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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Beating A Dead Horse -- Parsing One Paragraph In One Story -- Nothing About the Bakken

First, the "cut and paste" from an earlier post this morning:
Op-ed: The Kyoto Scorecard. The UN's anti-carbon scheme didn't work out as planned. Well, duh. Did you know that The Kyoto Protocol expired four or five days ago, on January 1, 2013? Expired. As in dead.
Now, from another source: what happens when the Kyoto protocol expires? This paragraph caught my attention:
Of the 37 developed nations, one never ratified it. Ratification makes a country legally bound to the commitment it made when it signed the document. That one country is the United States, one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. But many countries that did make commitments are failing to live up to them.
That paragraph failed to note:
  • the one country that failed to sign the protocol, lived up to the intent of the signatories
  • Canada withdrew, after being one of the earlier signers of the protocol
  • China and India, huge CO2 emitters, were given a pass; no requirement to cut emissions
  • the US and Germany were the only two major industrial countries to decrease their emissions
  • repeat: the US decreased its emissions
  • US CO2 emissions are at a 20-year low; the US saw an 8% drop q/q in the first quarter 2012 (NY Times)
 But I was surprised. I was not aware that the Kyoto Protocol expired in 2012.

2 comments:

  1. Kyoto may be dead but the concept of climate change or global warming is not. There has been a lot of money and emotion invested by those interests and they are not going to allow it to die. Where does the truth end and the lie begins? No one knows. Most of it is an easy lie that too many people are willing to believe and give up their freedom and liberty for it. A very nice tool to use to control and dictate to people by a self appointed ruling class elite. Use it as an indoctrination tool in public education, scream about it in all forms of the media. Appoint self important elites to spread the lie. Remember it isn't about climate destruction, it is first and foremost a means to get further control over people.

    Power over the people is a ugly thing because government becomes a ruler over its citizens rather than having a government by the consent of the people. Freedom and liberty are lost when a ruling class elite rules.

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    1. I agree 100%.

      I am serious about the Bakken, but the other posts (Honda Civic, Apple, global warming) have to be taken with a grain of salt. I understand fully the issue is far from dead; probably never will be. In fact, some years ago, they morphed "global warming" into "climate change" for obvious reasons.

      But to policy wonks, serious folks, and rational thinkers, some milestones are notable. The expiration of the Kyoto Protocol is a notable milestone, especially considering it was not renewed.

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