Someone Still Cares About the Environment

The EU is trying to get serious on pollution and has got some serious hate for us. In reaction to a new pact signed by the United States, Australia, China, India, South Korea and Japan, the EU is pushing for "legally binding global restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions." The pact signed by the US and fellow free polluters calls for member countries to "set goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions individually, with no enforcement mechanism."

If you recall, "both the US and Australia have refused to ratify [the Kyoto treaty], which came into effect earlier this year - partly, they say, because big developing countries like India and China escape emissions limits." This type of logic sounds straight retarded but such is the theme of the current administration.

The signatories argue it complements, rather than weakens, the 1997 Kyoto agreement, which imposes targets on industrialised countries to cut their emissions.
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But environmental groups argue that the new agreement undermines the Kyoto Protocol, and will make the process of agreeing a successor treaty more difficult. The Geneva-based Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said: "A deal on climate change that doesn't limit pollution is the same as a peace plan that allows guns to be fired."
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[The European Commission's environment spokeswoman Barbara Helferrich said] "If it is simply technology and clean coal, it is no substitute for agreements like the Kyoto Protocol and we do not expect it to have a real impact on climate change."

Here's a link to the Australian side of the news. Ok, did any of these people watch The Day After Tomorrow? C'mon!