Posted by
Average Voter on Monday, December 31, 2007 4:03:28 PM
The Norwegian folk are a
polluting bunch. From 1990 thru 2004 their emissions have gone up 80%.
Erik Solheim, the government minister in charge of environmental issues who was in Bali last week, admits that Norway's own high level of emissions is "embarrassing." That's why the government plans to donate NOK 15 billion (nearly USD 3 billion) over the next five years to help preserve the world's rain forests. That's viewed as an efficient way of offsetting carbon emissions.
So, keep on polluting, just give some money to someone who says they are using it to save the rain forests and your golden.
Norway's next door neighbors the Swede's reduced their emissions by almost nine percent in the same time frame.
Here are the numbers again from some of the countries that signed Kyoto and the U.S. numbers. Based on growth, we did pretty darn good.