Word: kyoto
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...September, officials from over 150 countries met at a U.N. conference on climate change and the international response to global warming. Many saw this conference as testing ground for ideas likely to be presented in a separate December conference in Bali, which will address what legislation should supplant the Kyoto Protocol upon its 2013 expiration. At September’s conference, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s presentation veered noticably away from the idea of emissions caps, focusing almost exclusively on the potential of improved “energy technologies.” Paired with President Bush?...
...largely responsible for the state of the world’s environment. Global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect, or the retention of “greenhouse gases,” like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, within the atmosphere. In 1990, the year that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol took into account when setting emission reduction goals, the U.S. produced 36% of all global emissions, making it the world’s biggest net polluter. More recent evidence suggests China has now surpassed the U.S. as biggest net polluter; the U.S., however, still emits more greenhouse gases...
Despite our overwhelming contribution to global warming and the constant political rhetoric that action is being taken, the U.S. has failed to independently reduce emissions by even the 6% from 1990 levels that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol would have asked of us. On the contrary, between just 1990 and 2004 our carbon dioxide emissions increased by 15.8%. Had we independently reduced greenhouse gas emissions, the Senate’s current refusal to ratify the new Kyoto treaty might be excusable. As it stands, however, we appear both hypocritical and uncooperative...
...Rudd, whose tightly managed campaign began the moment he became Labor leader last December, has stressed his economic conservatism. Accused of copying government policies, he listed five "fundamental differences": Labor's plans to moderate recent workplace reforms, pump money into health and education, ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and pull troops from Iraq...
...crypt, but not as a zombie. The foolishly conventional Republican McCain of last year was the zombie. No, this is the funny, free-range McCain reincarnated, the independent who dares speak to an environmental forum in New Hampshire, touting his green credentials, actually supporting a return to the Kyoto global-warming negotiations, which is anathema to most Republicans. That guy - the interesting one - is back...