[OT] Computer and Trees .. was Re: [oclug]someone must have asked

[Chris Herrnberger]

On Thursday 21 November 2002 16:49, Jon Earle wrote:

> My beef with Kyoto is more to do with the current administration's intent
> to sign it without debate, without open discussion, without consideration
> of the consequences to the economy or to the potential for Canadians to
> lose their jobs, and without a free vote on the matter.  

Ya know, I like many just simply said..gee this is cool, when I first heard 
about it. backgrounder...in a former life I have over 15 years expereince 
with evironmental design and policy management. Really didnt give it much 
thought either when I heard the Canuck were signing up.

Then last week I was channel surfing to get some decent background noise while 
working on linux isues...and focussed in on CPAC channel..What caught my 
attention was they had the directory of the Danish Environmental Assessment 
Institute on presenting his perspective on Kyoto...it was almost two hrs 
long. The long and short of it based on the data presented, which absolutely 
blew me away...(linux work got left undone) was that the best that Kyoto 
would do is delay the mean global temp increase by four years. As presented 
its basically a stall tactic at tremdouse cost, as Kyoto is not designed 
around permant or addressing solutions. Its about containment. The entire 
presentation was based on a discussion that if we are going to spend how many 
billions annually why not focus the funding on solutions rather then on 
containment strategies. Interesting perspecitve.

What has this to do with linux...plenty...non if it got done while I watched 
this. {hence OT}  and fully agree with Ian by the way..:)


/ch