The Russian Federation has signed the flawed Kyoto treaty that is supposed to limit greenhouse gases to below 1990 levels. The Russians did this to gain entry into the World Trade Organization with the support of the European Union, which had been encouraging Moscow to sign the treaty.
Most observers do not think that Russia will obey the terms of the treaty as it will fall way short of the goals that are now imposed on it by other nations.
The other bad news is that since Russia signed the accords, it now goes into effect worldwide and now all nations who are signatories will have to abide by the treaty.
The treaty calls for nations to cut their emission levels to 5% below 1990 levels by the year 2012. If any signatory nation falls short, it has to cut industrial production under the terms of the treaty.
I’m all for cutting greenhouse gases, but not at the cost of hundreds of thousands of jobs. We ought to be building “green” plants to replace the older ones that feed pollution into the atmosphere and then transfer those workers into the new plants. We don’t simply cut back on industrial production, which will harm our economy more than any other on the planet. We make the processes better by making them cleaner, not by stopping them outright and under threat of international sanctions.
It's better to spend more on building new plants and reducing our greenhouse emissions that way than having a treaty that is based on flawed and tampered-with research to impose penalties on us. The major research done to sell the treaty was exposed as being manufactured and influenced by environmental groups. This is very unfortunate.
You can’t get a straight answer from any group that has dedicated itself to a cleaner Earth. You also can’t get a straight answer from industry either. It’s kind of like the Presidential campaign.
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