Want The US To Ratify Kyoto?

[BRUCE]

How about we hold Europe to what they have agreed to first?  As the following link shows, The US is actually doing more to reduce carbon emissions than the Europeans, minus a piece of paper to glorify it on:

http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/80465.htm


But given the way this issue gets talked about publicly in Europe, I would venture to say that few people in Europe know that from 2000 to 2004, EU-15 emissions grew at nearly double the U.S. rate, and that Europe, at least during this period, has been moving away from-not towards-its Kyoto target of an 8 percent cut.

Even so, the trend in both Europe and the United States is in the right direction-reducing the growth in emissions. The figure cited above--a 1.3 percent growth in U.S. emissions from 2000 to 2004--translates to 0.325 percent per year. Over the period 1990 to 2000, the United States experienced a 14.3 percent increase in its emissions, or 1.4 percent per year. So we have slowed considerably.

Now notice something else. This time period of 2000 to 2004 was a period of rapid economic growth in the United States. Between 2000 and 2004 we grew our economy by almost 1.9 trillion dollars (or nearly 1.46 trillion Euros). That's about the equivalent of adding Italy to the U.S. economy. And we increased our population by 11.3 million people--adding more than the population of Greece. And yet our emissions grew only 1.3 percent--that tells you a lot about how the U.S. economy is already changing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

[240 is Back]

I had a really good Spanish omelet today.

HTH.

[BRUCE]

I had a really good Spanish omelet today.

HTH.

Made, no doubt, from the egg on your face from my post.


I'm here all night, guys.

[240 is Back]

man, you know i'm way more concerned with the solutions (infrastructure remodeling, walls) and actual research rather than whiny bitch politicians playing the misinfo game.

[BRUCE]

man, you know i'm way more concerned with the solutions (infrastructure remodeling, walls) and actual research rather than whiny bitch politicians playing the misinfo game.

And which part of what I posted is 'misinfo' exactly?

[240 is Back]

i didn't say you, i said whiny politicians.  bush downplays it too much and gore plays it up too much.  they figure if they get half of what they ask for, they'll meet their real goals.