Canada Withdraws From Kyoto Protocol

[YankeeFan]

They would have owed $14B if they hadn't withdrawn.

Anybody still think we should have agreed to this nonsense.

Canada's environment minister said Monday his country is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

Peter Kent said that Canada is invoking its legal right to withdraw and said Kyoto doesn't represent the way forward for Canada or the world.

Canada, joined by Japan and Russia, said last year it will not accept new Kyoto commitments, but renouncing the accord is another setback to the treaty concluded with much fanfare in 1997. No nation has formally renounced the protocol until now.

The protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, is aimed at fighting global warming. Canada's previous Liberal government signed the accord but did little to implement it and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government never embraced it.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12/12/business/AP-CN-Canada-Climate-Change.html?_r=1&hp

 

[Starman]

Burn baby burn. The wingnuts score one for carbon monoxide.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Good for them. If you'll recall, the U.S. Senate rejected the initial Kyoto Protocol by a 98-0 vote, so if you want to say all 98 of them were wingnuts then be my guest.

 

[Yodel]

Sounds like reasonableness defeated the wingnuts.

 

[Dick Whitman]

They would have owed $14B if they hadn't withdrawn.

Anybody still think we should have agreed to this nonsense.

No. **** no. They should be paying us to reduce CO2 emissions, not the other way around.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

We're boned regarding global warming anyway, so why go broke at the same time?

 

[YGBFKM]

Burn baby burn. The wingnuts score one for carbon monoxide.

Carbon monoxide is racist!

 

[printdust]

LMAO! Leftwing extremism loses another one. In Canada of all places!

 

[Dick Whitman]

LMAO! Leftwing extremism loses another one. In Canada of all places!

You probably should spend about six months learning about both climate change and economics.

Kyoto is an absolute joke without us and China. Canada withdrawing doesn't mean that carbon emissions should not be limited. It means that there is a global collective action problem. There is no way in hell that Canada, or any nation, that has a carbon-based economy should fall on its own sword for this cause, when nothing they do makes a difference without us and China being involved.

 

[printdust]

And your point is?

The fact the U.S. and China aren't part of it insults liberal wackos who think the earth is melting.

 

[Dick Whitman]

And your point is?

The fact the U.S. and China aren't part of it insults liberal wackos who think the earth is melting.

First of all, the earth is melting. Figuratively speaking. And we are causing it.

Second of all, the fact that the U.S. and China aren't part of it has nothing to do with "liberal wackos." Or the reliability of the science. It has everything to do with the fact that we have the most to lose, economically, from following the protocols. And the least to lose from not following them, as we are a wealthy nation that can absorb the effects to a much greater degree than the rest of the world. Like I said, we can sign us when they compensate us. Not before.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

"We can sign us when they compensate us?"

Me speak pretty one day

 

[Dick Whitman]

"We can sign us when they compensate us?"

Me speak pretty one day

Hey, troll.

How's the web log? Lots of comments?

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Who has time to comment - the Earth is melting!!

It's MELTING!

 

[SpeedTchr]

Who has time to comment - the Earth is melting!!

It's MELTING!

SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE AND KEEP LOADING THOSE SANDBAGS!!!

 

[printdust]

And your point is?

The fact the U.S. and China aren't part of it insults liberal wackos who think the earth is melting.

First of all, the earth is melting. Figuratively speaking. And we are causing it.

Second of all, the fact that the U.S. and China aren't part of it has nothing to do with "liberal wackos." Or the reliability of the science. It has everything to do with the fact that we have the most to lose, economically, from following the protocols. And the least to lose from not following them, as we are a wealthy nation that can absorb the effects to a much greater degree than the rest of the world. Like I said, we can sign us when they compensate us. Not before.

If its melting then by damn we should be in a panic to stop it. Doesn't look like this accord motivates us to do that.

 

[Beef03]

So really we only made it official now instead of mildly pretending we cared when in reality nothing was ever going to happen with it anyway. I don't think our government ever really bought into it wholeheartedly, if anything they signed it after being pressured into it. I always thought the accord was a joke anyways, and I'm sure that surprises very few.

 

[Starman]

Just in case there's any even remote possibility that man-made pollution is not causing global warming and if it is it poses no threat to anybody anywhere in the world, we must remove all restrictions of any kind on any kind of pollution, because that'll show "the wackos" that we ain't taking any of their crap.

Or something.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

The problem with the original proposal is that the US was supposed to do the bulk of the heavy lifting, while letting China and India develop, without a care.

F. T. S.

 

[Dick Whitman]

The problem with the original proposal is that the US was supposed to do the bulk of the heavy lifting, while letting China and India develop, without a care.

F. T. S.

Exactly.