Comments on: US leans on IPCC http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/ hopping along the corridors of power Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:02:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: kahikatea http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/#comment-23272 kahikatea Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:45:55 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/#comment-23272 alastair said: > Meanwhile… Tony Blair reckons he can get the Chinese, Indians and Americans to sign up to a post-Kyoto treaty… > … if he can do that, then I guess history will give him a pass, despite his crucial enabling role in the Iraq fiasco. I've sometimes wondered if the real reason why Tony Blair supported the invasion of Iraq was to stay friends with the Bush government in the hope that he could use that to get them to do something about global warming. Of course, it doesn't seem to be working. Also, isn't this article wrong in saying that China, India and Brozil haven't signed up to the Kyoto Protocol? I thought they had, and were covered by the monitoring provisions, but just weren't required under the protocol to make emissions cuts before 2012 because their per-capita emissions were so much lower that the OECD countries. alastair said:
> Meanwhile… Tony Blair reckons he can get the Chinese, Indians and Americans to sign up to a post-Kyoto treaty…

> … if he can do that, then I guess history will give him a pass, despite his crucial enabling role in the Iraq fiasco.

I’ve sometimes wondered if the real reason why Tony Blair supported the invasion of Iraq was to stay friends with the Bush government in the hope that he could use that to get them to do something about global warming. Of course, it doesn’t seem to be working.

Also, isn’t this article wrong in saying that China, India and Brozil haven’t signed up to the Kyoto Protocol? I thought they had, and were covered by the monitoring provisions, but just weren’t required under the protocol to make emissions cuts before 2012 because their per-capita emissions were so much lower that the OECD countries.

]]> By: alistair http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/#comment-23134 alistair Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:16:09 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/#comment-23134 If the Canadians are sincere about global warming, they will, of course, close down the tar-sands mines immediately. I'm holding my breath... really I am... Imagine. They might actually do it. Then probably the Americans would invade, to force them to keep exporting the gunk... Meanwhile... <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2000607,00.html">Tony Blair reckons he can get the Chinese, Indians and Americans to sign up to a post-Kyoto treaty...</a> ... if he can do that, then I guess history will give him a pass, despite his crucial enabling role in the Iraq fiasco. If the Canadians are sincere about global warming, they will, of course, close down the tar-sands mines immediately.

I’m holding my breath… really I am…

Imagine. They might actually do it. Then probably the Americans would invade, to force them to keep exporting the gunk…

Meanwhile… Tony Blair reckons he can get the Chinese, Indians and Americans to sign up to a post-Kyoto treaty…

… if he can do that, then I guess history will give him a pass, despite his crucial enabling role in the Iraq fiasco.

]]> By: insider http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/#comment-23131 insider Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:14:02 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/#comment-23131 Why would the US be upset about the comments on Kyoto? It has always said the weakness of the protocol is the fact it is not universal and excludes major emitters and that it favoured global solutions. Why would the US be upset about the comments on Kyoto? It has always said the weakness of the protocol is the fact it is not universal and excludes major emitters and that it favoured global solutions.

]]> By: kingfisher http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/#comment-23128 kingfisher Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:05:53 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/01/28/us-leans-on-ipcc/#comment-23128 Good article in the Globe and Mail about how public alarm about climate change has reached a tipping point in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070127.wclimatemain0127/BNStory/ClimateChange/home Peter www.kotare.typepad.com/thestrategist Good article in the Globe and Mail about how public alarm about climate change has reached a tipping point in Canada.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070127.wclimatema in0127/BNStory/ClimateChange/home

Peter
http://www.kotare.typepad.com/thestrategist

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