Comments on: Two Questions.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:57:50 +0000

Kyoto has actually increased emissions while reducing economic growth by causing comparatively low emission production to relocate to less efficient China and India! How’s that for anti-effective treaty: make us poorer and less able to deal with problems in the future, while making those problems worse!

By: Philip Thomas

Philip Thomas — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:01:50 +0000

Matthew, you can think emissions are bad without agreeing with the Kyoto protocol’s proposals for limiting them. The “inconvenient truth” mentioned by Tim highlights that Kyoto is not vital for the reduction of greenhouse gas production, though one could still argue Kyoto is an assist. I probably wouldn’t, but you could.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:06:24 +0000

Oh yes, that’s the point. I forgot it was because I hate the Evil USA.

By: Recusant

Recusant — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:36:03 +0000

Oh, and apologies for my homonym problems with ‘there’, ‘their’.

By: Recusant

Recusant — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:34:19 +0000

Mathew

Of course you don’t find the line of argument strange: you just find it inconvenient.

You would have much more preferred that there emissions had shot up and all those good signers emissions had gone down, to create a nice black/white Manichean distinction between good and evil.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:24:52 +0000

And has its economy been destroyed?

I found this line of argument very strange. The Kyoto Treaty is apparently “not fit for purpose” because a country that didn’t sign it saw its greenhouse gas emissions fall. That makes no logical sense. Either you believe there is a point to cutting these emissions or not. If you think there is you must believe that over a number of years not one. Hence why not sign the an international Agreement limiting them?

By: embutler

embutler — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:54:38 +0000

of course ,kyoto is vital
it makes libs(US definition) feel good

By: Two Inconvenient Truths « House of War

Two Inconvenient Truths « House of War — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:30:16 +0000

[...] Inconvenient Truths 1. As Tim Worstall notes, there is one major industrial country that didn’t ratify the Kyoto Protocoll, and one [...]

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:27:12 +0000

….we must Think Of The Children!!!

By: Kay Tie

Kay Tie — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:45:48 +0000

“The Kyoto Treaty is vital because Something Must Be Done”

By: AntiCitizenOne

AntiCitizenOne — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:44:17 +0000

“The Kyoto Treaty is vital because how else will we keep our phoney baloney jobs?”