y2kyoto

[goat]

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
— Michael Crichton

 

[Tonington]

From state of fear, kinda funny really.

One proof of this suppression is the fact that so many of the outspoken critics of global warming are retired professors. These individuals are not longer seeking grants, and no longer have to face colleagues whose grant applications and career advancement may be jeopardized by their criticisms.

and then....

[FONT=helvetica,] In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.[/FONT]

 

[Walter]

A light in the wilderness.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7165/pdf/449973a.pdf

 

[Tonington]

I agree, very good report. I like the conclusions:

Because no one can know beforehand the exact consequences of any portfolio of policy measures, with a bottom-up approach, governments would focus on navigation, on maintaining course and momentum towards the goal of fundamental technological change, rather than on compliance with precise targets for emissions reductions. The flexibility of this inelegant approach would allow early mitigation efforts to serve as policy experiments from which lessons could be learned about what works, when and where. Thus cooperation, competition and control could all be brought to bear on the problem.

 

[DaSleeper]

Four is just about right....:lol:

 

[eh1eh]

A light in the wilderness.
Access : Time to ditch Kyoto : Nature

Article is for paying customers only. I feel comfortable with your opinion Tonn. Does it indicate Kyoto is insufficient or ill targeted?

 

[Tonington]

It's sort of both. For one it's a toothless tiger. Number two, it's gamed by developing nations. Third, the largest polluters haven't ratified it. And lastly, it's really just targets for reductions, and the main focus seems to be on offsets. Market approaches would create all sorts of options, but paradoxically, conservatives have chosen to deny the warnings, and in so doing open up regulatory approaches like the EPA in the US.

 

[Cliffy]

YouTube - Native American on 2012 Truth Prophecy HD

 

[Bar Sinister]

So I guess the Earth doesn't really orbit the sun.