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U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty
fenris_23 writes "The AP is reporting
that President Bush has reiterated his opposition to the Kyoto Treaty despite President Putin's acceptance of the treaty and recent scientific evidence directly linking greenhouse emissions to arctic warming. 'President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost,' said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality."
"President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job"
He doesn't need any treaties for that!
Think of all the fishing jobs this will create when we have that much more water!
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Tie bush to rock near the ocean. Let ocean take care of the problem. Granted, probably is a good idea to tie him so his head is down and feet in the air for two reasons. First, he'd probably float like a bobber "head up", and secondly, it will take a little while for the oceans to rise - best to solve the problem sooner.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
shhh...stop thinking or they'll catch you!
No, you don't understand the mindset:
You're either for the loss of jobs, or your for the creation of jobs. Now which are you?
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
By that he means his.
Chaos will always win out over order because chaos is more organized
Let the Dick Cheney jokes begin...
How does Kyoto would make the US lose 5 millions jobs ? I would tend to believe the opposite : increased energy efficiency would make American industries more competitive and help fix the trade deficit.
But who am I to oppose the American people God-given right to burn fossile fuel like there is no tomorrow ?
:wq
Why should I bother about China or India's pollution problems? They are local to China and India (he said, pragmatically and hard-heartedly).
Now if China started dumping its waste in my backyard then I would get interested. In the same way that I am interested in the U.S and Europe dumping their waste into the global atmospheric system.
Seriously, as an Amerikan citizen who voted to get W out, I hereby apologize to the rest of the world. We WILL do better next time, I promise.
You are not the customer.
but can we get the government to go dutch on paying for them?
Now, I realize that you'll tear apart my argument because "George Bush is evil" and "the US economy doesn't create any value to the world." Obviously those aren't valid arguments any way you slice it.
While I admire your proactive stance, it's generally considered poor form (not to mention confusing) to set up straw men for hypothetical future arguments. There's a shortage of straw men due to excessive over-use, so please, treat them like an antibiotic: wait to use them until you need them!
This message was brought to you by Straw Men Against the Constant Killing of Straw Men.
Or continue to allow a steady labor force to wander across the southern US border.
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
So, are you going to be one of the people who dies to pollute our world less?
It's quite clear what he's trying to do --- when the sea levels rise, the first US folks to drown will be those pinkos that voted against him, most of which live on the coasts. True, God-fearing, Republican-voting Americans live in the interior, and will be safe. They'll even be well armed to prevent a huge influx of Aetheist Commies from Massachusetts!
(It's a joke, darnit.)
since Bush has probably patented "causing the loss of American jobs" and doesn't want anyone to infringe on his patent.
-- Put crudely, the world is an extremely large problem instance. (Russel/Norvig Artificial Intelligence)
Reminds me vaguely of this.
For a taste:
"US Suspects World not putting US Interests first"
Whitehouse evidence
International politicians and the media have blasted the U.S. for abandoning the Kyoto global warming treaty, despite the fact that the U.S. has explained the treaty would not be good for the U.S. economy."
Jedidiah.
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*sniffle* God bless America.
<sarcasm>However judging by the last election results, the set of all Americans does include a sizable fraction of all the intelligence-impaired citizens of Earth</sarcasm>
There's something north of America? Huh. That's pretty neat. I wish them good luck as they apply for statehood.
See the electoral college map. See how many blue states are along the coasts. Melting the polar ice caps will put those states under water. The Bush Administration favors policies that will cause global warming which in turn melts the ice caps. Coincidence, ... ;)
rectennas
Just one of those words one can't say without smirking...
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
rectennas?
You want me to get my energy from space, through an antenna in my rectum?
Defend from what, sadam's mass destruction weapons?
But meanwhile the trailer trash breed like rabbits and vote Republican....
Trust me, our leaders are working on that.
Using George's logic (assuming what comes out of the wanker's mouth has ANYTHING to do with logic), the flooding of the Potomac and the consequent submerging of the capitol of the United States will be good because it will create jobs. Take this logic a little further and murder becomes good because it creates jobs for undertakers. Rape? Great! It creates jobs for doctors and psychiatrists. Diarrhea? You got it! Jobs for toilet paper manufacturers. You got bad schools? Stop complaining! It's creating jobs for tutors and Evelyn Woodhead reading programs. Bubonic Plague? Bring it on! More jobs for detergent chemists. Water in the gasoline? A bonanza for mechanics.
Dear God, deliver me from these chimpanzees who can't get the 2 1/2 millennia old basic principles of logic into their little anthropoid brains.
"Is this Winkhorst a nova criminal?" "No just a technical sergeant wanted for interrogation."
We need less people in the world.
Hmm... the birthrate is falling and population declining in western nations like the US, Canada and Western Europe. It's still exploding in India and China.
What to do? Starve large segments of the population and conduct infantacide? Oh wait, China does that. Let AIDS run rampant and kill off the undesirables, while depriving them of health care? Oh wait, India and most African nations do that.
And curiously, the population explosion continues predominantly in command economies. Go figure! Free market economies (aka evil capitalism) have declining populations. How is this possible?
Best King Canute No Ocean's Gonna Stop Me Now Head In The Sand performance goes to.....(drum roll)
The United States of America!!! Woohoo!!
HA HA look they're still in character! No wait don't point that ICBM at me! Here, have some more oil! Nice superpower....
insecurity asks the wrong question irritation gives the wrong answer
Imangine an underground world where all houses and roads are underground. Imangine a world where one does not need to worry about the weather. Imangine a world where no one can go to anyone house unless they are invited first. We could build that world and drasticly reduce our energy requirements and thus reduce our polution. We could have automaticly driven electrical vehicles with no deaths or injuries. We could order all our goods and have them delivered to our homes. We could even do alot of our work at home and drasticly reduce our need for transportation. Once we build this world all future generations will look back at that time as the beginning of a new era.
Who has the interest of keeping US production inefficient?
- Unions.
- The anti-nuclear power crowd.
- Trial lawyers.
- Anti-corporate types (more efficient means more profits, can't have that).
- The welfare-rights crowd.
- Government regulators.
- Class warriors (more efficient industry might make the rich richer, can't have that).
- Diversity celebrators.
- Minimum wage advocates.
- OSHA
- NIMBY and BANANA environmentalists
- The anti-globalization crowd
- The anti-outsourcing crowd
- etc, etc, etc
It's been about 25 years since I looked at it, but at the time the mechanism for global warming went something like this:
:)
Sunlight comes through the atmosphere as visible radiation which is transparent to the CO2 molecule. It strikes the earth and is re-radiated as infared radiation. This is opaque to CO2 and as a result, CO2 absorbs this radiation and holds onto it -- the Green House Effect. So, how do we control the Green House Effect? There are two, separate distinct ways:
a) Control the amount of Greenhouse gas emissions - the Kyoto protocol (boring)
or
b) Control the amount of sunlight entering the atmosphere, striking the earth and re-radiating as infared radiation (interesting possibilities)
I personally like b) because we can shift the blame for global warming:
1) We can blame the environmentalists for Global Warming. Those pesky clean air laws eventually allowed more sunlight to strike the earth. Allowing factories to continue billowing thick clouds of black soot would OBVIOUSLY lead to a reduction in the amount of sunlight striking the earth's surface - PROBLEM SOLVED.
2) We can blame the anti-nuke crowd for Global Warming. The 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty essentially outlawed atmospheric, underwater, and outer space testing of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons, among their many other wonderful attributes, kick up large amount of dust and debris into the atmosphere which PREVENTS sunlight from reaching the earth's surface. Remember Carl Sagan and his "Nuclear Winter" scenario? Regular distribution of nuclear explosions and carefully placed nuclear charges down volcanoes would keep Global Warming in check - PROBLEM SOLVED
Another avenue to solve Global Warming is to change the albedo or reflectance of earth's surface. The more sunlight is reflected harmlessly back into space rather than absorbed by the earth and re-radiated as infared radiation, the better control we will have over Global Warming. Two Words: Large mirrors. Remember the Bond flicks, "Diamonds are Forever", "The Man With The Golden Gun", and "Die Another Day"? Those films made use of the ol concentrated-sunlight-leads-to-world-domination ploy. Same idea here but in reverse.
Feel free to add any suggestions
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Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?