posted December 19, 2004 01:27 PM            

In fact, the real purpose of the Kyoto Treaty is to shut down American business while leaving intact the manufacturing processes of third world manufacturing and of course China, which are exempt from the provisions of the treaty.

Global warming is a fact but as it's causes are spun off the lying lips of the left, it's a fraud.

When someone can tell me why the earth was warmer in 1000-1300 AD, and what those industrialized peoples , before the advent of the industrial revolution, were doing to cause an over abundance of CO2 in the atmosphere, when someone can tell me what those bronze age peoples were doing 25,000 years ago to cause the earth to suddenly warm up and make the Ice Age retreat into a dim memory, when someone can tell me why in the far dim past, there were no ice sheets at the poles of the earth, as the earth warmed and cooled in regular cycles, then, we'll talk about it.

Of course, that would take some facts from the left and those are in very short supply there. Notice, now they're not arguing facts but psychological reasons for the Kyoto Treaty.

The sun is emitting more radiation now, i.e., it's hotter and that's been a reoccurring cycle, heating then cooling, through the history of the sun as recorded in the geological record.

Greens Admit Kyoto Protocol Will Not Affect 'Global Warming'
Marc Morano, CNSNews.com
Friday, Dec. 17, 2004
More: What Kyoto Protocol would accomplish: ship even more jobs to China and India
'Global warming' refuted at U.N. conference

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – After a relentless attack on the United States for opposing the Kyoto Protocol, environmental groups concede the international treaty will have no impact on what they believe to be impending catastrophic global warming.

Despite the fact that green groups at the U.N. climate conference called President Bush "immoral" and "illegitimate" for not supporting the Kyoto Protocol (rejected in the U.S. Senate 95-0), the groups themselves concede the Protocol will have only "symbolic" effect on climate because they believe it is too weak. Kyoto is an international treaty that seeks to limit greenhouse gases of the developed countries by 2012.

'Hopeless'

"I think that everybody agrees that Kyoto is really, really hopeless in terms of delivering what the planet needs," Peter Roderick of Friends of the Earth International told CNSNews.com.

"It's tiny. It's tiny, tiny. It's tiny," Roderick said. "It is woefully inadequate, woefully. We need huge cuts to protect the planet from climate change."

But just because Kyoto might end up having little or no impact on the climate, that did not stop Roderick from blasting President Bush for the White House's environmental policies.

Roderick cited "deep psychological reasons" as to why the Bush administration opposed the Protocol.

Bush "comes across as not caring," Roderick said. "I am sure he does care in his own life personally about many things, [but] I think also that he is scared, he is fearful, he is fearful about wanting to continue in power.

"Somewhere in their hearts [the Bush administration doesn't] seem to care about the future of the planet, and I think that is bad news for the world," Roderick added. "It is obviously deep psychological reasons, as to why individuals would feel that way ... [Bush] seems to have a vision of the world which is not recognized by millions and millions of people around the world."

Not Even Kerry Voted for It

(He did not mention that not one Democrat in the U.S. Senate voted for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.)

Though Roderick dismisses the potential impact of the Kyoto Protocol, he believes the treaty is vital for a reason that has nothing to do with climate change.

It "is important more in the political message and the inspiration it is giving people around the world. People can say: 'Yeah, our politicians do care - they are not just interested in power and their own greed and in their own money. They do care about the future of the planet,'" Roderick explained.

"How inspiring it would be for the leaders to get together and say, 'Yeah, we are going to do this; we are all in this together.' That's, I think, the sort of symbolic importance of Kyoto, not the the sort of nitty-gritty commas and dots in the text," he added.

'Huge, Huge Cuts'

Roderick believes a global climate emergency can be averted only by a greenhouse-gas-limiting treaty of massive proportions. "We are talking basically of huge, huge cuts," said Roderick.

The most positive description of the Kyoto Protocol centers on it fostering the spirit of cooperation in the international community, according to Roderick.

"The best thing that can be said for it is it's the first time that, with the exception unfortunately of the United States, that the international community has said, 'We need to get together on this, and we need international action.' That's the really important thing of Kyoto," Roderick said.

Threat of More Draconian Regulations

Greenpeace International agreed that the Kyoto Protocol should be only an entry point for controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Jessica Coven, a spokeswoman for the environmental group, told CNSNews.com that "Kyoto is our first start, and we need increasing emissions cuts.

"We need all types of actions, but Kyoto is the important architecture for how we are going to move forward to curb the problem," Coven said.

"Global warming, as its name suggests, is a global problem, and we need an international framework like Kyoto," she added. And despite the Protocol's limited impact, Coven said Bush's decision not to support the treaty was "immoral."

Inuit Circumpolar Conference, the Arctic group that announced their intention this week to seek a ruling from Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the United States, "for causing global warming and its devastating impacts," also denigrated the global warming treaty.

"The Kyoto Protocol, although again achieved with great difficulty, doesn't even go near to what has to get done. It is not anywhere near to what we need in the Arctic," said Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chairwoman of Inuit Circumpolar Conference.