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International-UN-NGOs
Kofi Whines About Kyoto - Again (Still)
2004-03-23
MESSAGE ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE 21 March 2004
Ten years is not long in the history of a problem whose scale is measured in centuries.
But I thought you clowns said it’s all our fault in the last 30 years! Before that, it was global cooling. Make up your minds.
What ever happened to Nuclear Winter?
Nevertheless, significant progress has been achieved in the decade since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change entered into force.
But not as much as you’d like - you still haven’t been able to sucker us into signing it. Bwhahahaha
The issue of climate change has been placed firmly on local, national and international agendas, in the forefront of public and media scrutiny, and in the strategies of a growing number of businesses. Institutions and processes have been put in place to enable the world’s governments to take action, to coordinate those steps, and to measure the results. Annual meetings of the states that are party to the convention -- now numbering 188 -- draw thousands of participants from governments, business, civil society and international organizations.
Who do not one g-d thing but talk. (Which, considering the people involved, isn’t necessarily a bad thing.)
The Convention has also served as an important market signal, helping new technologies to emerge. For example, the use of wind energy is increasing, industrial processes are being made more efficient, hybrid vehicles are finding their way into the marketplace, and investments in breakthrough technologies involving hydrogen use and carbon capture are on the rise.
You want to really contribute, Kofi? Find a way to harness all the hot air coming out of the UN.
Wind energy's a dead end. Industrial processes are made more efficient in response to the combined stimuli of markets and available technology. Hybrid vehicles are neat, pricey, and probably a technological dead end. Investments in breakthrough technologies involving hydrogen and carbon capture respond to OPEC, rather than to Kofi. A neat lumping of multiple effects with attribution to a single, unrelated cause.
The Convention’s financial mechanism has also channeled almost $10 billion to climate change projects in poor countries, which are the most vulnerable to the impacts of the phenomenon.
Care to explain exactly how, Koffin? Or are we just supposed to take your word for it?
The Convention’s goal of returning the greenhouse gas emissions of industrialized countries to their 1990 levels by the year 2000 was achieved for those countries as a whole. However, for most individual countries, emissions of greenhouse gases are now increasing.
Maybe because there are more people in the world? Maybe we should cut down on that. Let’s start with you and the other useless wankers in the UN.
Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, a key measure of long-term success, have increased about 5 per cent in the past decade.
No doubt from your hot air again.
Told ya we shouldn't have saved the rain forests. It's all those trees...
All countries must carry out more intensive efforts to limit future emissions, with developed countries taking a clear lead. There is also a need for more concerted action to adapt to climate change, since some of its effects are by now inevitable and, indeed, we may already be seeing – in the increased incidence of drought, floods and extreme weather events that many regions are experiencing – some of the devastation that lies ahead.
Or maybe we’re just keeping better records, and know more about these things happening around the world because of the 24-hour news maw that needs to be fed with something. Where’s your statistical proof that the incidence has increased? Increased where? And compared to when? Last year? 1000 B.C.? 1932?
I think it's signs and portents, myself. Unless holy men quit dabbling in politix, God will continue occasionally dropping a warning, until He loses patience and it starts raining real hard. Then Kofi can form a committee on Global Precipitation. 40 days and 40 nights later, they'll be discovered by the survivors, two dozen pillars of salt, sitting around a soggy conference table...
This anniversary is also a moment to reiterate strong support for the Convention’s Kyoto Protocol. The Protocol’s lack of entry into force remains a major hurdle to effective global
action.
of hobbling the U.S. economy so you jealous slack-offs won’t feel so bad that we’re more productive than you are.
I call again on those countries that have not yet ratified the Protocol to do so, and show that they are truly committed to shouldering their global responsibilities.
of sending their economies into the toilet.
The global fight against climate change is a vast undertaking that will require sustained global citizenship
There it is - the Tranzis again. Surprise, surprise. Paging Mr. Kerry....
and vision for decades to come. The international community should take pride in what it has done thus far to respond to this challenge. But only if these efforts are truly re-energized will we place our societies on more secure footing, and avert the calamities that the world’s best science
Kofi, you’ve mispelled "worst-case scenario wild-assed guess" again
tells us lie ahead if we continue on our present course.
straight to hell
Aw, jeez, Kofi, stuff a sock in it. Wotta maroon.
Posted by:Barbara Skolaut bskolaut@hotmail.com

#6  Hybrids are now economical because Chavez wants them to be. There are some good after-market chips available that will probably become standard equipment if this keeps up. TCS has Baptist, Bootleggers and Wind Power that seems to imply that Kofi owns stock in wind power companies and hopes to encourage mandated use in sucker countries that want business to flee to locations where the cost of business is not inflated by stupid ideas.
A worse idea is the highly controversial United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, which will make the Oil-For-Food irregularities look like a employee shrinkage at a burger joint.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-3-24 2:45:02 AM  

#5  Isn't it strange that Global Warming has existed ever since the U.N. was created?

The solution is simple. Dispose of the U.N. and Global Warming will be solved!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-3-24 12:03:56 AM  

#4  I've always been convinced that Major League Baseball causes Global Warming. Especially in July and August. Just a theory...
Posted by: tu3031   2004-3-23 11:47:36 PM  

#3  LOL! "What ever happened to Nuclear Winter?"
And Silent Spring?
Posted by: .com   2004-3-23 9:51:08 PM  

#2  [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by: Removed   2004-3-23 9:11:42 PM  

#1  Kyoto: Putting the mental in environmentalism since 1997
Posted by: badanov   2004-3-23 8:51:11 PM  

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