Complaining About The Weather

After a very mild November that probably saved me more than $100 in heating costs (I love those months that require neither heat nor air conditioning) December has become very cold. It's probably not just cold in the Northeast. My guess is is it got colder almost everywhere. It seems a very large percentage of the world's warm air has been concentrated in and around Montreal, Canada.

The meeting is mostly a last chance for the environmentally devout to get together with the stridently anti-industrial crown to use the fading remnants of Kyoto to bash the Americans.

Here are some interesting statistics about the self-righteous victims of Kyoto. Here are their Co2 level changes based on the Kyoto 1990 benchmark.

Canada +24%

Japan +24%

Spain +42%

Portugal +37%

It seems that the total failure of the Kyoto Protocol might not be result of the U.S. not being a signatory after all. Especially when you consider that U.S. emission levels have only risen 13%.

There cannot be many people who do not understand (even if they are unwilling to admit it) that Kyoto was nothing more than an attempt and global industrial/economic egalitarianism of the worst kind. The kind that does not seek to raise the level of those a the bottom, but whose only goal is to bring down those at the top.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:19 PM | No Comments | Add Comment