- Scott Miller
Americans are continually barraged with attacks on our so-called contribution to global warming, and the perception that we are the biggest polluter of the world community. While we can count on the blame-America-firsters in the Democrat party and our socialist media to take cheap shots at America, we are also told that we are hated overseas because we have not signed onto the so-called Kyoto global warming agreement.
Well, thanks to some great reporting at The American Thinker, it seems that the vast majority of the countries that have signed Kyoto treaties have an “do as I say, not as I do” attitude. This from The American Thinker:
One would think that countries that committed to the Kyoto treaty are doing a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would also think that the United States, the only country that does not even intend to ratify, keeps on emitting carbon dioxide at growth levels much higher than those who signed.And one would be wrong.
The Kyoto treaty was agreed upon in late 1997 and countries started signing and ratifying it in 1998. A list of countries and their carbon dioxide emissions due to consumption of fossil fuels is available from the U.S. government. If we look at that data and compare 2004 (latest year for which data is available) to 1997 (last year before the Kyoto treaty was signed), we find the following.
- Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
- Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
- Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
- Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.
In fact, emissions from the U.S. grew slower than those of over 75% of the countries that signed Kyoto. Below are the growth rates of carbon dioxide emissions, from 1997 to 2004, for a few selected countries, all Kyoto signers. (Remember, the comparative number for the U.S. is 6.6%.)
- Maldives, 252%.
- Sudan, 142%.
- China, 55%
- Luxembourg, 43%
- Iran, 39%
- Iceland, 29%.
- Norway, 24%.
- Russia, 16%.
- Italy, 16%.
- Finland, 15%.
- Mexico, 11%.
- Japan, 11%.
- Canada, 8.8%.
World and U.S. opinion seems to revolve around who signed Kyoto rather than actual carbon dioxide emissions. Once again, stated intent trumps actual results. Can even the global warming believers possibly believe this treaty has anything to do with it?
Pretty devastating stuff if you’re a phony environmentalist… I don’t want to hear another freakin’ peep out of another socialist world leader lecturing America on our carbon emissions. The real agenda behind this phony global warming issue is jealousy of America’s wealth and power. These anti-capitalists want America to handcuff herself economically, turn over control of our lives to government by allowing them to tell us how big of a car we can drive, how big of a house we can live in, even how many squares of TP we can use in any one sitting. I wonder when we’ll see this information reported on a NBC nightly news special?
Hat tip to Mark Levin on the story.
