EU Climate Agreement All Smoke and Mirrors

by Iain Murray on December 15, 2008 · 5 comments

in Environment, Global Warming, International, Politics as Usual

So if the EU has just put together an agreement to reduce emissions by 20% by 2020, why are the climate alarmist groups calling it “a dark day” and “an embarrassment”?

Well, the answer is because the actual agreement is for a 4% reduction (also explained in the last link, but Roger Pielke Jr does it better). And that may be null and void if a global agreement doesn’t emerge at Copenhagen next year, which it probably won’t.

Note also that the “rich” countries of the EU-15 have actually failed to make any dent in their emissions since the early 90s and that the former Eastern bloc countries have also not really lost much ground since 2000 either. Of course, they have a recession that will reduce emissions over the next couple of years, and if they’re silly enough to adopt the policies that will turn it into a Great Depression, they might just hit their targets. There will be singing and dancing among the ruins, I am sure, when that takes place.

Tagged as: climate agreement, copenhagen, emissions, global agreement, great depression, roger pielke jr

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VK December 15, 2008 at 2:04 pm: But I thought we had reached the "point of no return?" They don't seem too worried…
Nancyf December 16, 2008 at 10:01 am: Makes little difference doesn't it? Criminals don't obey the law anyway and they've stripped the enforcement agencies of funds and workers. As you can see it's not been working out well for those who don't want to be poisoned…
David / PlanetThough December 17, 2008 at 11:49 pm: The fools continue to fiddle while the planet slowly burns.Each civilization in the past that collapsed and died off did so because of a combination of isolation and ignoring of vital signs from nature around them. Well, our planet is itself surely isolated in that we get no help and supplies from outside. And now, when we need intelligent and strong action, we are ignoring the accelerating loss of species, the heating of the globe, the melting of the ice. Why? Because it challenges the comfortable way of life that we in the rich parts of the world have developed. The danger is real, and so is the inaction.