NPR and The Kyoto Protocols

Sometimes they don't proofread their own stuff.

Published on December 14, 2004 By greywar In Politics

The other day on the way in to work at around 0430L I caught an interesting little piece NPR was doing on Brazil and it's implementation of the Kyoto Environmental Protocols. The pice was about 10 minutes long with 9 miuntes and 30 seconds devoted to the lionization of Brazil for it's "progressive move towards using cane alchohol as fuels for their vehicles. Cane fules they explained produce virtually no emissions when compared to gasoline and was cheaper to boot! "Well ain't that grand?" thought I.

I was even thinking to myself for a few minutes that maybe Kyoto really had something going for it when the closed with the important bit of news in this whole ten minute spiel. In the last 30 secinds they revealed that adoption of Kyoto had led to a huge demnad for cane fields which hjad led to deforestation and land speculation on a scale never seen before. In fact the amount of forest land lost to cane fields (forests are the most important air scrubbers on the planet) far offset any reduction in emissions! Way to go enviro-tards!

9:30 spend telling us how great Kyoto is and 30 seconds on telling us the actual truth. NPR never dissapoints!

Comments (Page 1)

Dr Guy

on Dec 14, 2004

Adherance to kyoto, 2 Trillion Dollars. Cost to the Economy, 20 years of stagnation.

Kyoto being shown to be a joke, PRICELESS.

When you have to know the truth, master Carradio (NPR). Carry it with you wherever you go!

iamheather

on Dec 14, 2004

Great article, greywar and equally great comment, Dr. Guy.

Patriot_Flamethrower

on Dec 14, 2004

Enviro-tards pretty much says it all.

greywar

on Dec 14, 2004

master Carradio

chuckle

Enviro-tards pretty much says it all.

Indeed it does.

messybuu

on Dec 14, 2004

And to think that the US is the bad guy for not supporting the Kyoto Protocol and its pro-forest destruction stance.

dyingearth@gmail.com

on Dec 14, 2004

One thing I'm always fuming about is the naming of this 'protocol'. The old capital of Japan will be forever link to this piece of fantasy. Why can they do this somewhere out of the way, like Yemen. Yeah, the Yemen Protocol.

greywar

on Dec 14, 2004

Yeah, the Yemen Protocol.

chuckle

whoman69

on Dec 14, 2004

Adherance to kyoto, 2 Trillion Dollars. Cost to the Economy, 20 years of stagnation.
Kyoto being shown to be a joke, PRICELESS.
When you have to know the truth, master Carradio (NPR). Carry it with you wherever you go!

The US just throwing it out entirely instead of trying to fix it, shortsighted.

cactoblasta

on Dec 14, 2004

The deforestation is ridiculous, but forests aren't the biggest suppliers of oxygen on the planet. That title's reserved for ocean-based plants, which is why dumping toxic chemicals offshore is such a bad move (and something the Brazilian government is almost certainly doing as well). The deforestation will come back to bite the Brazilians in the arse though, because cane is nowhere near as good as forest/jungle at preventing salination, desertification and processing CO2.

greywar

on Dec 14, 2004

because cane is nowhere near as good as forest/jungle at preventing salination, desertification and processing CO2.

exactly the point

greywar

on Dec 14, 2004

shortsighted.

Commenting with no logic or supporting facts : expected.

of trying to fix it

ummm we were not the architects of this "masterpiece", our own efforts are NOT deforesting Brazil.

messybuu

on Dec 14, 2004

The US just throwing it out entirely instead of trying to fix it, shortsighted.

So, it's the US' fault that the Kyoto Protocol is being used to justify huge deforesting?

greywar

on Dec 14, 2004

So, it's the US' fault that the Kyoto Protocol is being used to justify huge deforesting?

of course it is...... if you hate the US without firing a single synapse anyway

whoman69

on Dec 14, 2004

So, it's the US' fault that the Kyoto Protocol is being used to justify huge deforesting?

of course it is...... if you hate the US without firing a single synapse anyway

Wow, so we've gone from saying the US didn't do enough to make Kyoto viable to saying its the US's fault for the problems of Kyoto and that opposition to just throwing out Kyoto is hating the US. And the right thinks that the left comes up with conspiracies. You see hate in everything.

whoman69

on Dec 14, 2004

Explain yourself then. What do you mean when you say that the US didn't do enough, if you don't mean that they are to blame for it being so worthless? If you don't see how we see you blaming the US by saying it didn't do enough, then you aren't even trying.

It means that I am not going to fall for your argument. I said nothing blaming the US for the failures of Kyoto. I find fault with our policy of backing completely out of Kyoto with the idea that it cannot be fixed. I don't blame the US, I find fault with those who made the policy. You need to find that differencialtion. I spent seven years defending this country including at NATO headquarters, personnel command in DC, home of the screaming eagles Ft. Campbell KY, and was offered a position in the White House but did not accept because I did not want to extend my contract by six years. You see that I disagree with the current administration, so I must therefore hate America. Ridiculous.

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