562
Remember that number.
It is the number of coal fired plants that China plans to open in the next few years. Add in the USA and India (all three exempt or not signatories to Kyoto) and the number of plants goes up to 850.
…the implications of this planned coal-fired plant construction in China, India and the U.S. It estimated these 850 plants will put five times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than Kyoto is designed to remove, even if every other country, including Canada, miraculously hits its Kyoto target.
Pause for a second and reread that statement. Five Times what Kyoto would remove if every nation hits its target. Wow.
Lorrie Goldstein is taking on the Kyoto challenge and doing a great job. In this article he outlines how the biggest polluters are not included in Kyoto.
Something that I would like to add is that the Kyoto Protocol considers Saudi Arabia a “developing country” too which means the Saudis are not being penalized for pumping petroleum into the world while nations like Canada are.
For more, I urge people to read Lorrie Goldstein regularly. He is doing a good job trying to educate Torontonians on the myths surrounding Kyoto.
The problem with Kyoto
Debunking Hot Hysteria
More Kyoto Crimes
Well worth the time to read them.
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Stéphane Dion said that only 2% of emissions in Canada are made in Canada. So basically, we’re screwed. I wrote about it here, if you’re interested.
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As I’ve pointed out before, the building of these coal plants is the perfect indication that the money-laundering goals of Kyoto will never solve anything.
I wrote this point to John Baird recently, that if environmentalists are concerned with the environment, then transferring money between countries for “credits” is useless. If the environment is the concern, then any monetary penalty to Kyoto signatories should go directly to an international consortium of technology developers to produce public domain “green” technologies that all countries of the world can use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption and pollution.
Imagine if, instead of just passing money between countries, that money was actually spent on coming up with technology to reduce waste and hazardous materials. That would be a thousand times… no… a million times more productive for environmental goals. And, if the technology created became public domain (since it was paid for by all citizens of the world) then it would be available for free to any individual, government or corporation that could use it.
But we’ll never see that happen. Kyoto isn’t about cleaning up the environment. The environment doesn’t offer credit, so how can Kyoto’s plan revolve around credits?
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I see. So all Canada has to do is allow the Islamic radicals to take over. That will send us back to the 13th century and thus no longer a developed nation. Can it be done by 2012 though?
John M Reynolds
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The larger issue isn’t even that more coal-fired power plants are being built: the issue is that many of them in China aren’t being built to the latest clean-burning standards, which can result in a smaller environmental and economic impact than adding new natural gas fired plants.