Concerns
about greenhouse gas emissions simply do not have a high priority now in developing nations.
Not exact matches
If
simply to support the Kyoto Protocol is to beat our heads against a stone wall, then those who care
about the future of the planet need to consider other ways of reducing the
emission of
greenhouse gases.
The Bush administration made clear today that it doesn't intend to do anything
about climate change in the final six months in office, announcing that instead of responding to the Supreme Court's mandate last year that the EPA determine the dangers posed to humankind by
greenhouse -
gas emissions they would
simply request further public comment.
«I suspect that it
simply wants to manufacture doubt
about the temperature records to create a distraction while countries are negotiating a new international treaty to cut
greenhouse gas emissions, to be agreed at a summit in Paris at the end of this year.»
Simply thinking
about industrial
emissions of
greenhouse gases is not all that useful.
Lomborg is also right to note that even if we're worried
about worsening hurricanes due to global warming, it doesn't necessarily follow that our most immediate policy solution should
simply be to cut
greenhouse gas emissions.