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Latest on New Zealand’s Kyoto debacle:
The Kyoto Forestry Association has backed away from its initial claim that the forest industry could “rescue the Government from its predicament by doubling the size of the Kyoto forest estate by 2012”.
Because of the time it takes to acquire suitable land, grow seedlings and grow trees, it is too late to get us out of the hole for the climate change treaty’s “first commitment period”, 2008 to 2012.
That hole is potentially $1.5 billion deep. Greenpeace, whose alarmism helped sucker New Zealand into this, now pleads for reason:
Greenpeace today called for some sanity in the debate over New Zealand’s potential Kyoto deficit ...
A little late for that, isn’t it?
“This is bordering on the ridiculous – the entire debate following the revelation that New Zealand may not meet it’s Kyoto target has assumed that we will do nothing further to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,” said Greenpeace climate campaigner Vanessa Atkinson (tilty compassion picture here.)
“But let’s get real - New Zealand must reduce it’s emissions urgently to help avoid dangerous levels of climate change. If we fail to do that, we will face the double whammy of having to buy carbon credits as well as paying the costs of increased floods, droughts and other climate change impacts.”
What “climate change impacts” is Buffy the Environment Saver talking about? New Zealand’s population is only four million; and, according to its leading business group, “New Zealand produces only 0.2% of world greenhouse gas emissions.” Forget Kyoto; if you closed the whole country down, the reduction in greenhouse emissions would be just one-fifth of one percent. New Zealand is so freaky clean and non globally-warmed that glaciers actually grow there.
(Other recent views on Kyoto and/or this ridiculous New Zealand situation may be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
What would be the benefit to the environment if the entire NZ Green movement lined up in column of fours and marched into the Tasman Sea?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 09 at 04:22 PM • permalinkThere is no such place as New Zealand. No flight to Auckland has ever arrived.
Posted by harry hutton on 2005 07 09 at 06:11 PM • permalinkGreens are like the Mrs. Jellybys of the ecology-loving set. They live in apartments full of dead and dying houseplants because they’re too busy typing up anti-SUV screeds on their expensive Mac G4s.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 07 09 at 10:46 PM • permalinkI pity the dead and dying houseplants, having to breathe the CO2 of the greenies. Must be hell.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 10 at 01:54 AM • permalinkCAUTION!
My anti-viral software started screaming the minute I tried to connect to that Greenpeace website at http://www.greenpeace.gen.nz.
You might want to be careful.
Posted by Secret Agent X-9 on 2005 07 10 at 03:51 AM • permalinkCRAP!
Ok, why did the system auto-link that?! Don’t follow that link up above.
Posted by Secret Agent X-9 on 2005 07 10 at 03:52 AM • permalinkGosh you mac owners are touchy, not to mention you have broken irony meters. The point of what I said had nothing to do with the brand name of the computer. Though I will note that a large number of mac owners also seem to be in the arty-farty greenpeace-‘n’-love set.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 07 10 at 12:44 PM • permalinkI have a great way for New Zealand to help meet their committments. They can slaughter all of their sheep. They produce lots of methane, you know.
Posted by Ann's Fuse Box on 2005 07 10 at 01:01 PM • permalinkAs a charter member of Mac Owners for Global Death I have to protest, Andrea…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 10 at 02:02 PM • permalinkRob Read — I thought you had to do that every week with your PC’s…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 10 at 04:56 PM • permalinkRob Read — All your BIOS are belong to us.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 11 at 01:31 AM • permalinkSince those proponents are generally unreliable, their claims offer no cover for Tim’s false assumption that a small nation’s environmental impact can be evaluated in isolation. A relatively short chain of islands oriented perpendicular to the prevailing wind does not determine its own greenhouse fate, one way or the other.
Many specious arguments are made by those who use fear of global warming to promote a socialist agenda. Having equally specious arguments on our side doesn’t make refuting the crackpots any easier.
Having equally specious arguments on our side doesn’t make refuting the crackpots any easier.
Tim, better have Andrea break out the sarcasm and humor tags. Looks like we need them posted on the blog again. I suggest placing them between the “line” and “quote” buttons.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 11 at 12:02 PM • permalinkThe use of sarcasm and humour in writing is yet more proof of the degeneration of serious political thought among conservatives. As if the absense of pretension, self-consious irony, and morbid predictions of doom weren’t enough to convince anyone with a functioning brain-stem. Ted Rall is truely a voice crying in the wilderness.
The use of sarcasm and humour in writing is yet more proof of the degeneration of serious political thought among conservatives.
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Ted Rall is truely [sic] a voice crying in the wilderness.
Whereas most other people simply use it as a tool, Ted Rall lives for sarcasm in his scribblings. His blogs tend to be less sarcastic, but not noticeably so.
Therefore, Ted Rall suffers from “...degeneration of serious political thought…”, and to a greater degree as well.
Of course, Ted Rall is a hate filled, soul-less, whining assembly of protoplasm to begin with. That’s why I’m boggling at Nathan’s concept that “conservatives” are degenerating, and Ted Rall is a “voice in the wilderness”. That’s true only if you assume the wilderness is in Ted’s mind.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 12 at 02:24 AM • permalinkThe first man to use a wooden ax doubtless considered it merely a tool at first, unaware that his discovery would profoundly impact the history of mankind. He probably had no capacity for serious political thought, either. What makes us human is the realization that each individual is part of a whole, that our actions determine the fate of others, that if we hit people with the ax we can take their food and bask in the lamentations of their women. It is then that we begin to live for the ax, and our voice—the collective voice of humanity—can be heard crying in the wilderness. Like the first man to understand the true nature of the ax, Ted Rall uses sarcasm not only as a tool, but to bludgeon his opponents. In that sense—as in so many others—Ted Rall is not only a hero of the revolution, but a precursor of the next link in human evolution.
Ted Rall is not only a hero of the revolution, but a precursor of the next link in human evolution.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
God, but you’re hilarious! Ever think of going on stage?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 12 at 12:03 PM • permalink
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