It seems a group of nations is getting together to have a conference on Climate Change focusing on finding alterntatives to the flawed Kyoto treaty. Radio Netherlands shows their Whackjob bias with the coverage, but read on:Six of the world's most polluting countries are taking part in a two-day conference in Sydney, which aims to tackle climate change through voluntary agreements, rather than through the Kyoto protocol. The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate will discuss ways of promoting cleaner technologies instead of setting targets to reduce emissions.
The six countries, United States, Australia, Japan, China, South Korea and India churn out half the world's greenhouse gases by burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.
Here is what they don't tell you. The countries causing deforestation and just sa much pollution are in South America, and also that China would not be covered under Kyoto because of its developing status. But, we have to lionize the US and Australia and Japaan.
Funny, I thought the goal here was to do what is best for the environment, to work toward cleaner air. Isn't it better to advocate for this conference than to slam it? Evidently, for environmental whackjobs, its their way or nothing.
One of the incentives which could have been offered to polluting industries to clean up their act is something called "carbon trading" where companies switching to cleaner technologies can sell leftover emissions allocations. Although this is an idea being championed by the European Union (and snappily entitled the European Emissions Trading Scheme, or EU ETS), the US and Australia are refusing to set up a similar system for the Asia-Pacific region.
Kathryn Fitzpatrick of Greenpeace Australia, who's been following the Sydney conference, said: "It's really starting to look like a trade meeting between Australia and the US trying to sell technology to India and China to solve climate change."
Along with politicians (although US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is not present because of the continuing ill-health of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon), executives from major mining and energy firms like BHP Billiton, Exxon Mobil and Rio Tinto have also been invited.
But Greenpeace campaigner Kathryn Fitzpatrick says countries like the United States should take a lead from Europe, where renewable energies like wind and wave power are still on the agenda: "Most other nations around the world have taken climate change seriously and they're engaging their academics, bureaucrats and civil society in 'how do we make the transition from economies based on fossil fuel?' Australia is much further behind, probably a decade behind in terms of that discussion in government."
But, we can't build them where they get the most wind, namely in Walter Chronkite and John Kerry and the Kennedys backyard on the coast. Supposedly they get more wind there because of the elevation and the ocean breezes, but I think it is more due to the bloviating. Either way, which is it? Environmentalism for all or for none? Can't we come to a more gradual development or I don't know, a more REALISTIC approach than Kyoto? But no, you environmental weenies are just going to suck your thumb and hold your breath and cry until the US changes its mind. Wah! Wah!
Yes, let's follow Europe, the land of record unemployment, muslim riots, and anti-semitism on the rise! Brilliant!
Liberals are morons, nuff said.
