The U.S. and Australia:
By on Nov 15th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
The U.S. and Australia:
The “Bonnie and Clyde” of the global climate crisis, according to Al Gore. The two are the only major industrialized countries to reject the Kyoto Protocol, which “requires 35 industrialized countries to reduce those emissions by 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.” More HERE.
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November 15th, 2006 at 9:30 pmSorry but Australia is a joke. Rupert Murdoch gave a speech the other day in Aus saying that Australians should not vilify the US because of Iraq or the Bush Admin because these things will pass….
I don’t know who the hell he was talking to or about, because there is about as much chance of Australia not doing what the US tells it to, on any matter at all, now or in the future, as there is of the Iranian President converting to Judaism.
If Blair is Bush’s poodle, John Howard [or insert any Australian leader here, now or in the future] is Bush’s hamster.
Get real.
November 15th, 2006 at 9:49 pma bit off-topic, but, there is good news on the global war on terror derviing from the white house to share. it appears that bush, the war-criminal, personally signed-off on the torturing or prisoners at cia black sites.
thanks aclu for helping fight the only war that matters!!
here is a link.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:00 pmOJ needs to go live in Australia, he’s an outrage.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:02 pmWho cares about the environment as long as there is enough beer in the fridge or gas in the tank?
November 15th, 2006 at 10:04 pmJust wait and see…
FT,
ironically enough, oj is being pimped by mr murdoch whose fox network will be showing the oj snuff film just in time for christmas…oh, and the publisher of the book is also a subsidiary of a murdoch-owned enterprise!
so, oj could get paid off with a little spot in australia—there are plenty of blonde women there for oj to kill and for oj to then right books and movies for the fox empire! it seems to be a win-win….
November 15th, 2006 at 10:07 pmJames Risser,
That ACLU FOIA story is very informative. It’s interesting that now since the chimp blabbed about the sites, now the CIA admits the papers exist.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:09 pmThat is ironic about OJ, he still sucks.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:10 pmWhen I was in Australia, there were signs all over the place about things being done to prevent pollution and for recycling… Maybe that was just in the touristic place I was in. Perhaps Australians could clear this up?
November 15th, 2006 at 10:17 pmfT,
i am glad you appreciate the aclu/cia story… it is indeed great news and is another piece of evidence to use at his war-crimes trial… he is a horrible shit-stain on the constitution, a mass murdering, lying, filthy, genocidal, wretched bastard, and these daily drops of information proving his war-crimes are the only way we can win the global war on his terrorism!!
November 15th, 2006 at 10:19 pmSo now Rupert Murdoch has paid the terrorists 2 million dollars in ransom money and a murderer 3.5 million to write a book and do interviews. Who’s next? Is he going to buy that Freeper some stamps to mail more terrorizing letters?
November 15th, 2006 at 10:21 pmWhy are we wasting time talking about this? OJ is back in the news. Which is more important, global warming or OJ? C’mon… watch the news! Find out what is going on with OJ! Geesh!
Peace! Please?
November 15th, 2006 at 10:41 pmglobal warming is more important than oj simpson. quite true. no one is stopping anyone from discussing global warming. but, when you have a story about australia, and two of the top most powerful australians are essentially members of the bush crime family, it is natural that most people are talking about murdoch.
it so happens murdoch made oj a story today by making a deal with the murderer to print his book at harper collins and show his snuff film on fox just in time for the christmas holidays.
if you expect people to ignore the star cross’d combination of australia, murdoch, fox, murder, and oj, then i think you may be thinking TOO MUCH about global warming… but, i feel your pain.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:51 pmForTruth,
Zooey wants me to tell you she can’t post at the moment. She’s caught in a sort of spam filter or something.
November 15th, 2006 at 11:12 pmThanks Yeti_Steve.
November 15th, 2006 at 11:20 pmGore 2008? Anyone?
November 15th, 2006 at 11:25 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
OK TP -
If you need to get some advertisors so you can keep this site running better, I will understand.
November 15th, 2006 at 11:32 pmBoy are you people something. Is this your religion or something. Worried about global warming now and the ice age 15 years ago. Do you all think the world just started with you? As far as torturing the war criminals, I say go for it. They have it pretty good at club gitmo.Maybe you libs would take these guys in.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:04 amstupid test
November 16th, 2006 at 12:27 amHeh, stupid test worked.
Goodnight, stupid TP.
Oh, um David? Get laid, ok?
November 16th, 2006 at 12:28 amActually China and India have also not do antyhing with Kyoto. The USA could cut our emissions in half and it would be meaningless since China and India are already poised to go right past the USA. I say we join Kyoto when China and INdia does.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:40 amWhat about Canada ?
November 16th, 2006 at 12:46 amAnd let us not forget…
LOS ANGELES — Special effects explosions, idling vehicles, teams of workers building monumental sets — all of it contributes to Hollywood’s newly discovered role as an air polluter, a university study has found.
The film and television industry and associated activities make a larger contribution to air pollution in the five-county Los Angeles region than almost all five other sectors researched, according to a two-year study released Tuesday by the University of California, Los Angeles.
Although Hollywood seems environmentally conscious thanks to celebrities who lend their names to various causes, the industry created more pollution than individually produced by aerospace manufacturing, apparel, hotels and semiconductor manufacturing, the study found.
Only petroleum manufacturing belched more emissions.
“People talk of ‘the industry,’ but we don’t think of them as an industry,” said Mary Nichols, who heads the school’s Institute of the Environment, which released what researchers called a “snapshot” of industry pollution. “We think of the creative side, the movie, the people, the actors — we don’t think of what it takes to produce the product.”
Read entire article…
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Perhaps the Hollywood ‘global warming’ preachers should reserve a pew up front with those of us in the congregation.
November 16th, 2006 at 1:57 amThe two are the only major industrialized countries to reject the Kyoto Protocol,
November 16th, 2006 at 5:50 amOf course Australia follows the USA in this policy also
Our Sycophant Prime Minister is a follower of your Dear Leader.
http://www.smh.com.au/ news/ world/ china-criticises-australia-over-greenhouse-gases/ 2006/ 11/ 16/ 1163266709377.html
In a dialogue chaired by Australian Greenhouse Office director Howard Bamsey, a Chinese delegate reacted to Environment Minister Ian Campbell’s assertion that China would emit more greenhouse gases than any other country by 2010.
Gao Guangsheng pointed out that China’s population is 65 times the size of Australia’s, according to Greenpeace Australia energy campaigner Catherine Fitzpatrick who observed the talks.
If Australia’s population was 1.3 billion, its total emissions would be significantly higher, he said, according to Fitzpatrick.
And then this, so a least China has a plan
By 2010, China was aiming to use 20 per cent less energy per unit of GDP than it consumed last year, he said.
November 16th, 2006 at 6:49 amThere’s plenty of news on Australian prime minister John Howard’s pathetic attempts to get a chair at the big boys table on global warming over at ‘The Orstrahyun’ blog, if you’re interested :
The Orstrahyun
http://www.theorstrahyun.blogspot.com
Howard only changed his stance on global warming once he got the okay from Rupert Murdoch, the latest ‘convert’.
Interesting theories about carbon trading credits being a kind of global currency.
Any thoughts on that?
November 16th, 2006 at 9:40 amYes our PM is an idiot.
It only took Bush fires, Hailstorms, Snow and Drought all within the same state within the same day. To finally get an admittance of gobel warming.
Now hes busy ushing money into research because its reaching a cisis point.
November 16th, 2006 at 5:46 pmThank you Mr. Gore, for speaking truth to power.
November 16th, 2006 at 6:48 pm[…] Australia, the only major industrialized country other than the U.S. to reject the Kyoto Protocol, is facing its worst drought in 1000 years. As ClimateProgress notes, global warming “has also taken its toll on the economy, significantly slowing Australia’s growth since so much of the country’s GDP relies on agriculture.” 4:23 pm | Comment (0) […]
December 19th, 2006 at 4:23 pm