America wants Kyoto Protocol replaced with peer-pressure campaign

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By John Upton

America never ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and it doesn’t want the rest of the world ever signing anything like it again.

As world climate delegates try (not very successfully, mind you) to thrash out a new agreement to replace the protocol, which expired last year, the U.S. is pushing a very different approach to reducing the world’s greenhouse gas emissions: international peer pressure.

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“Countries, knowing that they will be subject to the scrutiny of everybody else, will be urged to put something down they feel they can defend and that they feel is strong,” Stern said from Berlin during a summit of environmental ministers focused on ways to advance the UN climate talks. …

http://grist.org/news/america-wants-kyoto-protocol-replaced-with-peer-pressure-campaign/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/08/emissions-plan-global-climate-talks

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I find this quite devious: For one thing, the US operates as if it has no peers (at least that is the stated mindset) so how would this help? Second, its hard to imagine that the US politicians/lobbyists don't wish to eliminate Kyoto as a source of embarrassment or peer pressure. Like bankers with debt, they are packaging up the product of their own perfidy and selling it to eliminate the very thing they preach (responsibility).

This proposal puts beyond a shadow of a doubt for me that the Kyoto Protocol is a spotlight on polluters' policies.

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1. Hilarious

Proof , if any more is needed, that we don't intend to deal with AGW 'til people are dieing in large nmbers.