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G-8 is gr8!
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Obama is in Italy this week pushing the G-8 and developing countries to agree to a global plan to combat climate change. The goal: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2050 (80% for the major polluters). The problem: China took off because the country is rioting (very 2009, China! So Tehran of you!) and the remaining developing countries won't agree on a specific plan on how to reduce emissions. The result: No unified, detailed agreement on how to deal with our warming planet.
41 years people. It's not that fucking hard to come up with at least a few plans of attack.
What they did actually agree to: Keeping the planet from warming 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels. Whooptie-fucking-doo. I agree with 100% of men in the world that getting stabbed with a rusty knife in the nutsack is a bad idea. This is not something to be celebrated or bannered as a breakthrough. And it certainly doesn't set the stage for the UN meeting in December where a plan to replace Kyoto Protocol and write a new worldwide climate change treaty is in the works. You have to start somewhere, sure, but it seems to me that getting everyone to zip over to Italy to agree to keep from warming the planet by 2 degrees isn't that major.
And back home, shit is looking sad for a climate change bill in the Senate (despite O-man sending his big guns to the Senate Committee hearing yesterday). Sighs and sadness for Treehuggers. Remember suffering through all those goddamn windmill campaign ads last year? I guess windmills looks great in TV ads, but there isn't any political will to start building them en masse anywhere.
[/caption]Obama is in Italy this week pushing the G-8 and developing countries to agree to a global plan to combat climate change. The goal: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2050 (80% for the major polluters). The problem: China took off because the country is rioting (very 2009, China! So Tehran of you!) and the remaining developing countries won't agree on a specific plan on how to reduce emissions. The result: No unified, detailed agreement on how to deal with our warming planet.
41 years people. It's not that fucking hard to come up with at least a few plans of attack.
What they did actually agree to: Keeping the planet from warming 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels. Whooptie-fucking-doo. I agree with 100% of men in the world that getting stabbed with a rusty knife in the nutsack is a bad idea. This is not something to be celebrated or bannered as a breakthrough. And it certainly doesn't set the stage for the UN meeting in December where a plan to replace Kyoto Protocol and write a new worldwide climate change treaty is in the works. You have to start somewhere, sure, but it seems to me that getting everyone to zip over to Italy to agree to keep from warming the planet by 2 degrees isn't that major.
And back home, shit is looking sad for a climate change bill in the Senate (despite O-man sending his big guns to the Senate Committee hearing yesterday). Sighs and sadness for Treehuggers. Remember suffering through all those goddamn windmill campaign ads last year? I guess windmills looks great in TV ads, but there isn't any political will to start building them en masse anywhere.
