((apologies for the cynecism in this post..))


ok so now the poop is really flowing down the pipe …and its getting thicker by the second. Since last I posted (all but a few hours ago) there’s now 199 related articles about this USA/AUS climate dealio… some things I’ve noticed:

ok right off the bat—noticed that the name of this accord is “Beyond Kyoto” and the press guppies are gobbling it up! Hmmm….. sounds familiar doesn’t it? Doesn’t it sound like British Petroleum’s switch a couple of years back? When they changed into:

Beyond Petroleum! Now don’t get me wrong, Sir John Browne is my kind of guy—his company has been morphing nicely into an energy company instead of a dirty oil co, and he was the only oil CEO with the cojones to kick up a storm with all the other oil boys and tell them flatly that the planet doesn’t fall for their think tanks, misinformation and PR flak…

The thing is that these new Climate Solvers (1 part john wayne 1 part yahoo serious) taking the name from the BP brand make me think of crib notes and buying mid-term essays …wonder if they’re just going to keep up with the lazy student lethargy and just swipe the logo too: waddaya think?

Me I think they ought to take it one step further…. I mean since this is USAAUS saving the day, the two of them ought to take some credit, I suggest they go for more boldness
in fact, that really would give the right message to the world,

I mean, do you even have to ask how these guys feel about joint implementation and carbon credits?

…actually speaking of joint implementation, there is some interesting glimmer of hope where China and India are getting in on it with USAAUS and getting into the possibilities of technology transfers.. they’ll offset the lethargic non activity in the “developed” by putting up clean technologies in the “underdevelopped”
(god, I hate those words). So there is a glimmer of hope.

But wait a minute.. JI, Technology Transfers, and Carbon Credits was what Kyoto was all about (?) So even if t he 1990 levels was the baby step goal, but the process is sposta work (so long as there’s no climate regime change) what was the big problem in the first place??