US Wants to Join Climate Negotiations, Despite Resistance to Emissions Cuts

December 5, 2007

  • December 5, 2007 at 9:34 am
    ad says:
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    Thank goodness the US is standing its ground. Great article on opinionjournal.com today about how the science of gorebal warming developed. Very interesting, especially liked this statement, “[t]he current age of global warming politics will certainly end with a whimper once a few consecutive years of cooling are recorded.” My biggest problem is how much US taxpayer money will have been dumped into this before we decide its as real as the ice age coming in the 70s?

  • December 5, 2007 at 10:10 am
    Wow says:
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    I am (still) shocked when reading the comments posted on this site regarding global warming. I have to assume it is nothing other than a total ignorance of the actual issue(s) based on the responses posted here. I don’t believe anyone who understands and accepts the general science behind global climate change argues the cyclical patterns of weather over long periods of time. That would be idiocy as over billions of years the planet has undergone extreme cosmetic and atmospheric changes. However, considering the relative short years of industries impact on the environment, we have a lot to be worried about.

    Also, the finger pointing and personal attacks are childish in debating this issue. If the only way you think you can win this debate is blaming Al Gore, China, India, the UN, blahblahblah please don’t bother posting and wasting your time. I hope that the next President and future administrations change our enviromental policies and prove the “Global Warming Propagandists Left Wing Conspiracy To Change The US Into A Social Marxist Tree Hugging Dirt Worshiping Society” wrong. I sure as hell hope that science rather than the Glen O’reilys gut-feeling crowd wins this debate.

  • December 5, 2007 at 1:40 am
    abc says:
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    The US needs to accept that it is a massive contributor to the environmental damage that is happening.

    It is clear to anyone who simply walks outside that global weather patterns are changing (flooding, heat waves) and all the emissions that are pumped into the atmosphere each day, especially by the Americans and their love of gas guzzling automobiles, are a massive factor here. You don’t need to be a scientist to understand that the planet is going to react to all that pollution.

    The US likes to tell others what to do, but isn’t grown up enough to accept any responsibility.

  • December 5, 2007 at 1:41 am
    Sir Newton says:
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    “My biggest problem is how much US taxpayer money will have been dumped into this before we decide its as real as the ice age coming in the 70s?”

    Answer: As long as the people let the parasitic scum, oops! I mean bureaucrats and politicians, take it from them. Of course, I will admit that the people have little choice in some cases as the government is taking it at the barrel of a gun. As the totalitarian butcher (or do I repeat myself?) Mao Zedong said, “All political power flows from the barrel of a gun.”

  • December 5, 2007 at 1:50 am
    Chilly says:
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    CO2 is 2% of “greenhouse gases.” Water vapor is 97% of “greenhouse gases.” Please tell us, ABC, what therefore can humans do to have any real eefect on “global warming”?

    Interestingly, about a bzillion tons of CO2 will be spewed out by the hundreds of useless UN bureaucrats attending this climate conference. Also interestingly, the UN wants $86 billion to save humanity from “global warming.” If only the UN had been around during the last Ice Age, a mile-thick glacier might still extend from NJ to CA.

  • December 5, 2007 at 2:06 am
    Take a look around says:
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    It’s pretty sad that people still think that humans aren’t affecting the globe in a detrimental manner. And even sader is the money this government is spending on fighting the rest of the world on this issue instead of taking the lead and looking for a solution. If you want, you can argue global warming, but you cannot argue the state of the oceans (amount of trash being dumped, barrier reefs dying, etc.), the mass extinction of species, changes in eco systemsetc. We humans are affecting this globe like never before. Should we not take a step back and make sure we are not shooting ourselve in the foot (or the head to be more exact)? There is only one earth. Let try and perserve it and live with nature rather than conquering it and realizing we need it to survive.

  • December 5, 2007 at 2:21 am
    Chilly says:
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    You conceded the point when you say that global warming can be argued.

    If you are concerned generally about the environmental in ways other than the climate, which we have absolutely no ability to change inadvertantly or control purposefully, capitalist countries (US, UK, Singapore etc) are the cleanest. Communist countries (Cuba, China, former Warsaw Pact nations) are the dirtiest.

    The UN is a Communist and Muslim conspiracy to destroy Western civilization, so what do you think they are going to say and do about the environment (as if they even give a rat’s *ss about it) but that the West is responsible and must be hamstrung?

    How many tons are CO2 are the hundreds of delegates emiting from the jets they’re flying to get to this stupid conference?

  • December 5, 2007 at 2:35 am
    Little Frog says:
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    … by Glenn Beck. I’m old enough to remember the Global Cooling Scare 30 years ago, the Saccarin scare, the Oatmeal scare, Psychadelic Banana skins, and Johnny Carson’s toilet paper shortage. The worst poluters were the Soviet Bloc “industries” and now China. Of course, on our worst day we can’t hold a candle to volcanos and wild fires. All of this is just the latest plan to get us all to take our place on the Global Plantation run by Gore & CO., and the international elite. The biggest obstacle to this Global Socialism is the United States; and remember, as so elequently explained by Brittish Soccer fans a few years back: “if it weren’t for US, you’d all be Krouts”.

  • December 5, 2007 at 2:52 am
    Al's Brother says:
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    Albert Einstein once said that the greatest scientists are humble in that they are always willing to have their theories and ideas attacked and change them as necessary and do not believe that they have the final answer. Using that standard, the “global warming” crowd doesn’t include one scientist among them. Their stance (including some who masquerade under the title “scientist”) is as follows: “Global warming is real! It’s all due to mankind! If we don’t make drastic changes right now, the earth and all life on it will die in….well…I’m not sure but probably 50 to 100 years! The matter is settled! The theory of global warming is irrefutable and there will be no more discussion of it! Please governments, save us now!”

  • December 5, 2007 at 2:53 am
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    Two big climate conferences have been held in less than a month, both in idyllic, far-flung holiday destinations — first Valencia, Spain, and now Bali. They were preceded by dozens of smaller gatherings. In Bangkok, Paris, Vienna, Washington, New York and Sydney, in Rio de Janeiro, Anchorage, Helsinki and the Indian Ocean island of Kurumba…

    The U.N. estimates 47,000 tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants will be pumped into the atmosphere during the 12-day conference in Bali, mostly from plane flights but also from waste and electricity used by hotel air conditioners.

    If correct, that is equivalent to what a Western city of 1.5 million people, such as Marseilles, France, would emit in a day, or what Chad churns out in six months to a year.



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