Comments on: The Church of Kyoto http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/after_a_number_.html Dispatches from a Small Business Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Fox http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/after_a_number_.html/comment-page-1#comment-595 Michael Fox Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:06:58 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/after_a_number_.html #comment-595 <p>The very first question one must ask of any person or organisation making claims pro or anti the Global Warming issue is: What is the main source of your financial support, and who pays it?</p> The very first question one must ask of any person or organisation making claims pro or anti the Global Warming issue is: What is the main source of your financial support, and who pays it?

]]> By: Dave at CPC http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/after_a_number_.html/comment-page-1#comment-594 Dave at CPC Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:48:55 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/after_a_number_.html #comment-594 <p>I was interested when I started reading this post, thinking that an alternative to Kyoto for reducing GHGs would be presented. When you threw out basically the entire scientific consensus behind climate change by quoting non-scientific, ideological organizations like Cato and Heartland, you lost me. </p> <p>Why do you have such a problem with the findings of IPCC? Is it like a conspiracy theory? Have you actually read the IPCC TAR? http://www.ipcc.ch . Read the Summary for Policy Makers. If you want current climate science, look at http://www.realclimate.org . Between these two, your five questions are answered, in spades. Look at my site http://climateprotectioncampaign.typepad.com/climate_myth_buster/ where I take on the skeptics. </p> <p>Regarding Kyoto, it is not a final solution, and it is not perfect. It was not intended to be. It is a start. However, it does do some important things. 1) It sets in motion a process to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that has some bite to it; 2) It incentivizes reductions by creating a carbon market; 3) It incentivizes investment in efficiency and renewable energy by developed nations in developing countries.</p> <p>I would be interested in debating you on these issues. However, if you insist on quoting ideological think tanks that do no actual scientific research and have no data to support their claims, and you reject actual scientific findings as "advocacy", that is a non-starter.</p> I was interested when I started reading this post, thinking that an alternative to Kyoto for reducing GHGs would be presented. When you threw out basically the entire scientific consensus behind climate change by quoting non-scientific, ideological organizations like Cato and Heartland, you lost me.

Why do you have such a problem with the findings of IPCC? Is it like a conspiracy theory? Have you actually read the IPCC TAR? http://www.ipcc.ch . Read the Summary for Policy Makers. If you want current climate science, look at http://www.realclimate.org . Between these two, your five questions are answered, in spades. Look at my site http://climateprotectioncampaign.typepad.com/climate_myth_buster/ where I take on the skeptics.

Regarding Kyoto, it is not a final solution, and it is not perfect. It was not intended to be. It is a start. However, it does do some important things. 1) It sets in motion a process to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that has some bite to it; 2) It incentivizes reductions by creating a carbon market; 3) It incentivizes investment in efficiency and renewable energy by developed nations in developing countries.

I would be interested in debating you on these issues. However, if you insist on quoting ideological think tanks that do no actual scientific research and have no data to support their claims, and you reject actual scientific findings as “advocacy”, that is a non-starter.

]]> By: Michael http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/after_a_number_.html/comment-page-1#comment-593 Michael Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:10:22 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/after_a_number_.html #comment-593 <p>Are you familiar with Gerry Stanhill's work on "global dimming"?<br /> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_prog_summary.shtml</p> Are you familiar with Gerry Stanhill’s work on “global dimming”?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_prog_summary.shtml

]]> By: CEO Blogger http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/after_a_number_.html/comment-page-1#comment-592 CEO Blogger Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:44:45 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/after_a_number_.html #comment-592 <p>Excellent article, an example of how there exists news analysis in the "blogosphere" as good as you can get from reading the Wall Street Journal.</p> Excellent article, an example of how there exists news analysis in the “blogosphere” as good as you can get from reading the Wall Street Journal.

]]> By: Libertarian Girl http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/after_a_number_.html/comment-page-1#comment-596 Libertarian Girl Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:23:03 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/after_a_number_.html #comment-596 <strong>Let's cool the planet using big reflectors</strong> Coyote Blog has a great post about the Kyoto Treaty. You should read it, but I woudl like to add the following two thoughts: (1) The world has a limited supply of fossil fuels. Soon the world will reach Let’s cool the planet using big reflectors

Coyote Blog has a great post about the Kyoto Treaty. You should read it, but I woudl like to add the following two thoughts: (1) The world has a limited supply of fossil fuels. Soon the world will reach

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