Monday, August 22, 2005
SPECIES THRIVING
Global warming concernists John McCain and Hillary Clinton tour the molten north:
[Clinton] said that flying over the Yukon she saw forests decimated by spruce bark beetles - believed to be growing at an unprecedented rate because of warmer weather.
She was also struck by what she heard from a 93-year-old woman she met at a fish camp at Whitehorse, Yukon.
The woman told her she had been fishing there all her life but that lately the fish had strange bumps on them.
Lump fish! Caused by the deadly warming, no doubt. Meanwhile, in Kyoto-screwed New Zealand:
The review of the Kyoto Protocol needs to be considered in the context of the promises on taxation being made by the main political parties, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.
Government has acknowledged the costs of Kyoto are much greater than Climate Change Minister Hodgson first thought, said Alasdair Thompson, EMA’s chief executive ...
"Authoritative researchers BERL and Castalia have said up to $14 billion should be allowed to cover our obligations under Kyoto.
"That’s well over 10 per cent of New Zealand’s total GDP that could end up being spent paying Russia for carbon credits.”
So if sending money to Russia will solve global warming ... maybe sending skateboards to Portugal will fix global poverty! It’s worth a try! Another NZ business group is similarly dismissive of Kyoto’s benefits:
Signing up to the Kyoto protocol was based on wrong maths and our membership must be revisited by any incoming government, the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce and Industry says.
In its election-year address, the chamber, which represents 22,000 businesses in 31 areas, said it was now clear the calculations behind entry to the protocol were wrong.
Noting the protocol was backed by both National and Labour, the chamber said it wanted answers to how the mistakes in calculations were made and whether officials or ministers were being held to account.
Who cares? Russia will get New Zealand’s money; therefore everything is going to plan. If you wish to assist, buy a Green car.