D Smith wrote:
(Doug Miller) writes:
In article , D Smith wrote:
...and that is the incentive to get Kyoto done, make every effort to
meet the targets, and then at the next stage of negotiations get more
countries involved, eventually getting ALL countries on side. The
exclusion of developing countries from targets should be considered
temporary, and that was the plan with Kyoto.
.. and *that* makes it obvious that the motives behind Kyoto are primarily
political, not scientific.
No, it makes it obvious that the people who are concerned about
increasing carbon dioxide know that it is a global problem, and no single
In this case, the "people concerned about increasing carbon dioxide" are principally
political hacks and other bottom-feeding scoundrels with minimal understanding
of actual science. This does not in any way speak to whether or not GW is
a real problem or not. But, Kyoto is a political cesspool, nothing more.
country or subset of countries can find a complete solution in isolation.
In order to keep the pool clean, you have to stop _everyone_ from
peeing in it.
Then why does Kyoto punish the people who are barely in the pool and who never
pee in it while requiring little or nothing from those using the pool as their
outhouse?