The New York Times 02/16/12 John M. Broder
“US Pushes to Cut Emissions on Some Pollutants that Hasten Climate Change”
Impatient with the slow pace of international climate change negotiations, a small group of countries led by the United States is starting a program to reduce emissions of common pollutants that contribute to rapid climate change and widespread health problems.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to announce the initiative at the State Department on Thursday accompanied by officials from Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden and the United Nations Environment Program.
The plan will address short-lived pollutants like soot (also referred to as black carbon), methane and hydro fluorocarbons that have an outsize influence on global warming, accounting for 30 to 40 percent of global warming. Soot from diesel exhausts and the burning of wood, agricultural waste and dung for heating and cooking causes an estimated two million premature deaths a year, particularly in the poorest countries.
Scientists say that concerted action on these substances can reduce global temperatures by 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 and prevent millions of cases of lung and heart disease by 2030.
The United States intends to contribute $12 million and Canada $3 million over two years to get the program off the ground and to help recruit other countries to participate. The United Nations Environment Program will run the project.
Officials hope that by tackling these fast-acting, climate-changing agents they can get results quicker than through the laborious and highly political negotiations conducted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or U.N.F.C.C.C. That process, involving more than 190 nations, grinds on year after year with incremental political progress but little real impact on the climate.
Common Sense Review
Well being a resident here in Michigan we experience “Climate Change” so much that it is one of our mottos. “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes”. This theory of Climate Change has existed since the beginning of time. Mother nature adjust the weather over regions as she see fit..
I see all the “Climate Change” as a manipulation of the mass.
They want to limit hydrocarbons (soot) found in crude oil. The problem is crude oil is the foundation for all the poly products we use. From clothing, laptops, to dishes refined crude is use to better our lives.
Methane which are emission from the ground, natural compost, cow and many of my relatives, are natural gases that are needed to keep the balance in our atmosphere. The Earth’s atmosphere consist of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, argon and other small gases as well as water vapor. This is a delicate balance.
Hydro fluorocarbons which are used in refrigeration, air conditioning and fire extinguishers, have become a part of our lifestyle.
I find it interesting that with all these factors of “Climate Change” that the US response is spending $12 million.
Why do I get the feeling that this fraud is the foundation for money laundering?
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