Merttann...I'm gonna stay on the subject "doing something about GW" and your statement
" Kyoto requieres %5.2 drop on emissions... Not an economic suicide... "
No one is anymore claiming Kyoto will actually DO anything measureable to the temperature even if it was fully implemented. The projection for an implemented Kyoto in 2050 is a .06 degree change!
In case you can't read the source there...it is UKMO...or United Kingdom Met Office. So Kyoto would be a lot of money spent/transferred with no result except $$ going to places it otherwise would not. I'll stay out of the politics but that is what drove the agreement...not good science or results.
I have to find my source and graphs again (too much data!) but there is another reputable study that says...OK, so Kyoto doesn't work...what if we reduced ALL tailpipe emissions 26% and built 1000 nucleat plants to reduce the equivilent # of coal plants? Even with this kind of expenditure...the net result was about a tenth of degree departure from the currently predicted UN temperature in 2100.
EDIT..FOUND THE DATA: From Dr. John Christy, John R. Christy
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Alabama State Climatologist
1000nukes.jpg
The red line is the UN best estimate of future temps if their predictions are correct. The blue line is what effect building 1000 nuke plants BY 2020!!...would have and it is .07 degrees by 2050 and .15 by 2100. Similar graph exists for cutting auto emissions by 26% and that only results in a .01degree temp lowering by 2100.
I will come back with the graphs and citations...but for now...the point is that fighting global warming (IF you believe the IPCC warming projections!) in any meaningful way is pretty hopeless and VERY expensive unless you want everyone to live like in colonial times again!!