Lately, he has ridiculed Bush's alternative plan to the Kyoto's international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming. We all know that president Bush is a manufactured product of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) American machinery and as such president Bush releases economic policies which are both an invention and byproducts of this GDP machinery. Bush's alternative to the Kyoto's plan focuses on the reduction by 18 percent in the next 10 years of the newly invented economic indicator "greenhouse gas intensity."

The greenhouse gas intensity is defined as volume of gas emissions divided by GDP. Now since the Bush administration wants to reduce this ratio by 18 percent over the next 10 years, and since it is expected that the GDP will increase by some 30 percent over the same period, then the resulting effect will be an increase of 6.6 percent (1.30 times .82) in the overall gas emissions in 2012. The Kyoto's treaty set a target for the U.S. to reduce emissions by 7 percent below the 1990 levels within a decade, but the Bush's plan is a phony plan as while it may reduce the invented "greenhouse gas intensity" by 18 percent in the next 10 years it will increase the emissions by 6.6 percent over the 2002 emissions which are already 14.5 percent above 1990's levels.

The Bush's plan is a regressive plan as in the year 2012 the Americans will increase their greenhouse emissions by about 22 percent over the 1990 emissions (1.145 times 1.066). Also, we must know, that while the U.S. continues to be the biggest polluter on the planet, Britain and Germany have reduced greenhouse gases below 1990 levels by 10 percent and 8 percent, respectively, while maintaining economic growth.

All our premiers, with the exception of Bernard Laundry of Quebec, are a joke as they oppose Canada's commitment to honor the Kyoto's treaty and join the fabrication of Bush's greenhouse gas emission policies. The more I refer to the provincial economic policies and the more I realize the phony mentality of our political leaders to copycat the American policies. What we need is to understand what "intelligent common sense" is, rather than follow the bushy "common sense" peddled by president Bush, and by our copycat premiers such as common sense Mike Harris of Ontario, practical man Gordon Campbell of British Columbia, and clown Ralph Klein of Alberta.

References

Ersatz Climate Policy by Paul krugman. SYNOPSIS: The new Bush Greenhouse-gas initiative decreases nothing except Bush's credibility. Originally published in The New York Times, 2.15.02 http://www.pkarchive.org/column/021502.html

Japan Not Satisfied with Bush Climate Proposal Daily News Yahoo, February 14, 2002 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020214/wl/bush_climate_japan_dc_1.html

George Bush's global warming speech Full text http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalwarming/story/0,7369,650821,00.html

Clear skies for US, gloom for Kyoto. Bush's new environment policy fails to cut gas emissions, Julian Borger in Washington, February 15, 2002 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalwarming/story/0,7369,650478,00.html

Premiers ambush Chrétien on Kyoto. His only ally: Quebec: Klein leads group saying climate treaty could sap economy Robert Fife, February 16, 2002 National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020216/75855.html