Kyoto! Kyoto!
There's some serious partying goin' down in Lookout, Buenos Aires (as reported in the Grey Old Lady):
...delegates from more than 190 countries have gathered here both to celebrate the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol...
however,
..Many delegates and experts concede that the pact, negotiated in 1997, is deeply flawed and that years of delays in finishing its rulebook mean that many adherents may have trouble meeting their targets for emissions cuts...
Oh really? So just the ridiculous bureaucracy spawned by the treaty has made it impossible to enforce? We also learn that:
...Its impact will also be limited because it exempts developing countries, including fast-industrializing giants like China and India, from emissions restrictions, and lacks the support of the United States, the world's dominant source of the heat-trapping gases...
Well, we've all heard about the fact that the US didn't sign Kyoto. That doesn't mean that we won't restrict our greenhouse gas (GG) production; in fact US GG production has stayed relatively flat for the last few years. But I wonder how many are aware that India and China can go and burn hydrocarbons as if it were ...going out of style. We know that the West could go and work wonders in GG production, and it won't amount to a whit if China and India grow their emissions to nightmare quantities.
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