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Labor leader Kim Beazley recently announced he’d sign the Kyoto Protocol, were he ever given the chance. How has that protocol worked out in Japan, where the stupid thing was drafted?

Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 0.6 percent in the fiscal year to March as oil consumption for heating climbed, taking it further from its Kyoto Protocol target to cut pollution, the government said on Tuesday.

Japan’s Environment Ministry said preliminary data showed emission of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), were 1.364 billion tonnes in the fiscal year, reversing a slight decline in 2004-2005 and 14.1 percent above its Kyoto target.

That’ll cost. Add Japan to Germany and New Zealand as Kyoto dupes.

Posted by Tim B. on 10/19/2006 at 04:30 AM

  1. Australia’s collective CO2 emissions would drop by approximately 37% the instant the front bench of the Federal ALP shut their gaping maws.

    Posted by CB on 2006 10 19 at 04:44 AM • permalink

  2. CB, aren’t you being a tad conservative in your estimate?

    Posted by dover_beach on 2006 10 19 at 05:15 AM • permalink

  3. Never mind the targets; it’s all about feeling righteous.

    Posted by slammer on 2006 10 19 at 05:25 AM • permalink

  4. OT -  saw a great bumper sticker today.

    I’M PART OF THE GREAT RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY - AND PROUD OF IT

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 10 19 at 05:37 AM • permalink

  5. Does anyone know of an advanced industrial society that has met their Kyoto goals?  And lived?

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 10 19 at 05:39 AM • permalink

  6. Can’t be bothered finding a link, but I think Australia went very close to meeting its “Kyoto targets” last year, even though we didn’t sign the bloody thing.  Of course this positive is overlooked by those who condem HoWARd for not signing Kyoto.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 10 19 at 05:55 AM • permalink

  7. In Howard’s interview on 18 Doughty Street he explains that Australia has met the Kyoto targets set for it - and noted how states that had signed up had failed to achieve theirs.

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 10 19 at 06:21 AM • permalink

  8. I think you can add Canada to the dupes - they went over as well. They have a similar problem to us in that with the mineral boom, more mines open up and boy do they chew through the juice.

    For example the big Cadia mine uses about 1% of NSW electricity consumption. No wonder the lights dim every time that big bruiser SAG mill of theirs is kicked in the guts. Its all good.

    Posted by rbresca on 2006 10 19 at 07:15 AM • permalink

  9. #4 - This is what I laser-print on the back of envelopes, especially those going to Government departments:

    This envelope proudly produced from chlorine-bleached pulp sourced from old-growth forest waste. Warranted virgin material.  Contains no recycled waste matter.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2006 10 19 at 07:16 AM • permalink

  10. Kim and the rest of the moonbat coalition need to see the Kyoto Proctologist.
    They have something fairly useless up their orifice that needs to be expunged.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 10 19 at 07:30 AM • permalink

  11. My estimate was very conservative. The Lancet puts it at well over 655000% drop in hot air pollutants.

    Posted by CB on 2006 10 19 at 07:30 AM • permalink

  12. Labor leader Kim Beazley recently announced he’d sign the Kyoto Protocol, were he ever given the chance.

    To have any chance of meeting the Kyoto targets, Beazley would have to give up his cabbage soup diet.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 19 at 07:58 AM • permalink

  13. For a certain class of tranz-progressive politicians and international bureaucrats, adopting the right attitudes and poses—to the applause of the media, bien pensant opinion and others like them—has replaced action as a sign of virtue.

    It hasn’t been about actually doing anything for quite some time.  Soothing words and good intentions are what count.

    Posted by cosmo on 2006 10 19 at 08:36 AM • permalink

  14. hmm missing targets..
    The “AMERICAN bolt from a BOEING aircraft which plunged(like a bolt from the blue) into a Sydney? man’s rooftop and ceiling recently,turns out now to be a (harmless) Singapore Airlines aircraft bolt.

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 19 at 10:06 AM • permalink

  15. As an Aussie in Kyoto, I think Japan could use some global warming.  Particularly in the winter months.

    Posted by Schizm on 2006 10 19 at 10:23 AM • permalink

  16. #12 Beazley’s been tilting at treadmills?

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 19 at 10:31 AM • permalink

  17. #9 Walter I’m going to borrow that for all my snail mail. Gold.

    Posted by The Prez on 2006 10 19 at 07:20 PM • permalink

  18. How do you fit a male snail in a laser printer?  And why would you send it to a government department?

    Posted by kcom on 2006 10 19 at 08:02 PM • permalink

  19. Labor leader Kim Beazley recently announced he’d sign the Kyoto Protocol, were he ever given the chance.

    Maybe Kim hasn’t heard.  You’re not given that chance, you have to earn it.

    Posted by kcom on 2006 10 19 at 08:03 PM • permalink

  20. How can Japan’s heating oil use be increasing when the planet is warmening?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 19 at 08:21 PM • permalink

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