Comments on: Friedman on Bali: “What Was That All About?” http://priceofoil.org/2007/12/19/nyt-on-bali-%e2%80%9cwhat-was-that-all-about%e2%80%9d/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:02:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jags http://priceofoil.org/2007/12/19/nyt-on-bali-%e2%80%9cwhat-was-that-all-about%e2%80%9d/#comment-196657 Jags Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:21:27 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/12/19/nyt-on-bali-%e2%80%9cwhat-was-that-all-about%e2%80%9d/#comment-196657 While Friedman admits that he needed 10 experts to explain the agreement to him, a lot of people are throwing out misguided statistics on the climate change pact. An article in the American Thinker sensationally argues that countries that signed Kyoto arent putting their money where their mouth is. It argues that while U.S. emissions increased only 6.6% from 1997 to 2004, compared to a whopping 21% for countries that ratified Kyoto. I looked at the same data American Thinker uses and find very different results. http://unremarkablepolitics.blogspot.com/2007/12/kyoto-protocol-why-us-must-ratify.html While Friedman admits that he needed 10 experts to explain the agreement to him, a lot of people are throwing out misguided statistics on the climate change pact.

An article in the American Thinker sensationally argues that countries that signed Kyoto arent putting their money where their mouth is. It argues that while U.S. emissions increased only 6.6% from 1997 to 2004, compared to a whopping 21% for countries that ratified Kyoto.

I looked at the same data American Thinker uses and find very different results.

http://unremarkablepolitics.blogspot.com/2007/12/kyoto-protocol-why-us-must-ratify.html

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