Comment Re:The Nero generation (Score 1) 358
The thing is, the true effects of the kyoto treaty are overlooked because "we are saving the world". For one kyoto gave a free pass to China who will one day be the worst polluter. For another, kyoto would have systematically kept any other developing/third world country from joining us in the first world. Pollution controls would have made that impossible, and I ask you, is it fair to say we have x developed nations, and therefore if your not developed as of today, you can live in poverty because you are happier there? Not saying most people who believe in Kyoto think that third world countries are happy there, but you must have some justification for keeping those countries in poverty....
Whatever you want to say about saving the world, you have to realize that you enjoy living in an advanced country that does indeed burn fossil fuels. In effect kyoto would have encouraged the rich nations to plunder the poorer nations just like in the past. Sure it would have cost the US and Australia the most money, but thats just a by-product of a treaty that can not be proven scientifically to even come close to "saving the environment."
Just because everyone believes the rags we call newspapers does not mean global warming is man-caused by any means. Heck, my newspaper 7 years ago told me That the world's best doctors said I would get cancer by living next to a high-tension power line because of the magnetic field. And today "certified Doctors" tell me that magnetic fields will cure me of ails through advertisements in that same newspaper. We understand magnetic fields better today, and seeing that my weather forcaster can not even predict weather 10 days from now, how the heck am I supposed to believe doomsday predictions of 20 years from now? Am I supposed to believe that we can predict weather 20-30 years from now, but not 10 days?
Use your common sense, sure global warming might occur in the next 20 years, but I think it might be more likely that global warming would occur in 2000 years from now. Or maybe we will enter another ice age. Our climate is always changing, heck in the last 1000 years we have had a mini ice age, a "hot" age and now today we think its the end of the world because we are having a temperature increase similar to the one we have already had in the last 1000 years. Maybe we will destroy the earth. But I doubt we can accuratly predict when that will happen considering we can't even predict weather 10 days from now, let alone years from now.
Whatever you want to say about saving the world, you have to realize that you enjoy living in an advanced country that does indeed burn fossil fuels. In effect kyoto would have encouraged the rich nations to plunder the poorer nations just like in the past. Sure it would have cost the US and Australia the most money, but thats just a by-product of a treaty that can not be proven scientifically to even come close to "saving the environment."
Just because everyone believes the rags we call newspapers does not mean global warming is man-caused by any means. Heck, my newspaper 7 years ago told me That the world's best doctors said I would get cancer by living next to a high-tension power line because of the magnetic field. And today "certified Doctors" tell me that magnetic fields will cure me of ails through advertisements in that same newspaper. We understand magnetic fields better today, and seeing that my weather forcaster can not even predict weather 10 days from now, how the heck am I supposed to believe doomsday predictions of 20 years from now? Am I supposed to believe that we can predict weather 20-30 years from now, but not 10 days?
Use your common sense, sure global warming might occur in the next 20 years, but I think it might be more likely that global warming would occur in 2000 years from now. Or maybe we will enter another ice age. Our climate is always changing, heck in the last 1000 years we have had a mini ice age, a "hot" age and now today we think its the end of the world because we are having a temperature increase similar to the one we have already had in the last 1000 years. Maybe we will destroy the earth. But I doubt we can accuratly predict when that will happen considering we can't even predict weather 10 days from now, let alone years from now.
