“His statement (Obama’s) was followed by pledges from China and India to reduce their energy intensity by 40-45 percent and 20-25 percent, respectively, by 2020. South Africa then announced it would reduce its emissions below projections by 2020 by 34 percent, and pledged to ensure its absolute emissions peak and plateau would occur between 2020 and 2025 – the first such commitment by a major developing nation.”
Lets dissect the non-statements made by the leading pouters in the world. China and India would reduce their “energy intensity”. Energy intensity? As in energy intense industry? So they will.....have more slave labour intensive industry and less mechanized and fuel using industry? Or will they just have the same industry just not be as intense and intent on putting the rest of the world out of a job. So they will only supply Sam W. With a half billion poorly made widgets instead of a billion? So the price will go up on all poorly made products?
A very cagey response to our Lord and Saviour Barak’s enlisting. Perhaps next time he can put some preasure on these corrupt institutions and say, "If you don’t put in equal consumer rights and protections, equal employees rights and protections, equal intellectual rights and protections, equal health care rights and protections, and an equal standard of living, then we are going to ban your widgets." Ohhh no... that would be cruel ...... to the people.
I’ve had it. These people now are the largest privately owned industrialists in the world. It’s no longer just the governments who are skating on the backs of the poor over there. The people are now the government. There are just as many corrupt government and private institutions producing and proffering poorly made, race to the bottom of the lowest common denominator items. I don't care who makes it.
Then they come up with a strategically meaningless statement like that. Only would the Enviro-Weenies accept that as a truism. They lie. Period.
Energy intensity? Pleeeaase!
Next statement. South Africa is lowering their expectations below projections for 2020! What? So all they likely have been doing is saying its a bad state of affairs here in South Africa. We need free outside money to make the place better. Here is a number, see how bad it is? They have no clue what their output or usage will be in 2020. No clue probably what it has been. So they now say they will reduce below projections? They don't have a clue what their projected emissions will be! Another watermelon seed spit into the wind and accepted as a truism by the weenies!
The goals of the conference from their web site.
“1. How much are the industrialized countries willing to
reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases?
2. How much are major developing countries such as China and India willing to
do to limit the growth of their emissions?
3. How is the help needed by developing countries to engage in reducing their
emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change going to be financed?
4. How is that money going to be managed?”
Why is it that we who are already struggling, have capped usage, traded volumes, twisty bulbed our houses, tuned our cars, downsized everything, LED’d our Christmas, had Staycations, and we still have to reduce our emissioins.
But those who use dirty coal, slave labour, bad environmental practices, no controls, only have to reduce how much their emissions will grow?
Only in a conference like this could one talk about money and it not be inherently stated that the management of that money is implicit with the money giving of it.
Weasely words from a conference which should have been net based and not based on thousands of people flying all over hells half acre along with their trail of reporters, protestors, and hangers on, wives and concubines. The energy wasted and emissions created from this one conference will be equal to that of one of these developing countries for a year.
Again. Give every household 20 grand to put in solar panels to generate electricity and you will grow a huge enviro-industry, save the emissions, and go green all in one act.
No three act play here.
Mark Hull Du Calumet, first of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler
http://en.cop15.dk/
If one hands over 20 grand so a home owner can install a solar panel and save the earth and rid us of dirty coal generation, how do we charge a monthly bill? It's mass financing that drives our economy. Telephone charges, electricity charges, gas, water and sewer. If they overcharged $2 on every bill imagine the tally. When they can figure out how to install a solar panel and charge you a monthly bill they can pad with fake charges... it will come!
Posted by: Tim | 12/15/2009 at 06:19 AM