US - Reaktionen zu BUSH Ansichten !
"A total, unmitigated disaster."
Frank Loy, lead negotiator for climate change issues under former President Bush
Bush, Schroeder Disagree on Kyoto Pact by Patricia Wilson - Reuters/LA Times (CA)
"They`re (the allies) very angry for several reasons ... on a personal level since they put in enormous amounts of effort. They assumed there would be changes (with Bush), but not a withdrawal," Loy said.
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"Although President Bush has argued that the Kyoto Protocol could damage the economy, not implementing the treaty would actually be more damaging.
Outside the U.S., many countries are moving rapidly to pursue a new generation of 21st century energy technologies such as fuel cells, wind turbines, and solar electric generators.
The attempt by the Bush administration to return to reliance on coal, a dirty fuel that is a relic of the 19th century, would be a costly economic mistake.
In the end, those countries that address climate change earliest will dominate the massive new energy technology markets of the new century - and create millions of jobs in the process."
Christopher Flavin
President, Worldwatch Institute
Member, Department of Energy Hydrogen Technological Advisory Panel/HTAP
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"In the near-future, countries which do not take part in the race for the development of hydrogen technology will have to pay a very high price for importing this technology."
Professor Charles Sorrell, Centre for Materials Research in Energy Conversion
University of New South Wales, Australia
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U.S. Aims to Pull Out of Warming Treaty by Eric Pianin
Washington Post March 28, 2001
"The issue is a global emergency,
a disaster underway.
It is not a potential threat.
It is with us now and gathering costs,
immediate and future, daily.
...The warming that is to come
will push the climate well beyond the realm
of what scientists can predict in any detail
and into the realm of surprises."
"The carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere is 33 percent higher now than it was in the latter part of the nineteenth century and rising daily. The total release of carbon from burning coal and oil and gas is now about 6.5 billion tons annually. There is an additional release of carbon from the distruction of forests, about 1.6 billion tons annually. Of that sum 3 to 4 billlion tons accumulate every year in the atmosphere. There they cause the rapid, continuous warming of the earth as a whole; changes in precipitation paterns; migration of climatic zones at a rate of one to several kilometers per year; the melting of glaciers; an accelerated rise in sea level; an expansion of the regions affected by the great tropical diseases; and an increased range and frequency of climatic extremes, including large storms.
"These changes are not hypothetical. "They are measurable now and accelerating."
-- George M. Woodwell, head of Woods Hole Research Center, MA
Amicus Journal, Spring 2001