The warm weather crowd of the UN was meeting on the global warming topic in Nairobi, Kenya. I'm sure the "Hundreds of delegates from some 180 member nations" conserved fuel and reduced emissions and took the same plane over. Good thing that Nairobi is such a crossroads, but I digress.........
"Let no one say we cannot afford to act," Annan declared. The United States is among those who contend that reducing global-warming gases would set back economies too much.
The U.N. chief lamented "a frightening lack of leadership" in fashioning next steps in reducing global emissions. "I would want leaders around the world to really show courage and to know that if they do, their people and the voters will be with them," he told reporters after his speech.
Well, first off, Yo Kofi, you wouldn't know leadership if it bit you on the ass. That is unless maybe it was slipped to you (or your son) in an envelope with large bills and non sequential serial numbers. Leadership, for your information, is being willing to NOT wear the emperors cloths and to be willing to stand up and say this thing (Kyoto Protocol) is foolish, unproven, and nothing more than a money grab. Furthermore, leadership is not writing a shell game and creating some sort of new "Carbon Credit" market. That is just another way for politicians and their ilk to make money for doing nothing. The United States has done a lot in this realm, and continues to proceed, in the past 30 years the volume of industry has increased but our levels of pollution have decreased. We continue to seek, (albeit too slowly in my opinion), alternative energy sources and continue to find better ways to handle emissions. This in and of itself is a far better way to handle the level of emissions, if for no other reason to try to keep things as clean as possible.
The fact of the matter still is, no one can prove or disprove global warming is man-made and that we can even do anything about it. To go off half cocked to save the world, and to castigate those who refuse to follow your unproven idea smacks of La Mancha and windmills. The fact of the matter is, there are planetary changes documented on Earth but also on Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The fact of the matter is, the energy output of the sun, (Kofi, that's the big bright thing up in the sky that warms our planet, realizing that brilliance is something you are unfamiliar with based on your track record.) the energy output of the sun has increased. (For the doubting Thomas crowd there are links to articles for these facts in other entries in this category).
So what should we do? How about first off, instead of flying all over the world in fancy jets to proclaim we need to not be flying and we need to cut emissions, you teleconference, or have your stinking conference in New York when everyone else is there anyway. (Although if you wanted to move the IUN, irrelevant United Nations, to another country that would be fine as well, NYC could turn the site into a landfill, since the neighbors are used to the stench anyway.) Of course this would also have to include Al Gore, he seems to love to preach but also loves his jets and limos as well. By the way, Al......They recounted in Florida again, and you still lost.
For those of you that think that Kyoto is still a good idea, read the reference article all the way to the bottom. Read it with both eyes and your brain open and you will see why there is a push by many for this program, it has more to do with money than saving the world.
At the same time, another market is growing in projects that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in developing countries, which are not obligated under Kyoto but which can sell such credits to industrial nations.
If it appears the Kyoto regime will end without an immediate successor, it would shatter business confidence in the future of those markets and cause carbon prices to collapse.
So rather than investing in technology, improving processes, we spend money on the shell game. Sounds like property tax relief in Pennsylvania. The taxes are high so what do we need to do? Open casinos! The logic is asstounding! (Another of those intended typos.)
