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Scaling Back Their Expectations At U.N. Climate Talks

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:32:01 AM
   The expectations of the IPCC are finally connecting with reality. The arebacking away from the expectation of having a climate treaty in this year to replace the 97' Kyoto treaty this year.
 
Janos Pasztor, director of the secretary-general's Climate Change Support Team, said Monday "it's hard to say how far the conference will be able to go" because the U.S. Congress has not agreed on a climate bill, and industrialized nations have not agreed on targets to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions or funding to help developing countries limit their discharges.
 
   The more immediate reason is probably the economy. Nobody is willing to cough up a bunch of money on something they simply can't afford at this point; forgetting the fact that public opinion has turned on the whole global warming debate, at least here anyway.
 
 
 
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Senator Thune Keep'n The Fire Hot

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:01:12 AM
   Thought this was funny. Lord Stern, a leading global warming nutter in Britain, wants everybody to become vegen's.
Sen. Thune (R) thinks that is stupid.

What got him going were Stern's comments that "meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." Stern, an economist, told the Times of London that cows and pigs are a significant source of greenhouse gases.

Thune has seen this before, of course, and this year was able to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from pushing a "cow tax," where producers are taxed for "naturally occurring livestock emissions."

Said Thune: "Fortunately, we've been grilling the cow tax efforts here in D.C. but need to keep the fire on these extremist views from across the pond."
 
   I had a steak sandwich for lunch yesterday. To think I couldn't have that anymore? That is akin to blasphemy!
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