In fact, while it's a start the Kyoto Protocol doesn't go nearly far enough...
The chairman of the United Nations-associated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. R. Pachauri, says that the five percent greenhouse gas emmission reductions the Kyoto Protocol mandates falls way too short--we need 50 to 70 percent reductions of CURRENT LEVELS, yet human emissions of these gases are expected to quadruple over the next hundred years!!!!!!!

Actually the climatologists are the primary professional laggards in this scenario.
At the same time you were launching your investigations last year on the corporations I was asking the pertinent questions to several NOAA officials and professionals on the very subjects that you are now addressing. Namely the Thermohaline connection to climate change.

The real dangers here cannot now be de-emphasized as has been the official position with the ‘general’ scientific community for decades. That is of course until Hansen had the guts to come out of the scientific closet.

It appears that the complex study of Earth’s climate has already been compromised decades ago by corporate malfeasance although this cannot as yet be thoroughly proven, other than by personal experience. I am now convinced that further investigations will vindicate my assertions knowing their MO as I do. Someone must tell the truth here. Evolution has nothing to do with it.

Like so many other things this commercial world exploits, multinationals will conger a way to make a profit from the coming ecological destructions and disasters regardless of the personal consequences either to them or their constituents. Look at the end result of New Orleans? More casinos, more crime, more violence, more broken promises. All geared toward somebody’s bottom line. It is truly the hidden agenda of multinationals that already control most government agendas in the so-called free world. That is why the global economy exists is it not?

Just as in medicine there is always the announcement of some advance in treatments or drugs that is going to be the salvation of the proletariat only to find later it’s just some lab experiment designed to hype the potential market prior to ‘potential’ delivery.

Many corporations that employ advanced technology systematically hype a product or service before it is even workable out of the lab. Only a fool would believe anything good will come out of any decision any multinational will make to ‘save’ the environment based on this prior record.

A leopard cannot change its spots. This could have been addressed one day after the first Earth Day so many decades ago. Now we have an entire generation that has no knowledge of that event let alone it’s importance. Environmental aids has finally been discovered.

Frank Terrill
Senior Facilities Engineer
Aerospace engineering
Ret.

"I would argue that the Kyoto Protocol is nonsense, that it could lead to a lot of corruption and HAVE NO APPRECIABLE EFFECT." Marco Verweij, senior research fellow at the Max Planck Project Group, told a seminar at UCLA that he URGES ABANDONMENT OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOL IN FAVOR OF A CRASH PROGRAM TO DEVELOP CHEAP RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.
In fact, "Since 1997 the accepted goal HAS BEEN CUT TO AN EFFECTIVE 2% REDUCTION. Russia, Australia, and Canada have been making the following argument; we have these extensive forests, if we cut them this would release CO2. If we don't cut them we should get credit for that against our 5.2%."
The trading system has allocated permits to some 42 govs., such that if a country is not meeting its target it can go on the market and buy units from other govs. that have met their targets. Contrary to predictions "the Russian economy imploded, so that Russia has a very large number of permits to sell. The Japanese gov. wants to buy them. This will pump hundreds of millions of dollars into Russia, which can have a very corrupting influence. But it achieves no actual reduction of any greenhouse gases."
"There are about 8 greenhouse gases. Only the most prevalent one, CO2, can be measured with any accuracy."
Plus there are very large administrative costs, "The gov. must monitor how much each firm is polluting, estimating its prospective growth, and then measure its amount of reduction at at future date."
Regarding the joint implementation mechanism (a single country can meet its goal by financing a project in some other country), "You are telling energy companies not to cut pollution now, but wait until the World Bank or Japan comes around and let them pay to get credits toward their Kyoto requirements."
Thus far Kyoto provisions only apply to developed countries--how well will it work when extended, "It is argued that poor countries are poor because there is no rule of law and there are corrupt govs. Who is going to monitor this process in which large amounts of money change hands?"
Meanwhile, "The developing countries argue that they did not create the problem in the first place. They say we have much more important problems to deal with, such as drinking water, polluted cities. We don't contribute much to the problem. The US Senate doesn't like that argument. The Bush administartion says that China is the second biggest emmiter and that the US will not participate if the developing countries do not."
"Govs. change, as the change from Clinton to Bush, and the agreement falls apart. This does not make a reliable vehicle to solve the environment problem. A better soultion comes from the realization that climate change will only be prevented if we develop energy sources that do not cause global warming. Cheap energy producing technologies would obviate the need for treaties and parlimentary approvals ... A single technology can have a big impact, whereas in Kyoto every country in the world has to create a major bureaucracy to administer the Kyoto standards. The govs. of Japan, Germany, and the UK have very ambitious renewable energy programs, however, "IN THE US THE REPUBLICANS ARE ALLIED TO THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY THROUGH TIES TO ENERGY COMPANIES, THE DEMOCRATS THROUGH TIES TO AUTOWORKERS." According to Verweij, as other countries "break through," they will put US companies at a competitive disadvantage that will overcome the alliance of the American political parties with pro-fossil fuel producers, "Wind energy is now competitive with fossil fuel energy, In a few more years it is expected to drop by 30%, which will make it cheaper than fossil fuel energy. This can be a major source of energy in Europe, from offshore winds."
Of course, THE US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY STATES THAT THE WORLD'S WINDS COULD PROVIDE OVER 15 TIMES THE WORLDS CURRENT ENERGY DEMAND.
In other words, BUSH AND CO. ARE THE VERY DEVIL!!!!!!!!!!!