US Fails to Kill Kyoto Process

Published on Sunday, December 19, 2004 by the lndependent/UK US Fails in Bid to Kill Off Kyoto Process by Geoffrey Lean

Governments from around the world yesterday narrowly succeeded in keeping the international bid to combat catastrophic global warming alive, in the face of determined attempts by the re-elected Bush administration to kill it off.

Top negotiators described the effort - at a special UN conference in Buenos Aires - as like hanging on to a cliff face by their 'fingernails', as the United States and oil-producing countries threw rock after rock to try to dislodge them.

More than 36 hours after the conference was supposed to have ended - following two all-night negotiating sessions, and while workmen were physically dismantling the facilities around them - delegates finally agreed on a series of compromises that avoided complete breakdown and kept some life in the negotiations...

This transformed the Buenos Aires conference, which was expected to be a routine and relatively uncontroversial meeting, the last before negotiations on the follow-up to Kyoto begin in earnest next November. Its chairman, Raul Estrada-Oyuela, an Argentinian diplomat who played a central role in the negotiation of the protocol seven years ago, proposed an apparently inoffensive series of informal meetings over next year to prepare the ground for the talks.

But this was vigorously opposed by the US, which insisted there could only be one informal meeting, and that no ideas for the future could be discussed at it. The Americans also objected to mentions of the need to tackle global warming as opposed to adapting to it, and backed an extraordinary demand from Saudi Arabia that oil-producing states should receive billions of dollars in compensation from the rest of the world if they burned less oil...

above is an excerpt only - the whole report is here: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1219-02.htm

The USA has never ever intended to kill off the Kyoto Protocol.

The fools of this world need something to entertain them so they won't go to killing each other as they did during most of the last century. Kyoto is certainly a more benign form of entertainment for their tiny minds.

The USA just doesn't need it like France, Germany, Japan, etc do. We are busy dealing with REAL threats to mankind, like TERRORISTS!

WDA

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Yes, creating more of them in the Middle East.

That is the essential philosophy of the fascists, who consider that they can 'class' people by whether they agree with the fascist 'worldview' or not. The Jews were the 'target' last time. Guess there had to be a new target selected for a new reich.

Yes, you Weird Demented Assholes generally are, since they generally have no ability to understand the world apart from the illusion they make for

He's still confusing Iraq and terrorists. Even the white house gave up on that lie months ago, yet many of the pavlovian ignorant goosesteppers remain confused.

Wait for a few hundred more of his silly posts and you will conclude that he does nothing that even resembles thought or reason.

And yes, that is what he was told to do, so he is going to promote this 'viewpoint' regardless of any reality check. That is the core fundamental logic behind fascists. They are the uneducated, who have certain 'viewpoints' that the educated laugh at, and who now have the POWER to promote the hell out of their claims regardless of the facts, thus feeling that they are now 'dominant' and legitimate. Fact is that reality will catch up with them after a short period of chaos.

It only looks like confusion. To be confused, you have to have some faulty reasoning that leads you to a conclusion. One characteristic of people like James and WDA is that here is no 'reasoning' here. It is more a shared mutually supported delusion than any confusion.