Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative, an otherwise feelgood snoozefest boosting former-President Clinton's formidable ego, Blair said of Kyoto that nothing much should be expected:
"My thinking has changed in the past three or four years." So what does he think now? "No country," he declared, "is going to cut its growth." That is, no country is going to allow the Kyoto treaty, or any other such global-warming treaty, to crimp -- some say cripple -- its economy.So much, so irrelevant then for Kyoto. (A shame though that we've left ourselves $1 billion in the hole here in NZ, though.) How about after 2012, when Kyoto expires?
Blair is acknowledging the obvious: that after the current Kyoto treaty -- which the US never acceded to -- expires in 2012, there's not going to be another worldwide deal like it. So what will happen instead? Blair answered: "What countries will do is work together to develop the science and technology….There is no way that we are going to tackle this problem unless we develop the science and technology to do it." Bingo! That's what eco-realists have been saying all along, of course -- that the only feasible way to deal with the issue of greenhouse gases and global warming is through technological breakthroughs, not draconian cutbacks...
And there was some potentially significant news from Condi Rice, who was also on-stage all this time, sitting with Clinton and Blair in an Oprah-like format. Speaking of world energy policy for the future, Rice said, "Nuclear power is going to have to be part of the mix." Imagine that -- nuclear power! That's been the Bush administration view all along, of course, but the W. folks haven't gotten very far in resuscitating the industry. Yet if Blair is starting to show realism on Kyoto, he and other leaders around the world will see that nukes have to be part of the energy solution.
Oddly, you won't see this reported anywhere except TechCentralStation.
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I can't believe this hasn't been picked up by any other media. I'll be posting on my blog when i get home tonight...
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if we are prepared to put money into the army, then surely we are prepared to make tiny sacrifces to stop global warming, but building nuclear power station IS NOT ONE OF THEM, it is insa ne that blair has been pretending to agree with greens, and the public on global warming, pruley so he can build nuclear power stations, and increase the chances of a china syndrome, it is terrifying, and makes yo think is it true what all the cionspiracy therorists say, that government is ran by some kind, of conspiracy, of right wing millionaires, and lunatics who hate left wingers, so just do thinsg tio annou them, its so annoying, it makes no sense, if onloy there was some way of venging these horrible termites
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