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
The real bluff here...have GW on 1 January announce a massive new program...to cut 95 percent of all excessive carbon emissions in the US by 2060.
Tagged to this...he launches four task-force teams to make the “right” decisions. One team will be picked to select the city airports to cut entirely (no choices, the Feds shut you down) or we trim all flights throughout the country by 60 percent. Another team will have the task of selecting the right plan where electricity across America will be turned off for 12 hours on the fourth Sunday of every month and its effect. Another team will study the idea of limiting every house in America to “X” amount of heat...related not to the amount of money you can afford but to the number of family members. Finally...the last team will survey the idea of having environmental conferences at exotic locations on the globe and the major ecological damage caused, along with the massive release of carbon by attendees.
Bush will appoint the members and simply launch this vehicle. They are to report back to the new president in January 2008 with the results of their mission. I’ll bet that the environmentalists start to worry about the triggers that Bush refers to...and alot of these major companies who fund these groups will start to back off.
The quickest method of taking something down...is to embrace it, and then smother it. The Soviets proved that over and over.
Good ideas. Here’s another to seriously cut down on our carbon footprint: ban all junkets for politicians and all tours for entertainers. Then we will see how the “nomenklatura” squeal about Kyoto.
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