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In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

  
  Harper's letter dismisses Kyoto as 'socialist scheme'
The accord is an international environmental pact that sets targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Under Kyoto, Canada was required to reduce emissions by six per cent by 2012, while economies in transition, like Russia, were allowed to choose different base years.
He said the accord would cripple the oil and gas industries, which are essential to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
www.cbc.ca /canada/story/2007/01/30/harper-kyoto.html   (921 words)

  
  The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology and Society
The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty intended to ration the use of energy in order to address the concerns of those who believe that we face a global warming catastrophe.
he Kyoto accord is a protocol connected to an existing global climate treaty adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and known formally as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC).
Kyoto is not the first attempt to impose worldwide restrictions on anthropogenic emissions.
www.thenewatlantis.com /archive/4/singer.htm   (3294 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Europe backs Kyoto accord
The Kyoto accord was designed to limit the gas emissions blamed by some scientists for global warming, but Mr Bush says such restrictions will harm the US economy.
Kyoto "is still alive, and no individual country has the right to declare that a multilateral accord is dead", Swedish Environment Minister Kjell Larsson said.
This failure to demand emission quotas from developing nations is one of the main objections raised by the Bush administration to the Kyoto accord.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1252556.stm   (609 words)

  
 HOAX: Implementation of Kyoto Accord/Protocol
The Kyoto Accord, or Kyoto Protocol (Kyoto), should NOT be implemented by the Parliament of Canada.
Consequently, and sadly for Canada, Kyoto was adopted by Parliament on Tuesday, December 10, 2002, when a majority of the MPs, our Members of Parliament, voted for it, clearing the way for the Prime Minister to sign the seriously flawed Kyoto Accord document to complete the ratification process on Monday, December 16, 2002.
As bad as the "science" of Kyoto has been, and it is very badly flawed, indeed, ratification of the Kyoto Protocol set in motion what could become the most massive, devious, and systematic "shafting" of the already beleaguered taxpayers of Canada, IF kyoto is implemented.
plantseatco2.blogspot.com   (6142 words)

  
 Global Warming: Can Kyoto Accord Really Help?
The news that the Kyoto accord is to be implemented has raised hopes among the world’s people that governments are now finally going to unite to take meaningful action to prevent this global environmental catastrophe.
The irony is that these measures were included in Kyoto largely at the insistence of the US and Australian governments as the price for their participation, but then both governments withdrew from the protocol anyway after delaying the flawed treaty’s final emergence for almost a decade.
According to the New Scientist website, these loopholes and scams will mean that even if the industrialised countries achieve Kyoto’s 5.2% reduction on paper, the real-world reduction will be more likely to be 1.5%.
baltimorechronicle.com /021805Dixon.html   (1707 words)

  
 The Kyoto Accord
Kyoto focuses primarily on reducing CO a relatively harmless gas, and does nothing to control real air pollution like NO and particulates, or serious pollutants in water and soil.
The Kyoto Protocol would reduce that increase by an insignificant 0.06ºC. If increased atmospheric concentrations of CO were a major problem, then as many as 40 Kyoto-type emission cuts would be required to stop the predicted human-made warming.
According to the IPCC, overall global temperature increases since the late 1950s (the beginning of adequate weather balloon data) in the lower troposphere have been similar to those at the surface.
www.pegnl.ca /dialogue/issues/2003/june_2003/article_18.htm   (4413 words)

  
 Understanding Global Climate Change | Politics: Summary of Kyoto Protocol
Five years after the Rio Accord on global climate change, the Kyoto Protocol was approved to strengthen it.
Kyoto also expresses greater concern for the role that three long-lived industrial gases, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride play in atmospheric warming.
Parties who signed the Rio Accord and the Kyoto Protocol are concerned that global warming will disrupt the international community economically, environmentally, and socially.
www.facsnet.org /issues/specials/gcc/politics/summ.php3   (776 words)

  
 Kyoto Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted at the third session of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan.
Kyoto enables a group of several Annex I countries to join together to create a so-called ‘bubble’, or a cluster of countries that is given an overall emissions cap and is treated as a single entity for compliance purposes.
According to those same officials, the United States is on track to fulfill its pledge to reduce its carbon intensity 18% by 2012.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kyoto_Accord   (7681 words)

  
 Climate conference becomes a disaster - Kyoto up in smoke?
Putin and his economic advisor both refuse to endorse Kyoto, and a parade of Russian scientists have been brought forward to debunk global warming, bringing dismay to participants in the climate change conference currently underway in Russia.
According to Putin, in a joke he made to the Climate Change Conference, global warming would be good for Russia, since they wouldn't need such heavy parkas, and they could grow more wheat.
Kyoto is a small step (calling for only a 5 per cent reduction, when the scientfic consensus calls for a 60 per cent reduction in green house gas emissions).
www.awitness.org /journal/kyoto_up_in_smoke.html   (561 words)

  
 Clouds converge over Kyoto
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, released on December 10 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, is an agreement among the signing national governments to encourage reductions in carbon emissions by the industries operating in their jurisdictions.
Thus, the Kyoto Accord was born: Its an agreement by all signing countries to collectively lower the world's overall carbon emissions.
Thus, it is their plan, judging by their latest public relations gambit, to confuse the public about what Kyoto is about, to make staggering claims about the economic and social costs of the treaty, to claim that the treaty won't actually do any good, and to cry that it is unfair to their member companies.
www.republic-news.org /archive/48-repub/repub_48_potvin_kyo.html   (1248 words)

  
 Canada Poised to Kill Kyoto :: Mediacheck :: thetyee.ca
The campaign to kill Kyoto was taken over by National Public Relations, the Canadian arm of global PR giant Burson-Marsteller, which created an industry front group called the Canadian Coalition for Responsible Environmental Solutions to promote the made in Canada solution.
The Kyoto Accord is the evidence and an attempt to deal realistically and practically with the measurable reality of global, but predominantly Western fossil fuel dependency and damage to the natural systems of the earth, (with China and other major developing areas of the globe moving in the same direction, no doubt).
Kyoto was a brave attempt to try to solve a world-wide problem, it may not be perfect, but hell, we have to start somewhere.
thetyee.ca /Mediacheck/2006/01/22/CanadaKillKyoto   (10722 words)

  
 HOAX: Implementation of Kyoto Accord/Protocol - Man Made Global Warming Debunking News and Links
Consequently, and sadly for Canada, kyoto was adopted by Parliament on Tuesday, December 10, 2002, when a majority of the MPs, our Members of Parliament, voted for it, clearing the way for the Prime Minister to sign the document to complete the ratification process on Monday, December 16, 2002.
As bad as the "science" of kyoto is, and it is very badly flawed, indeed, the ratification of Kyoto Accord set in motion what could become the most massive, devious, systematic "shafting" of the already beleaguered taxpayers of Canada, IF kyoto is implemented.
In a moment, another, possibly more sinister and damning ulterior motive for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, one involving the redistribution of the the wealth of Canadians to third world potentates, and implicating our highest public officials, will become apparent, but I must warn you, this is speculative, and hopefully not true.
www.sitewave.net /news/s49p1493.htm   (4421 words)

  
 The Kyoto Protocol and Emissions Trading
The agreement was designed to combat the problems of global warming, which, according to many scientists, threatened the world’s environment over the course of the next few hundred years.
The Kyoto agreement foresees the development of such a system and has ensured that a future trading regime will be compatible with the original protocol, but it did not create a system on its own.
Some parties to the Kyoto agreement are experimenting with their own domestic markets to facilitate trade in greenhouse gases.
www.american.edu /TED/kyoto-emissions.htm   (3803 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Russia's Duma OKs Kyoto accord
MOSCOW — Russia's lower house of parliament ratified the long-stalled Kyoto climate change treaty on Friday, clearing the last major hurdle for the global pact to take force seven years after it was drafted.
The two advocacy groups have been lobbying for ratification of the agreement, which was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997.
Kremlin factions opposed to Kyoto waged a last-ditch campaign to kill it, led by Putin's top economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov, who has termed the pact a "death treaty" that would strangle the growing Russian economy.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595100247,00.html   (483 words)

  
 Global Warming, Globalization and the Kyoto Accord
One must look at the Kyoto Accord, with its favorable treatment of "third world developing economies" and unfavorable treatment of "developed polluting economies", under the light of Globalism.
According to this article, we should be near the peak expected for the current interglacial period.
As I alluded to in one of the previous e-mails, the timing of glaciation and interglacial warm periods appears to be primarily determined by variations in the shape of the Earth's orbit, changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation and variations in the solar output.
www.k5kj.net /gwarming.htm   (1488 words)

  
 Russian Scientists Reassert Opposition to Kyoto Accord - by Andre Illarionov - The Heartland Institute
Kinenmos: Very early after Kyoto, the Australian government and the Prime Minister said that Australia was not going to ratify the Kyoto Protocol because of the impact on the economic conditions in Australia.
Because the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol will hit hardest at those countries which had been careless enough to assume obligations to cut carbon dioxide emissions, and Japan was one of such countries.
So, the introduction of the Kyoto Protocol through ratification, for instance, possible ratification by Russia, would mean that Japan would quickly start to move back to the state in which it was a decade ago; it would be weak, poor, and backward.
www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=15556   (2241 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Kyoto Accord Goes Into Effect - U.S. & World
KYOTO, Japan — The Kyoto global warming pact (search) went into force Wednesday, seven years after it was negotiated, imposing limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases many scientists blame for rising world temperatures, melting glaciers and rising oceans.
Environmental officials, gathered in the convention hall where the accord was adopted, hailed the protocol as a historic first step in the battle against global warming and urged the world to further strengthen safeguards against greenhouse gases.
The Kyoto agreement was delayed by the requirement that countries accounting for 55 percent of the world's emissions must ratify it.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,147741,00.html   (1209 words)

  
 Kyoto Accord
The Kyoto Accord is an international treaty whereby countries agree to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases they emit if their neighbours do likewise.
According to a Nova documentary, for every human on earth there are 3/4 of a ton of termites.
According to Ross Gelbspan of the Boston Globe, in 1995, public utility hearings in Minnesota found that the coal industry had paid more than $1 million to four scientists who were public dissenters on global warming.
mindprod.com /environment/kyoto.html   (10040 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: Environment - The Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming
The following is an introduction to global warming, the Kyoto Protocol, and the impact of the Protocol on Canadian politics.
This section examines the Kyoto Protocol and its backstory, including its evolution in the greater international context.
This section offers an overview of the federal government’s strategy to meet Canada’s Kyoto commitments, as well as criticisms of that strategy by environment groups, industry, the provinces, and opposition parties.
www.mapleleafweb.com /features/environment/kyoto   (350 words)

  
 CNN - Text of the Kyoto Protocol - 1997
Methodologies for estimating anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol shall be those accepted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties at its third session.
Where such methodologies are not used, appropriate adjustments shall be applied according to methodologies agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol at its first session.
Any revision to methodologies or adjustments shall be used only for the purposes of ascertaining compliance with commitments under Article 3 in respect of any commitment period adopted subsequent to that revision.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1997/global.warming/stories/treaty   (1930 words)

  
 Kyoto Accord Protest Quickening - Man Made Global Warming Debunking News and Links
This is in line with a Senate resolution, passed by a 95-to-0 vote in July, which turns down any Kyoto agreement that damages the economy of the United States while exempting most of the world's nations, including such major emerging economic powers as China, India and Brazil.
The petition is also in line with resolutions passed by state legislatures, labor unions, industry associations and consumer groups, who base their objections to Kyoto restrictions mainly on economic grounds—an expected slowdown of economic growth and huge job losses because of drastically higher energy costs, with gasoline prices rising by as much as a dollar.
Further, many of the so-called consenting IPCC scientists are known to be critical of the IPCC report and have signed the petition opposing the Kyoto accord.
www.sitewave.net /news/s49p419.htm   (744 words)

  
 The Kyoto Accord and Canadians
According to a Green Power presentation at the IEEE conference in Monterey, Mexico in October 2003, each liter of gasoline used in an internal combustion engine produces 3 kg of CO when energy use including refining and transport are included.
The politics of Kyoto are likely inevitable, but the misinformation they are engendering is beyond unfortunate.
On the other hand, they don't mention that the U.S. has their own plan, and the U.S. GHG emissions are being reduced now (up until 2001, U.S. GHG emissions started to rise again in 2002 courtesy of the Bush II administration gutting measures that led to earlier progress), while Canada's continue to rise.
www.econogics.com /en/kyotocan.htm   (5262 words)

  
 Bush Defends Rejection of Kyoto Treaty   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At issue is the 1997 Kyoto accord, a treaty signed by the United States and 54 other nations.
Schroeder, a major backer of the Kyoto accord, said the issue was the one major point of disagreement in his meeting with Bush.
According to estimates, the United States produces about 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gases but has only 4 percent of its population.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/3/29/164418.shtml   (718 words)

  
 "The Kyoto Accord" - Commentary - truehealth.org
Signatories to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change will meet this week in New Delhi, India, to debate carbon trading rules.
The Kyoto Protocol requires safeguards to ensure that polluters' money actually goes towards soaking up carbon - forests are audited, for example, to see that they are actually absorbing as much carbon as has been paid for.
The more people there are using a forest, and the more functions a forest has to fulfil, the harder it is to audit.
www.truehealth.org /kyoto01.html   (875 words)

  
 Kyoto
Kyoto's imposed limits are flexible enough to permit us to choose our own solutions to reducing greenhouse gases.
The Kyoto Climate Accord is a flawed treaty.
Kyoto is a plan stir fried and eaten with chop sticks.
batr.org /twins/id6.html   (1956 words)

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