Clinton on Kyoto: "It's a very good thing to fail in the right cause."

[bananas]

From Joe Romm's blog:

http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/clinton-on-kyoto-its-a-very-good-thing-to-fail-in-the-right-cause/

Clinton on Kyoto: “It’s a very good thing to fail in the right cause.”

Since President Clinton’s press conference today was not webcast, I thought I would blog on that.

There’s so many good talks that I am behind on my CGI blogging, yes, and I will catch up, but I hope that you have been tuning in to the webcast — Clinton said today that 400,000 people were (up from 50,000 last year).

Clinton remains a genuine polymath (unlike Greenspan) — without notes, he gave a 7-minute history of the human race and civilization — starting 150,000 years ago in the Olduvai Gorge through today (which takes us from 1 human to 6.5 billion) through 2050 (which adds another 2.5 billion in the blink of an eye) — to give some idea of the scale and speed of the transformation taking place on this planet.

He was asked about the Kyoto Protocol, and replied “we should all be personally impatient about climate change.” But we must remember “most ideas aren’t adopted when they are first proposed.” Then he said the quote that I used in the headline, adding that such failure “keeps people stumbling in the right direction.”

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[HeraldSquare212]

1. He didn't fail in a good cause - he didn't even try

It was never sent to the Senate.

[losthills]

2. Oh yeah...

The "REPUBLICAN" Senate.

Bashing Bill is unjustified. He did try.

[razzleberry]

3. Kyoto treaty, fifteen years to do nothing

1998-2012

[NNadir]

4. Well, when we look at any of these "by such and such a date, x percent...:" laws and treaties

about energy, especially ones that include the word "renewable" in them, we should immediately understand that useless talk is being substituted for real action.

Most of the world spent the entire 1990's demonstrating that it couldn't care less about dangerous fossil fuel waste, although there was lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of talk from scientific illiterates like the Oracle at Snowmass about how dangerous so called "nuclear waste" was.

In fact, the <em>only</em> form of energy residue of any type that raised real emotions in scientific illiterates - some of whom went on to get great jobs at Walmart hawking cheap plastic goods made in China using coal power and then hauled to the United States in diesel powered freighters and trucked in diesel powered trucks - was so called "nuclear waste."

Clinton was more of a follower than a leader. He couldn't have cared less, at the end of the day, about what Svante Arrhenius was writing in the 19th century about the physical properties of carbon dioxide and the possible effects it might have on the earth's atmosphere, but he was awfully, awfully attentive to the libertarian babbling of Ayn Rand's disciple Allan Greenspan was saying about interest rates in 1998.

I've seen Clinton give a long speech for which he was paid - for a two hour exposition that included some praise for George W. Bush, predator - even more than the Oracle at Snowmass is paid for hanging out for a day in the Rio Tinto boardroom.

Clinton is clearly a bright man - I don't know that I'd call it "genius" or give him a "genius award" like the one given to the Oracle at Snowmass - but Clinton is also a man who knowing the predatory nature of his (and his country's) enemies, and that they were gunning for him on the basis of his predilection sexual indiscretion, chose to take the blow job from the 19 year old girl.

Dealing with the blow job was far more important to Clinton's record than his action on the most important human issue of our times - possibly any time - climate change.

It's not like Clinton can say he never heard of the issue of climate change either. I believe his Vice President had written a rather long book on the subject. One wonders if Clinton - who spent a lot of time paling around with the Gazprom executive Gerhard Schroeder and Tony the Poodle - ever bothered to talk with his Vice President.