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You clearly do not know anything about the Kyoto Accord. There should be no reason why Kyoto will fail, look at Russia. They have accomplished their Kyoto targets and now are making money due to the carbon trading under Kyoto. If Russia can do it, which has a significant amount of oil as well, there should be absolutely no reason why Canada can not - either than oil companies in Canada have a greater say in policy formation than those in post-soviet Russia. Although a great argument against Kyoto would be the "no beef, no oil" argument, this is simply not true. Do you honestly believe that the Canadian government would ban beef and oil so that they could reach 6% under 1990 levels? Be realistic. Kyoto is not an all or nothing deal, it is a step towards cutting DOWN, not OUT, greenhouse gas emissions through things such as renewable energies, clean technology, ethanol etc... By no means would Canada stop oil drilling or cow production completely - the oil companies and ranchers would never, ever, let this happen.
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The reason the Kyoto accord is failing and WILL fail is that it is not an environmental document, but a political document. Even if all the signatories MET their targets, total CO2 emissions the world over would likely STILL be more than in 1990, specifically because the fast growing developing world do not have to reduce any GHG emissions. I think it's clear that you know very little about the kyoto accord.
And carbon credit trading? c'mon! let's worry about
real pollution, not cattle farts.
