Quotes by Kyoto The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol. Al Gore kyoto goal earth Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September. Ally Carter kyoto dad thinking Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter. Andrew Card kyoto country world The Kyoto treaty ... has no scientific foundation Andrey Illarionov kyoto global-warming foundation The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated. Andrey Illarionov kyoto gdp country The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round. Andrey Kapitsa kyoto atmosphere horse If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution. Bill McKibben kyoto data iraq We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on. Bill McKibben kyoto issues taken It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto accords on their own. It makes it unbelievably difficult to do that, for a variety of economic and regulatory reasons, without the participation of the biggest energy user in the world. Bill McKibben kyoto energy gone The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Bjorn Lomborg kyoto effort years The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. Bjorn Lomborg kyoto cost years The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. Bjorn Lomborg kyoto drinking years Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming. Brian Mulroney kyoto global-warming process The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over. Christopher Flavin kyoto structure challenges I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. David Hockney kyoto garden taken If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets? David Suzuki kyoto india giving Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve. David Suzuki kyoto target achieve The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol. Enric Sala kyoto sea needs Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. Fred Thompson kyoto people thinking Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have to be equated with a destructive nihilism but with the experience of unity and participation - whilst resisting the tendency of objectifying metaphysics to claim that we can in some way 'know' that this experienced unity is really the truth of how things are, i.e., reveals being itself. George Pattison kyoto unity school 12»