9/16/2005
Tony Blair Says RIP to Kyoto Treaty
From Jim Pinkerton, at TechCentralStation: “Tony Blair Pulls the Plug on Kyoto at Clinton Summit.” The article opens:
Kyoto Treaty RIP. That’s not the headline in any newspaper this morning emerging from the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative, but it could have been — and should have been.
Onstage with former president Bill Clinton at a midtown Manhattan hotel ballroom, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was going to speak with “brutal honesty” about Kyoto and global warming, and he did. And Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had some blunt talk, too.
RIP indeed. But, why?
Blair, a longtime supporter of the Kyoto treaty, further prefaced his remarks by noting, “My thinking has changed in the past three or four years.” So what does he think now? “No country, he declared, “is going to cut its growth.” That is, no country is going to allow the Kyoto treaty, or any other such global-warming treaty, to crimp — some say cripple – its economy.
Looking ahead to future climate-change negotiations, Blair said of such fast-growing countries as India and China, “They’re not going to start negotiating another treaty like Kyoto.” India and China, of course, weren’t covered by Kyoto in the first place, which was one of the fatal flaws in the treaty. But now Blair is acknowledging the obvious: that after the current Kyoto treaty — which the US never acceded to — expires in 2012, there’s not going to be another worldwide deal like it.
Well then. 
Pinkerton observes this interesting phenomenon:
Interestingly, these words from Blair, addressing an audience of a thousand at the Sheraton just a few blocks north of Times Square, failed to get any pickup in the media. Even The New York Times, published just down the street, ran a story that dwelt on the star power in the room, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Jesse Jackson, and George Stephanopoulos. “Isn’t this awesome?” said one participant, and those words seemed to reflect fully the Times‘ take on the event.
Who’da thunk?
HT: Rush Limbaugh
Cross-posted at TMH’s Bacon Bits
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September 16th, 2005 at 2:14 pm
Well, well, well, seems like some clear thinking has come along and the Bush administration did exactly the correct thing by telling people to shove the kyoto protocol in the collective hookah’s and smoke it.
The correct thing that Bush did was protecting our country by protecting its’ economic viability, which of course is the bottom line to our Freedom. But many people don’t understand that simple connection.
Of course, the left will say that it is simply Blair doing a favor for his friend Bush by following along with Bush&Co. that Kyoto is bad for a countries economy….for some reeason they think that the same man they call chimpy and believe he has the IQ of a turnip they also ascribe such amazing powers of persuasion and deviosness also.
Funny world Cao, funny world.
September 16th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
BTW, can you imagine the look on Clintons face when Tony tossed his dumbass to the wolves like that?
Plane ride for Tony Blair to attend Clinton Summit? $1200 BP
Hotel room for Prime Minister Blair during Summit? $2000 BP per night.
Sticking it to Clinton during his Summit? ******* PRICELESS!!!!
September 16th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
Yes, Kender, it sure is. BTW, this was The MaryHunter’s post…he was kind enough to put this up today. I had a change in schedule and will not be going downtown this evening…but I’m busy putting together the signs we’ll be using for Monday. Looks like rain…which means I’ll have to protect them in some way.
September 17th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Blair Strangles Kyoto: BBC Strangle Truth
This is a stunning admission from Blair. After years of pandering to the enviro-loonies, it seems he’s finally grasped the stone, cold truth that Kyoto isn’t going to work.