Un año de estos a alguien se le terminará de caer la cara de hipocresía con el asunto de Kyoto. Pero mientras tanto, resulta tan agradable mirar por encima del hombro al Toxic Texan desde nuestra atalaya de satisfacción ecológicamente correcta que es dificil afrontar las contradicciones entre lo que prometemos hacer y lo que vamos a hacer. Robert Samuelson en el WaPo:
Europe is the citadel of hypocrisy. Considering Europeans' contempt for the United States and George Bush for not embracing the Kyoto Protocol, you'd expect that they would have made major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions -- the purpose of Kyoto. Well, not exactly. From 1990 (Kyoto's base year for measuring changes) to 2002, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, increased 16.4 percent, reports the International Energy Agency. The U.S. increase was 16.7 percent, and most of Europe hasn't done much better.
[...] On their present courses, many European countries will miss their Kyoto targets for 2008-2012. To reduce emissions significantly, Europeans would have to suppress driving and electricity use; that would depress economic growth and fan popular discontent. It won't happen. Political leaders everywhere deplore global warming -- and then do little. Except for Eastern European nations, where dirty factories have been shuttered, few countries have cut emissions. Since 1990 Canada's emissions are up 23.6 percent; Japan's, 18.9 percent.
[...) All this busywork won't much affect global warming, but who cares? The real purpose is for politicians to brandish their environmental credentials.
Pues eso. Por cierto, ¿se sabe ya algo los sets de datos que se le pidieron al Ministerio de Medio Ambiente referentes a aquel informe apocalíptico sobre el cambio climático? En su día se negaron a proporcionar dato alguno o información referente a las metodologías y modelos empleados. No se iban a negar... si era todo inventado!
--Golan