Kyoto Protocol...is it a Japanes Delicacy?
November 2nd 2007 23:44
I read a disturbing yet extremely funny article yesterday, talking about the election and Climate Change. As we have read 86% of people think that climate change is relevant for the election campaign. Well you would think that means 86% of Australian's actually know something about Climate change....well apparently not....
Read below is an article in the Telegraph that shows some disturbing Data on what Australian's acutally think the Kyoto Protocol is....hmmm so we all want to sign it but we don't actually know what we want to sign..pretty funny really.
Read below for a snippet
here's the link....
Read below is an article in the Telegraph that shows some disturbing Data on what Australian's acutally think the Kyoto Protocol is....hmmm so we all want to sign it but we don't actually know what we want to sign..pretty funny really.
Read below for a snippet
Kyoto: the Japanese feast where you eat your own words
Annabel Crabb
November 3, 2007
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It sounds sort of like a bad airport novel, or one of those fabulously idiotic New Age tomes, in which an androgynous heroine finds peace and vegetarianism through a series of formalised tea ceremonies with nine mysterious sages, all of whom are capable of catching horseflies in their chopsticks.
According to a straw poll this week in The Daily Telegraph, quite a few Sydneysiders think the Kyoto Protocol is a Japanese delicacy; still more feel vaguely that it may have been a peace treaty ending World War II.
For much of the week, however, the real Kyoto - the 1997 agreement on the reduction of global carbon emissions - was the key point of debate in the election campaign.
The Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, it was revealed, harbours a secret hankering to ratify the thing, despite his Prime Minister's "consistent" opposition.
"Frauds!" shouted Labor, delighted.
Then Peter Garrett revealed that Labor would sign up to a new Kyoto Protocol even if it didn't oblige China and India to be part of it. Kevin Rudd agreed. Then they had a quick huddle and decided that perhaps they wouldn't.
"Frauds!" screamed the Government, mightily relieved.
The truth is that just about everyone's a fraud where Kyoto is concerned.
The Government, the Opposition - even the environmental groups who cluster under the mighty totem of Kyoto, or the Wile E Kyoto Protocol, as it is known in the land of Looney Tunes.
Here's how the original agreement, reached in December 1997 after furious international lobbying and jostling, was reported: "The Government sees the Kyoto decision as a major victory which will boost its stocks with voters as it enters the Christmas break. It views the decision as a triumph of international campaigning with governments and against sophisticated environmental groups. John Howard last night said the outcome was 'against all the predictions, against the criticism of the Labor Party, the cynicism of our critics. It's a first class outcome for Australia and one that is certainly pro-employment in Australia.' "
That story was published on page four of The Daily Telegraph on December 12.
Its author (for 10 points in Campaign Trivial Pursuit) was David "Smokin' Hot" Luff, who some years later moved his celebrated pecs out of News Limited and into the Howard media office, where he smoulders to this day.
Here's what the PM had to say about Kyoto in The Australian Financial Review, also on December 12: "It's an outcome that will protect tens of thousands of Australian jobs and it's also an outcome that will put the world on a firmer path towards controlling greenhouse gas emissions."
Annabel Crabb
November 3, 2007
Page 1 of 2 | Single page
Other related coverage
* Miranda Devine: Dead treaty, but Labor's flogging it
Advertisement
It sounds sort of like a bad airport novel, or one of those fabulously idiotic New Age tomes, in which an androgynous heroine finds peace and vegetarianism through a series of formalised tea ceremonies with nine mysterious sages, all of whom are capable of catching horseflies in their chopsticks.
According to a straw poll this week in The Daily Telegraph, quite a few Sydneysiders think the Kyoto Protocol is a Japanese delicacy; still more feel vaguely that it may have been a peace treaty ending World War II.
For much of the week, however, the real Kyoto - the 1997 agreement on the reduction of global carbon emissions - was the key point of debate in the election campaign.
The Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, it was revealed, harbours a secret hankering to ratify the thing, despite his Prime Minister's "consistent" opposition.
"Frauds!" shouted Labor, delighted.
Then Peter Garrett revealed that Labor would sign up to a new Kyoto Protocol even if it didn't oblige China and India to be part of it. Kevin Rudd agreed. Then they had a quick huddle and decided that perhaps they wouldn't.
"Frauds!" screamed the Government, mightily relieved.
The truth is that just about everyone's a fraud where Kyoto is concerned.
The Government, the Opposition - even the environmental groups who cluster under the mighty totem of Kyoto, or the Wile E Kyoto Protocol, as it is known in the land of Looney Tunes.
Here's how the original agreement, reached in December 1997 after furious international lobbying and jostling, was reported: "The Government sees the Kyoto decision as a major victory which will boost its stocks with voters as it enters the Christmas break. It views the decision as a triumph of international campaigning with governments and against sophisticated environmental groups. John Howard last night said the outcome was 'against all the predictions, against the criticism of the Labor Party, the cynicism of our critics. It's a first class outcome for Australia and one that is certainly pro-employment in Australia.' "
That story was published on page four of The Daily Telegraph on December 12.
Its author (for 10 points in Campaign Trivial Pursuit) was David "Smokin' Hot" Luff, who some years later moved his celebrated pecs out of News Limited and into the Howard media office, where he smoulders to this day.
Here's what the PM had to say about Kyoto in The Australian Financial Review, also on December 12: "It's an outcome that will protect tens of thousands of Australian jobs and it's also an outcome that will put the world on a firmer path towards controlling greenhouse gas emissions."
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