Kyoto Accord Goes Into Effect Today (Feb 16, 2005)

[Jake]

141 countries have ratified this. Who are the other 51?

The intelligent ones who don't wish their economies destroyed.  It will be great to see Japan fall into a depression from this.

[Jake]

I finally found a list.

http://www.climnet.org/EUenergy/ratification/1990sharestable.htm
Not ratified
It reads like the who's who of reject countries

Afganistan (Bin Laden land)
Albania
Algeria
Andorra (tiny)
Angola
Australia (only other major 1st world country)
Bahrain
Bosnia
Brunei
Burkina Faso
Cape Verde (tiny)
Central African Republic
Chad
Colombia (war torn, thanks to US)
Comoros
Congo
Congo, Dem. Rep. of
Croatia
East Timor (very new)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti (government just overthrown by US)
Iraq (ummm, yeah)
Iran (State dept says terrorist)
Kazakhstan (
Kenya
Kuwait (why'd we free these bastards?)
Lebanon (sh**t is hitting the fan there)
Libya (State dept says terrorist)
Moldavo
Monaco (tiny)
Nepal (sh**t going down)
North Korea (North Korea and the United States are united)
Palestine (not really a country)
you forgot Poland - no it's not on this list
St. Kitts and Lewis (tiny)
San Marino  (tiny)
São Tomé and Príncipe (tiny)
Serbia
Sierra Leone (war torn)
Singapore
Suriname
Swaziland
Syria (State dept says terrorist)
Taiwan (maybe they're mad that they're not in the UN)
Tajikistan
Tanzania
United States (fits in quite well)
Vatican City  (tiny)
Venezuela
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe (one of many election stealers on this list

Always knew the Australians were a smart bunch.  Also, Jfraud, the majority of countries here are developing and or low industrial nations.  And the rest are major exporters of oil and were smart enough to not sign something that hurts their interests.

[Jake]

Low Industry/Developing
Afganistan
Albania
Bosnia
Burkina Faso
Central African Republic
Chad
Colombia
Croatia
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Kenya
Lebanon
Moldavia
Nepal
North Korea
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Suriname
Swaziland
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe


Oil Exporters
Libya
Brunei
Venezuela
Kuwait
Iraq
Bahrain
Iran
Zaire
Gabon
Syria
Congo
Algeria
Angola
Kazakhstan

1st World
United States
Australia

Oh, and calling the US a terrorist nation is pretty uncalled for.

[Jake]

Oh, and calling the US a terrorist nation is pretty uncalled for.

Only 1 country has been found guilty of terrorism by the world court.

Okay...The temperature at my house today was 39 degrees.

[Jake]

Okay...The temperature at my house today was 39 degrees.

Gee, it's winter time, what do you expect?
Your data point does not disprove global warming.

Maybe you'll feel differently in August.

I expect it to be wintry weather.  Hopefully, before I die the temperature cycle will be on the down slide back to actual winter temps (20-25 degrees).  And BTW, I was making a completely off topic remark like you terrorist nation/world court thing.