Monday, April 11, 2005
SUBLIME TO RIDICULOUS TO COSMICALLY TRAGIC
Bunch of environmental conferences in Australia recently. Alan Oxley reports:
For the first time in Australia, Australia’s leading advocates of the Kyoto model were required to publicly defend the “official” UN science supporting Kyoto to their peers. They were not successful. Doubts about the UN science are increasing in Australia.
Meanwhile, the Kyoto Protocol is moribund. This was crystal clear at the UN climate change conference in Argentina last November. The US, Italy, China and developing countries decided Kyoto would not extend beyond 2012. Overtures by the EU to extend it were rejected.
Most greens pretend this did not occur. They also ignore something else. Most governments around the world are not persuaded by the claims that global warming presents a cataclysmic threat. It they were, they would not have walked away from the Kyoto Protocol.
Meanwhile, in Kyoto-exempt China:
Angry club-wielding villagers clashed with police in riot gear, overturned police cars and hurled rocks at policemen holed up in a local high school, villagers and local officials said by telephone.
The women were protesting against pollution from nearby chemical factories.
Get to work, Greenpeace! Take on the corrupt commie chemical companies! And now, some serious environmental news:
A deadly parasite has destroyed the second-largest producer of the internationally-renowned Sydney rock oyster.
And there are fears it may wipe out the entire Sydney rock oyster industry unless it is contained.
"The commercial oyster industry at the Hawkesbury is finished,” said Roger Clark, president of the Oyster Farmers’ Association of NSW.
This … this is … I’m sorry. I can’t find the words.