Chinese Reject Emissions Targets — The Guardian. China’s climate plan made headlines but seems little different from Bush’s do-nothing plans.
Dutch Plan Extra Tax for Gas-Guzzling Cars – Reuters. I’m not sure this will do much. “The rule would add an additional 1,600 to 1,800 euros in taxes for BMW’s X5 3.0si.” Not a lot of money for a BMW buyer.
Dry Winter Setting Off Canada Forest Fires – Reuters. “A winter of unusually little snow has brought five times the normal level of forest fires to parts of Central Canada,” the article begins. But no mention that this is just what you would expect from global warming, an all-too-common omission by the media (here and here, for instance).
Australia to launch carbon trading scheme by 2012 – Reuters. Seems like good news, but then you read, Prime Minister John Howard “said an ‘aspirational’ target for reducing carbon emissions would be set in 2008 once the economic costs had been fully studied.” I’m afraid “aspirational” is Bush-speak for “purely symbolic.”
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