Feted and Hated, Kyoto Enters Into Force

[Seeing Red]

abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=503567

Remember this? Chalk one more arrogant, destructive policy for Mr. Bush and his cabal ...

[Piperay]

1. It's disgraceful that

the United States under the chimp regime wouldn't sign, we are like a rogue nation.

[Forever Free]

2. Well well look who's here

Finally posting your own threads huh Seeing Red?

[cal04]

3. Kyoto Global Warming Pact Takes Effect

The Kyoto global warming pact went into force Wednesday, seven years after it was negotiated, imposing limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases scientists blame for rising world temperatures, melting glaciers and rising oceans.

The landmark agreement, negotiated in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto in 1997 and ratified by 140 nations, took effect at midnight. It targets carbon dioxide and five other gases that can trap heat in the atmosphere, and are believed to be behind rising global temperatures that many scientists say are disrupting weather patterns.

The United States, the world's largest emitter of such gases, has refused to ratify the agreement, saying it would harm the economy and is flawed by the lack of restrictions on emissions by emerging economies China and India.

``We have been calling on the United States to join. But the country that is the world's biggest emitter has not joined yet, and that is regrettable,'' Japan's top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda, told reporters. Australia, the only other developed nation not to join, defended that decision, with Environment Minister Ian Campbell saying the country was nonetheless on track to cut emissions by 30 percent.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4803944,00.html

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4. If Japan can sign on, so can we

Nations with the small amount of resources available to themselves and a high population density like Japan are going to take a hit under the Kyoto protocol. We can follow suit and do the same thing.

[HamiltonHabs32]

5. Kyoto Now

Kyoto now!
Bad Religion

Its a matter of prescience -no, not the science fiction kind
Its all about ignorance, and greed, and miracles for the blind
The media parading, disjointed politics
Founded on petrochemical plunder, and were its hostages
If you stand to reason youre in the game
The rules might be elusive but our pieces are the same
And you know if one goes down we all go down as well
The balance is precarious as anyone can tell
This worlds going to hell
Dont allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We cant do nothing and think someone else will make it right
You might not think it matters now but what if you are wrong
You might not think theres any wisdom in a farked up punk rock song
But the way it is cannot persist for long
A brutal sun is rising on our sick horizon
Its in the way we live our lives
Exactly like the double edge of a cold familiar knife
And supremacy weighs heavy on the day
Its never really what you own but what you threw away
And how much did you pay?
Dont allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We cant do nothing and think someone else will make it right
In your dreams you saw a steady state a bounty for eternity
Silent screams
But now the wisdom that sustains us is in full retreat
Watch out!
Dont allow this mythologic hopeful monster isnt worth the risk
Kyoto now!
We cant have vision for the future if it cant be fixed
Alien
We need a fresh and new religion to run our lives
Hand in hand
The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise
Oh, kyoto now!

[BRLIB]

6. Only the Garbage US media could come up with such a

title "Feted and Hated, Kyoto Enters Into Force".

[leftchick]

7. Feted and Hated, Kyoto Global Warming Pact Starts

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=7647613

OSLO (Reuters) - A world plan to fight global warming went into force on Wednesday, feted by its backers as a lifeline for the planet amid sniping at the United States for staying out.

After years of delays, the U.N. Kyoto Protocol on curbing human emissions of heat-trapping gases blamed for disrupting the climate took effect at midnight with muted celebrations of a deal Washington dismisses as an economic straitjacket.

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"Climate change is a global problem. It requires a concerted global response," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in remarks to be aired at a ceremony in the Japanese city of Kyoto where the pact was signed in 1997.

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"141 countries have not allowed this process to be blocked by the unilateral power play of one country," German Environment Minister Juergen Trittin said, outlining plans for even bigger German cuts beyond 2012.



A South Korean activist dressed as U.S. President George W. Bush participates in a rally criticizing the U.S. withdrawal of support for the Kyoto Protocol in Seoul February 16, 2005. After years of delays, a world plan to fight global warming went into force on Wednesday, feted by its backers as a lifeline for the planet but rejected as an economic straitjacket by the United States and Australia. Photo by You Sung-Ho/Reuters