Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Global Warming Destroys More than Glaciers

Found this article today. A 17 year old kid was admitted to psychiatric ward in Australia because he had apocolyptic visions of the future due to "global warming". Its just sad the Al Gore's of the world have destroyed this poor kids life. Hopefully there is still time to talk some sense into the kid. The article goes on to discuss the Australian Prime Minister's plan for cutting emissions and how they will cost billions of dollars, but in reality will have absolutely no effect on total world emissions.

Indeed, so fast are the world's emissions growing -- by 3.1 per cent a year thanks mostly to these two giants -- that the 20 per cent cuts Rudd demands of Australians by 2020 would be swallowed up in just 28 days. That's how little our multi-billions of dollars in sacrifices will matter.

I also like the discussion on why India and China have no plans on cutting their emissions in the future.

Said Ma Kai, head of China's powerful State Council: "China does not commit to any quantified emissions-reduction commitments . . . our efforts to fight climate change must not come at the expense of economic growth."

The plan's authors, the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, said India would rather save its people from poverty than global warming, and would not cut growth to cut gases.

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