The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital Blog reports that the EU, a signer of the Kyoto Protocol, has failed to cut carbon emissions:
Early analysis of data out today from the European Commission shows that emissions rose about 1.1% last year to 1.9 billion metric tons. That’s after similar increases in 2005 and 2006.
The EU has a "cap and trade" system similar to the one being debated right now in the U.S. Senate. The bill to enact that in the U.S. may be able to survive a filibuster according to Hill Heat (links original):
At the A&WMA conference yesterday Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) spoke optimistically about getting the sixty votes necessary to forestall any filibuster against his cap-and-trade bill, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191). According to Darren Samuelson of E&E News, he told attendees that 45 senators are “heavily with us” and 15 more have a “heavy tilt in our direction, if we can do some small things.”
Meanwhile, that bastion of right-wing reporting, the BBC, has a story that says, gasp, world temps have not risen since 1998:
The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
So, the U.S. is about to enact a cap and trade system (which will damage the economy in frightening ways) just as things are starting to cool down.
And the problem is, if man-made global warming is proved to be a fraud tomorrow, there's still years a bureaucratic inertia that would have to be overcome to stop all the new regulations based on "stopping" climate change.
But maybe not in time to save your job. Or your child's future.
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