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EU Ratifies Kyoto Treaty

Posted by michael on from the i-love-the-smell-of-sulfur-dioxide-in-the-morning dept.

An anonymous submitter sends: "Yahoo! News is reporting that all 15 member states of the European Union have just ratified the Kyoto treaty to cut greenhouse emissions by 8% over the next ten years (the US agreed to 7%.)"

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  1. Wow - We are saved... by mesocyclone · · Score: 0, Troll
    This is so exciting. Now, if the rest of the world signs on, and the global circulation models are correct, and we have political stability for the next 100 years, and the forecast massive disruptions of economies by Kyoto don't cause nations to drop out, and we have anticipated all energy related technologies for the next 100 years, ...


    Then...


    Global warming will be delayed by 6 years!
    Obviously the US should adopt this treaty right away!


    Seriously, Kyoto is fatally flawed. It does not have much effect on global warming other than delyaing it a few years, and that itself is dependent on all of the assumptions above. Furthermore, it does not put controls on the most populous nations in the world, which are rapidly increasing their emissions as their economy improves!


    Kyoto is nothing more than another European inspired attempt at hobbling the United States and improving European competitive position. Europe, because of its much greater population density, needs less fuel than the US. Furthermore, its citizens already drive in tiny cars (due to extortionate fuel taxes and other laws) and already suffer a much higher traffic death rate per mile.

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    The only good weather is bad weather.

  2. Campaign finance by 00_NOP · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yep, you Americans get the government your bosses pay for. Forget the treaty for a moment and reform the campaign finance system that means you get such callow, brain dead politicians that they would sell your country and its future for a few bucks.

    By the way, if you are one of those right wing morons who thinks global warming isn't real, or worse, doesn't matter, go ahead and mod me down. Because I have got a brain I've posted enough intelligent contributions to have karma to burn!

  3. Re:Uhhm.. what article did you read? by Darby · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just because we're not joining up with the European Union(who keeps making it obvious they fucking hate us)

    If you could pull your doublethinking head out of your ass, you might look around and start to wonder *why* most of the rest of the world hates us.
    Off topic from Kyoto, but look at some of our other fucked up policies.
    At the recent UN childrens summit, America threatened to refuse to sign any declaration that contained even oblique references to condoms and abortion.
    This is in regards to adolescent pregnancy and AIDS. Who were the countries on our side in this? Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and The Vatican.
    Who were against us (or more accurately for freedom) on this? The rest of the world.

    This is one reason people fucking hate the US and rightly so. We claim to be free and anti terror, yet we push policies that only terrorists agree with.
    I am a patriotic American.
    If you don't question our fucked up policies and our illegally elected president, then you are not.