| OriGin said: Man Squrriel you know way too much dude!!! I was talking about Kyoto Protocol, I just couldn't think about the name - in all do you consider that if a country is to abide by the Kyoto Protocol then it is of benefit to the planet? Perhaps you're right about Gore, I didn't follow it as closely as I do now back then so I guess my view on things is skewed and jaded because I see Gore as the 'poor man' and Bush as the 'war criminal' - either way it's all okay for Gore to act 'holier than thou' since he was never elected, but I don't really get how Bush was elected, it just didn't seem legal. |
I personally think the Kyoto protocol is a waste of time ...
The Kyoto protocol is a treaty that is based on a "Scientific Consensus" which really does not exist; there are currently thousands of researchers who can show evidence that some or all of the symptoms of "Global Warming" are caused by a variety of factors like Dirty Snow from soot (produced from industry) that is causing an increase in the melting in the North Pole, smog in South East Asia increasing the ammount of solar energy absorbed by the atmosphere, solar cycles manipulating the formations of clouds, and measurement errors demonstrating a warming trend where one does not exist.
None of the alternative sources for global warming are mentioned or dealt with in the Kyoto protocol and it is plausable that the Kyoto protocol could make some of them far worse.
Many hard-line conservatives use this information to mock liberals and claim that this shows there is no reason to change our actions ...
In my opinion, most of these problems are caused directly or indirectly from the excessive use of energy and there are countless social, economic, environemental and security reasons why westerners should drastically reduce the ammount of energy they use. Kyoto doesn't address the need to reduce energy consumption and only focuses on carbon dioxide produced and released into the atmosphere so as long as someone finds a way to trap the carbon dioxide (potentially by converting it to a heavier, more complicated molecule) the world can continue burning energy at an unsustainable rate ...
