Kyoto 'Fail': Global warming a cold case?

It took years of complicated negotiations and compromises - and many hoped it would prove a major breakthrough in bringing climate change under control. But now many question if the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions - which came into force five years ago today - did help tackle gas emissions.

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[408Magenta]

Kyoto is a farce. It is all fasulo. Canada was right to pull the plug on that joke.

[Liitjer]

of course RT wants to debunk human impact on global warming. you guys know anything about russia

[JNathanK2011]

@mattyelle1 YAh, fuck the carbon tax. Its just a fee that corporations will use to pay to pollute,. The smaller competition won't be able to pay it, and will go out of business. This doesn't mean that environmental issues aren't a real problem. It just means large corporations and politicians want to cease on real issues to further their agenda without actually solving anything. Who's to say the government will even use the tax money to even do environmental research? My guess is they won't.

[mattyelle1]

@ShwangShwing The carbon credit will also help fund contracts to large corporations to develop infrastructures in 3rd world countries. The ownership of this infrastructure will go to the global government that controls the carbon tax. The working people will be forced into sweatshop slavery (no minimum salaries discussed). It has been leaked that the control will go to the Rothschild. They already own 1/3 of the world's gold. Your GW will enslave the world.

Watch Fall of the Republic.

[mattyelle1]

@ShwangShwing I don't know if you have read and understood the Carbon Tax Bill, but it will further widen the disparity between rich and poor.

Everyone will have to pay this tax. A few, selected by the non-corrupt gov of the US, will be granted immunity. Small businesses won't be able to purchase carbon credit while it will b like pennies for large corporations. All businesses will need carbon accountants. Small businesses won't be able to afford that...

[ShwangShwing]

@mattyelle1 If that will reduce the dependence of humans on fossil fuels and will reduce the CO2 emissions, then I'm all for it. No one will tax you for breathing, don't worry :)

[mattyelle1]

@ShwangShwing lol. oil companies are pushing for man-made global warming along with governments because of carbon tax. It's a wold tax which is meant to lead to a wold government.

You will b taxed for breathing and for heating your home.

[ShwangShwing]

@mattyelle1 I don't know about the other GHG, but carbon dioxide doesn't absorb smaller wavelenths. 

[mattyelle1]

@ShwangShwing I want to fix something from my comment: space is not empty.

In fact, it's filled with an infinity of pixels called photons. As energy radiates from a body, it excites these weightless particles which transfer energy at the speed of light. These are UV, visible light, infrared all the way up to radio (and beyond). But our eyes can only identify excited photons within the visible spectrum coming directly at us.

Although this may seem irrelevant, though you could use the info ;)

[mattyelle1]

@ShwangShwing GHG absorb some ultra violet rays as well, although you are correct the Ozone layer absorbs the majority. But to say GHG (and all other atmospheric layers) doesn't abosorb or reflect light is ignorance. We know that space is black because we see it this way at night...and also because it is empty. Yet during day time we see the sky as blue. This is the atmosphere absorbing and reflecting light coming from the Sun.

So yes, visible light is restrained by GHG...just like infrared