U.S. CO2 emissions better than Kyoto signatories!
From Instapundit:
GEORGE W. BUSH, CLIMATE-CHANGE HERO:
The Kyoto treaty was agreed upon in late 1997 and countries started signing and ratifying it in 1998. A list of countries and their carbon dioxide emissions due to consumption of fossil fuels is available from the U.S. government. If we look at that data and compare 2004 (latest year for which data is available) to 1997 (last year before the Kyoto treaty was signed), we find the following.
* Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
* Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
* Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
* Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.
In fact, emissions from the U.S. grew slower than those of over 75% of the countries that signed Kyoto.They told me that if George W. Bush were elected, the United States would lag behind the rest of the world on greenhouse gases And they were right!
UPDATE: Actually, if you look at the most recent years the news gets better:U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels decreased by 1.3 percent in 2006, from 5,955 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2005 to 5,877 MMTCO2 in 2006, according to preliminary estimates recently released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The economy, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), grew by 3.3 percent and energy demand fell by 0.9 percent indicating that energy intensity (energy use per unit of GDP) fell by 4.2 percent. Carbon dioxide intensity (CO2 emission per unit of GDP) fell by 4.5 percent.The market seems to be doing what Kyoto hasn’t. (Somewhat related item here).
Wow. “Do as I say, not as I do”, enviro-nuts?
I have been saying for quite some time that the overwhelming #1 reason that Kyoto (and similar crap) was passed was to burden the U.S. to the point of wrecking its economy, and this here proves it. After all, if other countries were primarily motivated by “saving humanity” from a cosmic microwave tomb, they would be leading the way instead of getting punked by the “evil” America.
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U.S. CO2 Emissions Better than Kyoto Signatories
Folks, you just couldn’t make up this sort of irony if you tried.One
would think that countries that committed to the Kyoto treaty are doing
a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would also think that
the United States, the only…
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sweet
Comment by Opinionnation | December 22, 2007
Much like in the same vein I would use energy efficient light-bulbs not because I wanna go green I wanna save green!
Though I wouldn’t use “environmentally friendly” toilets!
My brother said his school had what I would call green toilets but they aren’t very efficient which is why I don’t consider these toilets to be environmentally friendly.
The question is do I want my environment to be friendly to humans or bacteria!
Comment by Chilerkle | December 25, 2007