Happy AGW Day

This interesting chart is from the European Environment Agency. As you will see, the only non-former communist countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions at all were Denmark, Sweden and the UK, and only the UK has made any substantial progress. ("Germany" includes the former East Germany.) By way of comparison, the US ghg emissions have increased by about 16% since 1990 and only 1.6% since 2000.

So, all Greens are anti-communist, right?

Et Tu, Captain Ed?

Over at Captain's Quarters, Captain Ed takes the media to task for misrepresenting the history of the Kyoto Protocol. Just to prove, though, that a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth, the Captain, in the course of correcting NPR, states that "Bush formally withdrew from Kyoto." In fact, as long-time readers of the secret blog know, we've never withdrawn from Kyoto. For that matter, we're even making decent progress towards our goal: since 2000, US greenhouse gas emissions have risen by less than the G8 average.