And bring us down to their level!
GARDI SUGDUP, Panama (AP) — As the Obama administration makes headway at home in the fight ( lol)against global warming, it has helped stoke record exports of fossil fuels that are contributing to rising levels of pollution elsewhere.
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U*.S. exports of gasoline and diesel more than made up for the savings at home in pollution abroad, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Those exports released roughly 1 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere elsewhere during the same period.*
In Panama, imports of diesel and gasoline from the U.S. have nearly quadrupled since 2008.
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"It’s a false image," said Onel Masardule of the Indigenous People’s Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative, a Peru-based environmental group. “In reality, the U.S is still contaminating.”
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Man are we evil!!!
Still, Panama says it contributes no carbon dioxide to the atmosphere because its sizable forests absorb more carbon than it releases from vehicle tailpipes and deforestation. Forests owned by the Guna people in the northeast parts of the country, are some of the most pristine and help Panama reduce carbon pollution naturally.
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And for the big finish!!!
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Those forests are being eyed for carbon credits, a system by which countries or companies reduce their carbon footprints by paying to ensure forests are protected.
“When we speak about trees, we talk about our brothers and sisters,” said Jorge Andreve, director for Panama’s environmental agency in the Guna Yala region. “You can’t put a T-shirt with a dollar sign on a tree, when you don’t own that tree.”
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1000 points to the first person who can spot the real cause and agenda of “global warming” outrage.
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Somewhere ManBearPig is counting his billions and laughing.
Hint 2: WASHINGTON — President Obama* announced on Saturday that the United States will contribute $3 billion to a new international fund intended to help the world’s poorest countries address the effects of climate change.*
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The cost to poor countries of adjusting to ever-hotter temperatures will be two or even three times higher than previously thought, the U.N.'s environment agency said Friday ? and that assumes a best-case scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced.
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“If you don’t cut emissions, we’re just going to have to ask for more money because the damage is going to be worse,” Ronald Jumeau of the Seychelles said at U.N. climate talks
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Projecting the annual costs that poor countries will face by 2050 just to adapt, the United Nations Environment Program report deemed the previous estimate of $70 billion to $100 billion “a significant underestimate.” It had been based on 2010 World Bank numbers.
“We know what needs to be done. We just need the dollars or euros,” said Jumeau
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Of course you do.
The report says new studies indicate the costs will likely be “two to three times higher,” possibly even as high as $500 billion.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/climate-change-costs-poor-underestimated-27393422
