Ecobel
Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Joined February 22nd 2007
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- About Me
- I realised how important it is for my mind to be friends with my brain and since then life has been easy...
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Comment by Ecobel
on Emissions Trading
I am afraid I may have misled you about the Global Warming Swindle documentary (it was I who sent Sara the link). It is entertaining and I was curious about some of its claims, but it seems that most of the dissent is either out of date or just plain misleading. Here is a link to New Scientist's reaction and some answers to the questions posed by the documentary: Really Long Link
Now I am up for dissent as much as the next person- but why they had to make an antagonistic, flawed documentary is beyond me. Something else beyond me is why it matters whether the observed warming is caused by humans - Sa maybe you could discuss this? We have scientific proof that CO2 insulates the planet, so pumping more up there will make matters worse. Why does it matter whether nature does it more than us?
And I have a comment on the Clean Development Mechanisms. They seem great in theory, but unfortunately they make a mockery out of emissions capping. The reason is this: developed countries have caps on emissions. Developing countries don't, they can emit as much as they like. When a country like NZ says we will build a windfarm in Malawi and not a coal fired power plant they get the difference back in extra emissions. So say a windfarm emits 20000tonnes of CO2 less than a coal fired power plant, then NZ gets 20000tonnes EXTRA to emit. If Malawi had a cap and gave the 20000 tonnes to NZ then the system would work. But it doesn't. As long as a developed country invests in renewable energy in a developing country and says it could have built the worst type of plant, it gets the difference back. So emissions aren't really capped at all.
Joint Implementation works though because it involves a capped country investing in another capped country- i.e. countries in Eastern Europe.
And that ends Bel's blog today. Sara, great work, very concise and informative.
xbel