Suicide Pact!
Kerry, urgently, re warmal policy delays! AFP:
“Climate change is not governed by a recession, it’s governed by scientific facts about what’s happening to Earth. And you either accept the realities of the science or you don’t,” said Democratic Senator John Kerry.
He spoke after some of his colleagues argued that the United States should not impose a cap-and-trade system for so-called greenhouse gases blamed for global warming because it amounts to a painful tax during a deep downturn.
“You don’t enter a mutual suicide pact because the economy is having a hard time right now,” Kerry said after meeting with UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon seven months before global climate change talks in Denmark’s capital.
Better get a good coat, or it’ll be suicide by freezing, John. Check the scientific facts! Meanwhile, different, probably unrelated, via Blair. Australian bailout payments seek to stimulate the dead.
Helpful warming update via Ace: Game over, dude! California coast to see five-foot sea level rise over the next century! Unfortunately, due to coastal elevations, this will have little effect on key centers of Californian civilization, just raise property values a couple blocks in from some beaches.
UK Telegraph with encouraging news: top UN warmalist says a warmal deal without the US is a waste of time, and Obama can’t cut emissions to Euro satisfaction without risking “revolution.”
Boston Globe: Bad economy good for environment! Report allows thi smay not be cause for celebration, quotes wet blanket:
”What does this say about the state of the economy?” said Robert Rio, senior vice president of Associated Industries of Massachusetts “We could get 100 percent below the cap if we shut every business and moved them out of state.”
Globe worries over delays to ”important” cap-and-trade, citing “urgency of the science … need to be ambitious.”
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:25 am on Thursday, March 12, 2009
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