Re: More info on the "global warming" scam

Hank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 1 Dec 2003 21:34:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Megalithic)
> enlightened me with:
> 
> >Sure it sucks that China, Brazil, Mexico, and the rest would be
> >allowed to not abide by the Kyoto Protocol, but so fuckin' what? They
> >don't now, and it's the industrialized nations that produce the
> >majority of greenhouse gases in the first place. The US accounts for
> >around a quarter of global emissions, so boo hoo if we have to tighten
> >our belts and be accountable, and be responsible.
> >
> 
>       This would be no problem if the rules were not designed to
> specifically handicap one country -- the US.  The fact is that
> sacrificing 25% of our economy to get a 1/2 degree temperature shift
> by 2050 is not a great idea.  Especially when the entire Kyoto scam
> was rigged by Europeans.
>       Let's look at the baseline year they picked:  1990.  How
> convenient.   The last year of East German existence.  All Germany had
> to do was close about 5 Soviet-era factories that were losing money
> anyway and they met their Kyoto number.   No impact on their economy
> at all.
>       Let's look at France.   They have met their number by
> switching almost exclusively to nuclear power.  Remember nuclear
> power?   For 20 years that was the bug-a-boo in the American
> environmental movement.  So now they are going to insist we start them
> all up again and add even more?
>       As for the rest of Europe ... the ones behind this, remember
> ... 2/3rds of them aren't making their Kyoto number anyway.  So why
> sign it?   America doesn't do things that way ... if we sign
> something, it sticks.    And Europe isn't making its cream-puff 15%
> reduction but you expect the US to tank its economy by making the
> 35-50% reductions Europe insisted we should make.  All so that China
> and Mexico can belch as much into the atmosphere as they like -- two
> countries exempted because they refused to sign it anyway.
>       Kyoto is exclusively and specifically a ploy to give Europe a
> way to compete in the global marketplace. 

So is ISO certification (some of it good, a lot of it largely bs) of
companies, and most people in manufacturing know that. If not, then
they should, not that we can do anything about it at this point.