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| Europe Missing Kyoto Targets for Emissions |
| 2003-05-06 |
| EFL, from the Beeb The EU as a whole is committed to reducing emissions by 8% on their 1990 levels by between 2008 and 2012. On present trends, it appears to stand almost no chance of keeping its promise. Quick, Ethel, my pills! Not enough signatories have yet ratified the protocol to allow it to enter into force. Two years ago President Bush said the US would not ratify it, and Australia has followed suit. There are now doubts about the willingness of Russia to do so, because some of its prominent scientists apparently believe climate change could be beneficial to the country. Beach balls, baby oil and Lenin's tomb....see it all on your tropical vacation to Moscow!! The Europeans have all along been the protocol's most enthusiastic supporters, and their faltering performance will be Money quote alert.... The prominent UK global warming sceptic Professor Philip Stott commented: "One of the most galling things about the whole climate change debate has been European duplicity. While lecturing everybody else, especially America, on the morality of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it has been abundantly clear from the start that most European countries didn't have a snowflake in hell's chance of meeting their own Kyoto targets." |
| Posted by:Baba Yaga |