From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 19:04:12 MST
John K Clark wrote:
>
> Various numbers and the assumptions they are based on can be disputed and
> not just in one direction, the figures I gave are not the most pessimistic,
> but I don't know of anyone who claims the Kyoto Protocols even if followed
> to the letter will significantly slow global warming....
When the Kyoto Protocol was being debated I wondered
about the fact that the US government does not have
the authority to dictate how much CO2 is produced by
its citizens. Furthermore there is nothing in the
US constitution from which such authority could be
derived. In their saner moments, every government
on the globe must have realized that they too lacked
the authority to dictate CO2 production. Why did they
decide to play chicken with that proposal, and wait
for the US to be the bad guy? Did not every government
recognize this as a bad solution to a questionable
"problem"? Did they not wait around for the US to
point out that the emperor was naked as a boiled egg?
spike
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