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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AuBug who wrote (7251)	9/4/2004 2:03:23 AM
From: jficquette	Respond to of 27181

Bush rather make fun of Kerry than raise money. John

To: AuBug who wrote (7251)	9/4/2004 3:25:27 PM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27181

No your facts are incorrect, you're now no more than a democratic hack: >>In 1997, the Senate rejected the principles of the Kyoto climate-change treaty by a 95-to-0 margin. In that sense, surely, Thursday's vote was an improvement, especially considering that six Republicans defied their leadership, and the White House, to vote for the bill. << There was a vote in 2003 on emissions, not on the Kyoto Accord. Again it went down in defeat.: >>On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted 55-to-43 against a bill that would have restricted the emission of carbon dioxide and other gases believed to trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. Although it was the first Senate vote on such a bill, the Senate has previously rejected curbs on greenhouse gases — with a vengeance. << Once again it didn't get to the Presidents desk. You're just exposing yourself more as an environmental wacko. Besides the KYOTO should die a quick death, it's just plain bad language and bad for the US: ########### The Kyoto Protocol requires that the United States reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions by a remarkable 43% for the 2008-2012 average, compared to where they would have been if we continue on the trajectory established in the last two decades. The economic costs are enormous, they are but not the subject of this hearing. What are the climate benefits? Wigley (1998) recently calculated the "saved" warming, under the assumptions noted above, that would accrue if every nation met its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. According to him, the earth’s temperature in 2050 will be 0.07°C lower as a result. My own calculations produced a similar answer. Wigley is a Senior Scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. 0.07°C is an amount so small that it cannot be reliably measured by ground-based thermometers. If one assumes the more likely scenario that warming to the year 2100 will be approximately half of the IPCC estimate, the saved warming drops to 0.04°C over the next fifty years. This is no benefit at an enormous cost. ***** In conclusion, the observed data on climate and recent emissions trends clearly indicate that the concept of "dangerous" interference in the climate system is outmoded within any reasonable horizon. This makes the Kyoto Protocol a useless appendage to an irrelevant treaty. It is time to reconsider the Framework Convention.