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September 19, 2005
Blair Pulls Plug on Kyoto
Although it was assiduously ignored by the mainstream media, something noteworthy actually occurred at the Clinton Global Initiative. James Pinkerton reports at Tech Central Station that Tony Blair — a longstanding supporter of the Kyoto Protocols — finally acknowledged the pink elephant in the living room by admitting that the Kyoto approach will not and cannot do any good.
Warning that he was going to speak with "brutal honesty," Blair confessed that his "thinking has changed in the past three or four years." Then he admitted the glaringly obvious but politically blasphemous: "No country is going to cut its growth."
That is to say, no country run by sane adults is going to fling itself into an economic abyss for the sake of politically correct ideology.
Of the countries that produce the most pollution, only the USA was to be included in Kyoto; and of course our Senate rejected this economic suicide pact 95-0. Any Kyoto-style treaty that does not include the USA, China, and India is a joke, and Blair has now publicly confessed that these countries are not likely to slit their own wrists so that latte-sipping moonbats can pretend it's preventing icebergs from melting.
The entire notion that you can prevent pollution by preventing economic growth is almost as absurd as the idea that we can meet our energy needs through conservation. Clean air is a luxury that only wealthy countries can afford. Engineering a depression in the USA might make Europeans feel good, but it is not going to reduce pollution in the long run. Poor countries pollute more, not less. Take a trip to India if you don't believe me.
So what to do about global warming, always assuming there really is such a thing?
"What countries will do is work together to develop the science and technology," said Blair. "There is no way that we are going to tackle this problem unless we develop the science and technology to do it."
Exactly. Reducing pollution, like meeting our energy needs, is a technological issue — not a problem that can be constructively addressed by deliberately crippling our economy.
Thank you Wiggins for the tip.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 19, 2005 12:26 PM
Comments
Hey, who's that transvestite pictured in your blog's right-hand column? Oh, hang on, sorry -- it's Michelle Malkin.
Posted by: Local Man at September 19, 2005 2:30 PM
LocalMan: ha ha... your funnies must take quite some mental work to come up with.
Van Helsing: Blair, the intellectual lefty, ditches Kyoto. It'll be fun to see how the Moonbats manage to crap out Guano on this one. There is hardly a rightwing nerve in Blairs politics... yet even he dumped Kyoto... somehow it's got to be Hitler Bush's fault. By the way, bet you didn't know that Kyoto is the brainchild of a Canadian... a Canadian millionaire leech named Maurice Strong who is also a genuine communist.
Posted by: Debris Trail at September 19, 2005 2:37 PM
LocalMan is a moonbat (who's actually not local, as exposed by Mike's America) who never leaves sound, coherent comments. They're usually childish quips, likely thought up by Kos kids or something.
Most red-blooded American males find Malkin to be a tad bit on the attractive side. Tells us what we need to know about LM, doesn't it? I suppose Hillary is your centerfold, LM?
Posted by: Jonathan at September 19, 2005 2:58 PM
No, most red-blooded, low brow American men might find Malkin attractive, but those of us with sophisticated tastes don't go for the hardened-hag type.
My centerfold, actually, is Evangeline Lily.
Posted by: Local Man at September 19, 2005 4:58 PM
Hag type, eh? I'm not a guy and even I think she's damn cute.
But to the subject at hand. So Tony Blair comes to his senses. I'll check Kos and see how many of them are blaming Bush for that too. Oh, and don't forget DU. Cover me. I'm going in.
Oh and VH, blogroll me again please! I've moved from journalspace in the hopes that I'll get more visitors with witty quips like LM. My new place is linked in my name.
Posted by: Oyster at September 19, 2005 5:12 PM
those of us with sophisticated tastes
You mean the French-loving haughty ignoramuses that the American people make fun of and reject at the ballot boxes? Gotcha...
Your pitiful minority, and you're welcome to your marginalized existence.
Posted by: Jonathan at September 19, 2005 7:38 PM
Hi Oyster. Welcome back to the blogroll.
Posted by: Van Helsing at September 19, 2005 8:15 PM
Is "Local Man" a synonym for "Village Idiot?"
Posted by: V the K at September 19, 2005 9:22 PM
Thanx, man.
Posted by: Von Oyster at September 19, 2005 10:06 PM
Michelle Malkin is not beautiful? A hag? I'm for betting real money these people have never touched anything that gorgeous. Smart too.
Posted by: Donald at September 20, 2005 9:17 AM
