Literally loony, as in separated from reality by a large measure. Take the scapegoating of the U.S. in this article:
With the U.S. Congress still unable to agree on climate legislation that would make major reductions in greenhouse gases, European officials said Thursday they have given up on reaching an agreement on a climate treaty in time for the 192-nation conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month....
"We are completely dismayed by the shuffling of feet and sliding backward of the developed countries," said Raman Mehta, program manager in India for global anti-poverty agency ActionAid.
Developing countries insist an amended Kyoto Protocol be the central document of a new treaty. The United States wants nothing to do with the protocol.
Hmm...an "anti-poverty agency"? What are they doing there one wonders? I thought this was all about the science? Of course it isn't. ActionAid is out there with palms outstretched. It's not science, it's a shakedown. I digress.
There was no sign that developing nations were backing away from their demands for next month's meeting — including that industrial nations pledge to reduce emissions by at least 40 percent of their 1990 levels by 2020. Scientists say at least a 25-40 percent reduction from those levels is required to avert climate catastrophe.
Got it? There will be a catastrophe unless the U.S. also follows along with Kyoto, an agreement that even the countries that signed it have not lived up to for almost twenty years. Here is the data on greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. See if you can find the Kyoto effect on CO2.
(I'm amazed to see even CFC levels are still higher now then they were in the late 80's when the ozone "crisis" was "raging out of control.")
Here are the CO2 emissions by country/region:
Do you see the EU or Japan being "on target" for a 40% reduction of 1990 levels in these charts?
If you do, you are nuts.
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