Thursday, January 12, 2006
Shrub was right on Kyoto!
For years now, Shrub has been being blasted for his response to the Kyoto Treaty: "let's wait for the science to be better". The rest of the world (except for China) laughed at his obvious unfriendliness to the environment, and put ratified Kyoto. Now, part of the basic underpinnings of the treaty, namely the idea that "carbon sinks", aka big amounts of leafy greenery, offset industrial pollution has been shown to be wrong. It turns out that while green plants mitigate the presence of carbon dioxide, they account for 20 to 30 percent of annual methane production, and will account for more as the temperature rises. This doesn't mean that plants are bad, nor that global-warming isn't happening, but it means that Kyoto's basic ideas as to how to fix the problem are bogus. Three cheers for Shrub -- he got something right!
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