Tony Blair Pulls the Plug on Kyoto at Clinton Summit
What the main stream press isn’t reporting on is that Tony Blair sank Kyoto at the Clinton Summit last week and how the big media players simply ignored it.
“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.
Really? Trying to implement Kyoto and seeing what it’s done to the British economy changed your mind has it? Hard to compete in the world market when you artificially inflate your own energy prices, not only petrol but more importantly electricity. And it’s even worse when those you’re competing with aren’t even covered by Kyoto!
Looking ahead to future climate-change negotiations, Blair said of such fast-growing countries as India and China, “They’re not going to start negotiating another treaty like Kyoto.” India and China, of course, weren’t covered by Kyoto in the first place, which was one of the fatal flaws in the treaty. But now 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.
The Lefty Labour PM seems to have had a blinding flash of the obvious.