Kyoto: A Moooooving Target

57 Replies to “Kyoto: A Moooooving Target”

1. kingstonlad
   That’s National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). Sorry for the dyslexia.
   Zog

2. I recently read an article which noted that Al Gore, in his “Inconvenient Truth,” tells the viewer sea levels will rise 200 FEET! over the next 150 years. The reality is that, even if Kyoto models are accurate (they’re not), sea levels will rise ONE FOOT over the same period, which BTW is within natural variance.
   We need to expose Al Gore for what he is, one of the major mouthpieces for the shrill, hysterical ultra-Kyotoists who have no problem lying to people, because their cause is just, and the capitalists are oh-so bad.
   Problem is, they cannot sustain their campaign of misinformation, it will collapse of their mountain of contradictions.
   I am all for cutting tailpipe/smokestack emissions, but sequestration of CO2 and emissions credits are a joke, and also will be seen for what they are.
   The connection for the public will be their financial well-being. Watch their support collapse when facts come out, in spite of MSM muzzling attempt:
   – Canada’s emissions 2% of total, less than our share of worldwide economic output (3%)
   – Chretien signed Canada on for far more reductions than our “share”
   – CO2 is a minor GHG (5%) and human-induced CO2 is 3%, for a total of .15%. Therefore, Canada represents 2% of .15%.
   – Even so, exempt countries will make up reductions and much more (why is GW such a catastrophe in waiting, but it’s OK for China to build 500 coal-fired electrical generating stations?)
   – even today w/o Stephane and Al saving us, technology is allowing cleaner emissions (real pollution, not straw man of CO2), which, of course, the models don’t consider
   If we keep pointing out the inherent contradictions, combined with reasonable, doable environmental policies that allow us to, long-term, transition off carbon fuels (so Saudi can be told to bite it), we will win the day.
   Don’t give up, battle past the intimidation and misinformation. If people have all the facts, hopefully they will vote for reasonable action.

3. Lets sequister the farts and ask the French Citizen what to do with them. Perhaps we can give them to China, plus cash.

4. On Saturday, my cousin (a teacher) and his wife asked me, all innocently, if I had seen “Incovenient Truth”. She later told my wife she had never seen me like that as I pounded them both with information about Al Gore and his Climate Storm Troopers, Kyoto and global wealth redistribution and the expected results of even a successful reduction, climatology and meteorology, the existance and limitations of computer modeling, climate history, scientific malfeasance, and political jiggery-pokery. They told me that they knew nothing about climate change, but they were advising people to watch “IC”.
   They are both “normal, average citizens”, who trust what they are told because they don’t have time nor inclination to do the research.
   In the Calgary Sun on Sunday, there was a column detailing what the CO2 emissions in Canada from various sources are, and asking, how do we cut these to meet Kyoto. Example, all of the emissions from every aircraft operating in Canada is less than that of one coal-fired electrical generator in Ontario.
   There was a sci-fi novel by Larry Niven called “Fallen Angels”, about how the greens had taken over politically, cut emissions, and with the decrease in greenhouse gases, encouraged another Ice Age. Ah, how things have changed.

5. If someone, hopefully the Prime Minister, would just give a good long talk about Kyoto, what exactly it is all about, IF he knows and then let us make their own minds. Leave the jackasses out of it.
   The very idea of giving millions to big polluters is in itself total stupidity. It does nothing to clean up GHG’s, well at least can’t see how it could, we have no control of the money after it’s tossed away.
   How the hell did we ever get to this point?
   Oh yes, remember now, it was le petit gar and golf ball collector’s main claim to fame on the environment. His appointed Elf, Dion, took another ten years to concoct a “plan” which never got off the ground before they got the boot.

6. There is evidence that contradict Al Gore’s ludicrous claim that sea levels will rise 200′ with rise in global temperature. The evidence is right here in Canada at L’Anse meadows in Newfoundland. This Viking settlement is located close to the ocean and it was settled during a warm period. If this degree of global warming had been associated with a 200′ rise in sea level, the settlement would have been miles inland, but I guess this is an inconvenient anomaly for the anthropogenic global warming adherents. Presumably the excuse that will be given for why the sea level didn’t rise 200′ is that the vikings weren’t driving SUV’s.
   What I find effective for dealing with the clueless is to have a store of facts like this and to ask them to explain eras such as the medieval warm period and subsequent cooling. Surprising how ignorant people are. I’ve even run into people who don’t know that they produce CO2 as part of normal metabolism or that plants take up CO2 which is scary. I don’t know if I’m getting through to people, but if it gets them to at least think I’m making progress.

7. Over on the Liblog blogroll, there’s a “big city” member whose written a long post ridiculing me for this item, titled;
   “No, Kate, Don’t Feed Your Cattle Refried Beans!”
   It appears that his intensive investigation didn’t include reading to the bottom to check who wrote it.