Well... at least those bas*ards who are ruining our planet now have to pay for it.... (yay?)
I tend to agree.
On the other hand, I find that jealousy is most likely the most effective method of getting something done in this case. So, carry on producing CO2, it just makes my grass greener. You know, I really don't have any motivation to stop the climate change now that I heard of its effects here. I wonder if I should do some unnecessary driving with a large SUV today too?
I should probably start to switch mobile phones a lot more often than every seventh year.
EU setting environmental taxes and strict regulations had
the completely and utterly unexpected consequence that a lot of factories got a reason to move to countries without pollution control, nullifying and worsening the problem. Effectively EU just transferred a fraction of its CO2 outputs to elsewhere, and made them even worse. Congratulations scientists, hands up every one who did not see this one coming a mile ahead.
Luckily, the green tech stuff is likely going to sell relatively well to China and India in the coming years.
EDIT:
Congratulations for the scientists for predicting the methane release. That is a relatively impressive piece of evidence that their model is at least somewhat valid.
It is said that the Arctic regions warm-up the quickest, actually, why is that? I don't remember reading this from the IPCC report, and I'm a little bit curious of the phenomenom behind this?
