GOV. WANTS EMISSIONS TERMINATED

Climate emissions "terminator" and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called a meeting of friendly countries to work out ways of cutting back greenhouse gas emissions.
The governor invited China, India, Australia, Canada and Mexico as well as EU countries to attend the meeting before a United Nations next coordinated climate gathering in Poland.
Schwarzenegger wants the US and China - the world's biggest emitters of CO2 - to reduce carbon emissions to prevent further implosions of climate change such as droughts and floods.
"We know that Washington is asleep at the wheel. We cannot look for leadership there," Schwarzenegger told the San Francisco's Commonwealth Club.
California has set its own legislation to cap emissions and is operating an independent market for carbon credits separate from the federal government. Schwarzenegger is also opposed to drilling for oil and gas off the coast of California - despite the federal government passing new legislation to allow drilling offshore.
The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) that includes California and six other U.S. states and four provinces in Canada, aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
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Climate emissions "terminator" and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called a meeting of friendly countries to work out ways of cutting back greenhouse gas emissions.
The governor invited China, India, Australia, Canada and Mexico as well as EU countries to attend the meeting before a United Nations next coordinated climate gathering in Poland.
Schwarzenegger wants the US and China - the world's biggest emitters of CO2 - to reduce carbon emissions to prevent further implosions of climate change such as droughts and floods.

Out of simple curiousity, why not bring Brazil and others South American countries into the discussions, since the deforestation of the rain forests, that are a major absorber of CO2 and a producer of Oxygen, is proceeding at a rate many times faster then are the increases in CO2 emissions?
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"RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines in the deforestation rate.
Nearly 300 square miles of Brazilian rainforest was destroyed in August, officials say.
Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc said upcoming nationwide elections are partly to blame, with mayors in the Amazon region turning a blind eye to illegal logging in hopes of gaining votes locally.
Non-government environmentalists blame the global spike in food prices for encouraging soy farmers and cattle ranchers to clear land for crops and grazing.
Elections no doubt play a part, but "the tendency of deforestation rising is deeply related to the fact that food prices are going up," said Paulo Adario, who coordinates Greenpeace's Amazon campaign.
"When you have elections, the appetite of authorities to enforce laws is reduced," Adario said. "But the federal government has to step in and do its job."
Amazon destruction jumped 228 percent in August when compared to the same month a year ago, according to a report from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research. Some 756 square kilometers (292 square miles) of Amazon was destroyed last month, compared to 230 square kilometers (89 square miles) in August 2007.
The institute uses satellite imagery to track illegal logging It said the destruction was likely even worse than its figures show, since no information was available for about 26 percent of the Amazon covered by clouds."
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I find this at least a bit curious.
It also raises the question: Is there too much CO2 being produced, or is the problem result from an excess reduction in forestation and algae which absorb the CO2, sequester the carbon in their wood and leaves, and emit Oxygen.
Harry C.