Their activities are the clearest indication that these nations are not taking environmental issues with even a modicum of seriousness. It is, as this map indicates a clear an obvious attempt to break the Protocol.
Australia's instransigence on the matter is particularly infuriating as the Kyoto Protocol was for a collective reduction in greenhouse gas emissions - Australia was in fact given leeway to increase greenhouse gases from its 1990 level.
Another excellent component of Kyoto which I do not see in this attempt is the inclusion of emissions trading.
So many people just don't seem to be aware of the scale of the problem we're collectively facing as a species; some even suggest that a little bit of warming may actually be good for the planet (which could be true, but dangerous irrelevant). Perhaps a graph like this one may help. Especially if one takes into account an extrapolation from 2000-2050.
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Date: 2006-01-16 09:50 pm (UTC)Their activities are the clearest indication that these nations are not taking environmental issues with even a modicum of seriousness. It is, as this map indicates a clear an obvious attempt to break the Protocol.
Australia's instransigence on the matter is particularly infuriating as the Kyoto Protocol was for a collective reduction in greenhouse gas emissions - Australia was in fact given leeway to increase greenhouse gases from its 1990 level.
Another excellent component of Kyoto which I do not see in this attempt is the inclusion of emissions trading.
So many people just don't seem to be aware of the scale of the problem we're collectively facing as a species; some even suggest that a little bit of warming may actually be good for the planet (which could be true, but dangerous irrelevant). Perhaps a graph like this one may help. Especially if one takes into account an extrapolation from 2000-2050.