[cdn-nucl-l] Re: It's All Over: Kyoto Protocol Loses Four Big Nations

[Bill Garland <garlandw@mcmaster.ca>]

This is a development that is very relevant to nuclear
power.  It seems to me that the Anthropological Global Warming,
er... Climate Change er.. Climate Disruption Movement is all but
over.  Old news really.  The extent to which nuclear power
proponents hitched their wagon to AGW/CC/CD will be the extent to which
nuclear will be dragged down by AGW/CC/CD's demise.  Watch for the
disappearance of any mention of global warming in pro nuclear
arguments.  Perhaps now the world can get back to saner
arguments.  Well, one can hope I suppose.

Bill

At 06:18 PM 30/05/2011, Jerry Cuttler wrote:

Greenpeace setback?
 
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It’s All Over: Kyoto Protocol Loses Four Big Nations

 


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Saturday, 28 May 2011 16:58 Agence France-Presse

DEAUVILLE, France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty, European diplomats have said.

The future of the Kyoto Protocol has become central to efforts to negotiate reductions of carbon emissions under the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, whose annual meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9.

Developed countries signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. They agreed to legally binding commitments on curbing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

Those pledges expire at the end of next year. Developing countries say a second round is essential to secure global agreements.

But the leaders of Russian, Japan and Canada confirmed they would not join a new Kyoto agreement, the diplomats said.

They argued that the Kyoto format did not require developing countries, including China, the world’s No. 1 carbon emitter, to make targeted emission cuts.

At last Thursday’s G8 dinner the US President, Barack Obama, confirmed Washington would not join an updated Kyoto Protocol, the diplomats said.

The US, the second-largest carbon emitter, signed the protocol in 1997 but in 2001 the then president, George W. Bush, said he would not put it to the Senate for ratification.
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 The SENATE previously rejected the Kyoto Protocol during the Clinton Administration, despite V President Al Gore's role in the negotiations !!!...
"Although the Clinton administration accepted the terms of the Kyoto pact, including mandatory reductions in emissions in the United States, the Senate refused ­ by a unanimous vote ­ to even consider ratifying the treaty because it made no demands of developing nations." http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/todd_d_stern/index.html

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