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Kyoto Fraud Revealed

The left leaning Guardian newspaper in Britain let the cat out of the bag yesterday, reporting that while the EU’s emission of CO2 declined by 17% between 1990 and 2010, this apparent progress was bogus. If you add up the CO2 released by the goods and services Europeans consumed, as opposed to the CO2 thrown off by the goods and services they produced, the EU was responsible for 40% more CO2 in 2010 than in 1990. The EU, as the Guardian puts it, has been outsourcing pollution — and jobs — rather than cutting back on greenhouse gasses.

EU “progress” on greenhouse gasses in the last twenty years was a mirage. And the only reason that the EU can pretend to look green is that it was outsourcing economic growth to countries like China. ... twenty years of the Kyoto Protocol have brought the world twenty years of rising greenhouse gas emissions and twenty years of job migration to low wage, low regulation havens in the Third World


Environmentalists will only be able to help the world when they grow up. And they will only grow up when the rest of the world — and especially the mainstream press and serious writers and thinkers — start holding them to serious, grown up standards. Screwy but superficially appealing ideas like the Kyoto Protocol should be mercilessly criticized and all their flawed assumptions and wishful thinking be held up for the whole world to see — when they are first proposed and debated, not after twenty years of uncritical praise ending in failure. The green agenda and the environmental movement are victims of ‘social promotion’; their self esteem has been stoked and their grades inflated — and nobody has ever explained the hard facts of life, or equipped them with the skills needed for actual, as opposed to virtual, success.


http://blogs.the-ame...fraud-revealed/

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2011

Kyoto deal loses Russia, Japan, Canada

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.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.a...l#ixzz1O2RDatJy


2002

The USA drew worldwide criticism for failing to adopt the greatest international agreement for the reduction of some greenhouse gases, The Kyoto Protocol, which has been accepted by nearly every other country. This is despite the fact that the USA is by a massive margin the world's biggest polluter and very disproportionately so. ... Commercialism and greed overcome all common sense and thought for the welfare of future generations. This failure causes hatred ... of American commercialism in general.

USA versus the environment

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Durban South Africa Climate Confab --> Party Hearty

Things don't look promising for the perennial climate confab which convenes in Durban, South Africa today. There is little chance of extending the expiring 1997 Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

Kyoto has turned into a giant international scam that has already wasted hundreds of billions, with little to show for it; in fact, the increase in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases has been accelerating.

But the 10,000 or so Durban attendees -- official delegates, U.N. and government officials, journalists, NGO types, and other hangers-on -- will have a grand old time: two weeks of feasting, partying, living it up in luxury hotels, and greeting old friends at this 17th reunion -- all at someone else's expense. Statesmen will arrive on the last day to sign important-sounding communiqués and quickly depart before having to explain just how they will "save the climate" and humanity.

Durban

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How Do Religions Die?

Zeus and Apollo are no longer with us, and neither are Odin and Thor. Among the secular gods, Marx is mostly dead and Freud is totally so. Something did away with them, and it's worth asking what.

Consider the case of global warming, another system of doomsaying prophecy and faith in things unseen.

As with religion, it is presided over by a caste of spectacularly unattractive people pretending to an obscure form of knowledge that promises to make the seas retreat and the winds abate. As with religion, it comes with an elaborate list of virtues, vices and indulgences. As with religion, its claims are often non-falsifiable, hence the convenience of the term "climate change" when thermometers don't oblige the expected trend lines. As with religion, it is harsh toward skeptics, heretics and other "deniers." And as with religion, it is susceptible to the earthly temptations of money, power, politics, arrogance and deceit.

Religions are sustained in the long run by the consolations of their teachings and the charisma of their leaders. With global warming, we have a religion whose leaders are prone to spasms of anger and whose followers are beginning to twitch with boredom. Perhaps that's another way religions die.

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The church choir is singing louder than ever.

World on track for nearly 11-degree temperature rise, energy expert says

Please donate... it's for the children.

(And please ignore the private jet parked at the preacher's mansion.)

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Here's the deal.
I'm not a grennie.
But I am tight with my green!

Yesterday I got a platform rocking chair out of a dumpster.
The wooden support was broken and the cushion was dirty.
I repaired the wood, washed the cushion and gave it t a 70 year old disabled woman.
She loved it. How much energy and earth's resources were saved?
Probably more than what I am saving with my 11 month old disposable razor.
Probably more than was saved by Al Gore in a year.

Anyway, tonight I watched "Carbon Nation" narrated by Bill Curtis, streamed on Netflix.
Not withstanding the constant propaganda that global warming is caused by man (although it's been warmer before man got here and the glaciers in Yosemite valley melted centuries ago), I did enjoy information about the alternative energy solutions.

Additionally, I am a gadget guy and experimenter.
Last week I posted the potential savings from venting your clothes dryer intake from the attic.
Summer temperatures are easily 140 in many attics.
Likewise installing a water tank in the attic would capture much of the ambient heat to feed into your existing water heater.
Not to mention the energy savings from drying home grown fruits and vegetables in the attic in 36 hours, totally free.

Foaming army tents in the desert was an extremely brilliant energy idea.

The dome shaped, energy self-sufficient house seems to be a great idea (especially here in "tornado alley").

The idea of fuel from algae ponds seems interesting.
Especially since Oklahoma streams are suffering from algae caused in part by Arkansas poultry run-off.
Maybe the poultry waste could feed algae farms.
Likely algae was the source of much of the fossil fuels harvested today anyway, in addition to ocean plankton, both of which absorb carbon out the wazoo.
Additionally I learned that Mycorrhizal Fungi in the soil also absorb vast amounts of carbon. And proper soil management can enhance it's carbon intake.

If you think "ORGANIC" is better, then never forget:
All organic compounds, by definition contain carbon.
Crude oil and coal are ORGANIC! They are a part of nature.

One specific part of the documentary "Carbon Nation" which I have a problem with is the desire to tax carbon.
That would just be another way to hurt the 99%!
I know what politicians do with tax money.
It wouldn't do a darn thing for the environment unless you consider the damage to the world's economies.
A better solution would be to offer tax credits for saving energy.

Another problem I have is the use of taxpayer money to subsidize the likes of Van Jones retro fitting the ghettos with solar panels.
I know where much of that money will go...political money bundlers like Solyndra's George Kaiser et al.
I also know that those panels will be quickly inoperable, destroyed or for sale on Craigslist the next week.

So if you can deal with the constant propaganda, Carbon Nation is an interesting look into the potential for our energy future.

PS: A I write this, I am using a government mandated energy saving screwy lightbulb which produces little heat, and have an electric heater at my feet.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 30 November 2011 - 12:37 AM.

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REPORT: Canada considers quitting global climate treaty...

Could save as much as $6.7b...

Canada, the country furthest from meeting its commitment to cut carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, may save as much as $6.7 billion by exiting the global climate change agreement and not paying for offset credits.
The country’s greenhouse-gas emissions are almost a third higher than 1990 levels, and it has a 6 percent CO2 reduction target for the end of 2012. If it couldn’t meet its goal, Canada would have to buy carbon credits, under the rules of the legally binding treaty.
Canada, which has the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, would be the first of 191 signatories to the Kyoto Protocol to annul its emission-reduction obligations.

“Our government believes that the previous Liberal government signing on to Kyoto was one of the biggest blunders they made,” Kent said Nov. 28.
“Kyoto is the past, Copenhagen and Cancun are the future,” he said, referring to the 2009 Copenhagen Accord.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 03 December 2011 - 04:30 PM.

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The Slow, Agonizing Death of Europeanism

It is probably not a coincidence that the Euro currency was launched at about the same moment as the Kyoto Protocol in the late 1990s, and that both are hitting the rocks at about the same time, and for the same reason: both flew in the face of economic reality.

In the case of the climate change circus, the unreality of steep near-term emission cuts and the asymmetry between rich and "developing" nations like China and India turned the entire scheme of climate change diplomacy into the biggest farce since the Kellogg-Briand Pact promised to eliminate war in 1928.

Margaret Thatcher, amazing:

"(A unified) ‘Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a program whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt."

"The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.


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2012 UN Rio Earth Summit -- The tide has turned

1992 Rio Earth Summit

109 heads of state, 172 countries, 2,500 official delegates, and about 45,000 environmentalists, indigenous peoples, peasants and industrialists came together for the UN's epic conference on environment and development.

The Dalai Lama meditated with Shirley MacLaine on the beach at dawn, Jane Fonda and Pelé turned up, as did Fidel Castro, train robber Ronnie Biggs, and an obscure US senator called Al Gore.

On a wave of concern about the state of the world, presidents, prime ministers and even two kings signed up to a legally binding convention on biodiversity, a climate-change agreement that led to the Kyoto protocol, a 6,000-page blueprint for action, a six-page philosophical paper linking poverty to environmental degradation, initiatives for forests, and new principles to guide world development.


2012 Rio Earth Summit

In his remarks, Inhofe notes that the very existence of the eco-conference has been buried in Washington: “As you know, I had considered making the trip myself but realized that no one in Washington even knows the conference is taking place! President Obama is avoiding it like the plague, and his allies in Congress haven’t made a single speech on the conference. . . . It appears that even the liberal establishment in Washington wishes this whole U.N. Conference would go away. We have come a long way in 20 years.”


http://www.nationalr...o-harry-graver#

http://www.guardian....ummit-1992-2012

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Europe is burning coal at the fastest pace since 2006 as imports from U.S. producers surge

Coal accounted for 30 percent of global energy consumption last year, the highest share since 1969, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2012.
Demand grew 5.4 percent in 2011, the fastest among fossil fuels.

Demand for coal, the dirtiest fuel for making electricity, grew 3.3 percent last year in Europe while sales of less- polluting natural gas fell 2.1 percent, the steepest drop since 2009,

Lower prices resulted in gas increasing its share in electricity generation in the U.S. to 32 percent in April, compared with 23 percent a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Industries.
Coal’s share dropped to 32 percent from 41 percent a year earlier



http://www.bloomberg...u-s-energy.html