Posted on 09/07/2013 9:09:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Reactions ranged from begrudging acceptance to outrage at a European Parliament event last night discussing an offer made by the EU yesterday (4 September) to back down on its insistence on including aviation emissions in its emissions trading scheme (ETS).
EU negotiators offered to limit the ETS scope during a high-level meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) yesterday. In exchange, the ICAO council agreed to a draft text in which they pledge to work toward reaching a global deal to reduce aviation emissions by 2016.
The 2016 deal would commit to starting, by 2020, one of three mechanisms for reducing aviation emissions. These include a global emissions trading scheme for aviation or carbon-offsetting. …
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For that to happen, you need an opposition that's against these things. Unfortunately, they don't exist in much of the EU. Yet. In fact, I wonder when they're going to criminalize "global warming denial" the way they've criminalized Holocaust denial.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls our climates.
3. The earth is a rock.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Such an opposition does exist, but they’ll never be able to gain any power in the EU due to the government in Brussels being patterned after the USSR’s government.
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