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Thank God for Kyoto

May 22, 2007 |

the average growth rate of carbon dioxide emissions increased from 1.1 per cent a year in the 1990s to a three per cent increase per year in the 2000s.

Lead author of the paper, Dr Mike Raupach from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and the Global Carbon Project, says that nearly eight billion tonnes of carbon were emitted globally into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide in 2005, compared with just six billion tonnes in 1995.

“A major driver of the accelerating growth rate in emissions is that, globally, we’re burning more carbon per dollar of wealth created,” Dr Raupach says. In the last few years, the global usage of fossil fuels has actually become less efficient. This adds to pressures from increasing population and wealth.”

“As countries undergo industrial development, they move through a period of intensive, and often inefficient, use of fossil fuel. Efficiencies improve along this development trajectory, but eventually tend to level off. Industrialised countries such as Australia and the US are at the levelling-off stage, while developing countries such as China are at the intensive-development stage. Both factors are decreasing the global efficiency of fossil fuel use.” csiro

Meanwhile Kate points out that Europe’s CO2 emissions are going up….way up and far from any hope of hitting Kyoto targets.

Fortunately, by 2012, Canada will have banned incandescent lightbulbs so everything will be just fine.

I am a global warming skeptic but if I was not I would be outraged at the sheer effrontery of the enviros claiming that Kyoto is any sort of solution or even bandaid. It is being universally ignored by the very people who are waving their scolding fingers at Canada.

It is well past time for the CPC to convene a real conference with real scientists to assess the costs and benefits of Canada’s continuing to pretend that Kyoto is anything but a figment of Maurice Strong’s imagination. And from there we need to chart our own course towards economic energy for Canada without paying lip service to the Goracle or Stern or, Heaven help us, Suzuki.


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