U.S. defends itself on global warming

[deadparrot]

NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States is doing better lately than some countries in restraining growth of global warming gases, and it isn't likely to change its stand against mandatory controls, a U.S. negotiator said Monday as 5,000 delegates opened the annual U.N. climate conference.

Among those nations that do accept the Kyoto Protocol's emissions caps, "with few exceptions you're seeing those emissions rise again," Harlan Watson told reporters.

The chief American delegate was defending the U.S. position as an industrial country that rejects Kyoto's obligatory reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists blame for global warming.

Others here, meanwhile, sounded a more urgent note about growing perils from climate change.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061106/ap_on_sc/climate_conference

[hatrack]

1. US Offers Wheelbarrows Filled With Steaming Mounds Of Same Old Shit

US Defends Total Leadership Vacuum

US Defends Inability To Recognize Reality

[Double T]

2. The USA as the greatest offender will NOT assume culpability nor......

will THEY ever do anything about IT until IT is too late. Corrupt criminals beholding to the corrupt corporations will NEVER be environmental protection leaders.

[Benhurst]

3. When you are the World's Only Superpower,

you have no option but to play with yourself.

[modrepub]

4. Industry making changes

While the feds seem opposed to addressing the issue I've seen some signs that industry is coming around (even if it's only slightly, it's something to hand our hats on). One of the cement industry people I know openly talks about sequestration technology. Lots more CO released in the production of cement than power production. To hear him talk makes me feel that a lot of industry are beginning to acknowledge that this is a problem they can no longer ignore because they may at some point be held accountable for openly lying like the cigarette industry. I am very familiar with the issue since it was something that I was very interested in during my graduate studies back in the early 90s. I'm not an alarmist but even then I knew that there would be little if any chance of changing the outcome given the drastic lifestyle changes we' all have to agree on.

[hatrack]

5. Nice to hear, but they'd better hurry

nt

[MasonJar]

6. The German co. that owns LG&E (Louisville's energy company)

has just announced it will build a new plant with energy efficient guidelines...big time efficient. Of course it is a German company. Germany is eons ahead of the US.

[VegasWolf]

7. No, the Bush administration defends itself. nt