Islamic terrorists murdered their way onto the front pages of the world media at the beginning of this month. What was obscured in the fallout of their demonic inspired violence is the fact President Bush was very successful in moving the world’s major economies back in line with his vision. This article’s publication date is 8/1/2005 so I suppose this technically qualifies as good news from the future: G8 Leaders Move Closer to U.S. Position on Global Warming.
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialized nations concluded a summit meeting during the first week of July with a joint statement on climate change that heralded a significant shift away from the command-and-control regulatory focus of the Kyoto Protocol.The Kyoto Protocol is effectively dead and European socialists can bury another command and control government solution to an invisible scary monster. Allowing technology and innovation time to emerge and produce financially feasible methods of dealing with scientifically justified concerns is the rational approach. Don’t think the leftists will come around to this view because the driving desire behind socialism is the use of government power, and not the elimination of problems.
According to the joint statement, "uncertainties remain in our understanding of climate change." The leaders pledged "to put ourselves on a path to slow and ... stop and then reverse the growth of greenhouse gases," but to do so only "as the science justifies."
Nevertheless, the statement emphasized the path to greenhouse gas stabilization should focus on technological innovation and economic feasibility, rather than command-and-control emissions caps. Strikingly absent from the joint statement was any mention of the Kyoto Protocol.
