Al Gore Helps Pull The US' Monkey Wrench Out Of The World's Climate Treaty Gear Box
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 12.15.07
Courtesy of the New York Times, there's been a diplomatic breakthrough in Bali, with the US finally agreeing to future terms for re-negotiating a revised Climate Treaty (post-Kyoto), with the UN involved.
The mood here shifted after a speech Thursday by Al Gore, the former United States vice president who shared the Nobel Peace Prize this year for helping to alert the world to the danger of global warming.After declaring that the United States was "principally responsible for obstructing progress" in Bali, he urged delegates to agree to an open-ended deal that could be enhanced after Mr. Bush left office in January 2009.
"Over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere it is not now," Mr. Gore said to loud applause. "You must anticipate that."
Better to read the whole NYT story than for us to regurgitate it. For those who have been belly aching about Al Gore's flying-around-the-world C02 footprint, we have this to say: the "footprint" is well worth it, given the hand he had in turning things around in Bali.
Unfortunately, more prospective monkey wrenchers are always lurking in the background.
Image credit::Worth1000.com, Monkey Wrench
The above mentioned quote is from this NYT story
Climate Treaty Deal Seems Close, but Is Elusive
By THOMAS FULLER and ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: December 15, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/world/15climate.html?hp
Uh, that's a crescent wrench...
I'll have to think twice before I go monkey-wrenching with you guys.
I came across and interesting idea. Future news. Here is my attempt:
China shocks the world by revealing the first completely pollution free coal fired power plants are supplying energy to the Olympics. Every gram of carbon the plants produced is trapped and recycled.
In further news it is announced that you may save the environment by getting drunk. Distilled spirits manufacturers finally realized that they could trap and recycle CO2 produced by sour mash fermentation by adding just a little extra plumbing.
And finally, one of the largest sources of waste paper was eliminated as phone books the world over went on an "opt in" system. After it was realized that many people who communicate via cell phone and internet never even open a phone book, it was easy to cut the number of phone books produced in the world by 90%.