Good news on the Global Warming front
From
Anthony Watts comes this wonderful bit of news:
It�s All Over: Kyoto Protocol Loses Four Big Nations
France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty, European diplomats have said.
The future of the Kyoto Protocol has become central to efforts to negotiate reductions of carbon emissions under the UN�s Framework Convention on Climate Change, whose annual meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9.
Developed countries signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. They agreed to legally binding commitments on curbing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
Those pledges expire at the end of next year. Developing countries say a second round is essential to secure global agreements.
But the leaders of Russian, Japan and Canada confirmed they would not join a new Kyoto agreement, the diplomats said.
It was never about the climate, it was about money. China is exempt as it is 'developing' but it is the #1 CO
2 emitter worldwide.
It is interesting to see the shifting talking points. What used to be 100% Anthropogenic Global Warming is now Climate Change and what is now 90% CO
2 is now shifting into some nebulous cloud of unspecified 'Pollutants'
They know they can not win with their current argument so they shift the goalposts ever so slowly hoping that people do not notice.
Activism -- soon to be a whole chapter in
DSM
Posted by DaveH at May 29, 2011 12:13 PM