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A Rational
Approach to Climate Change monitoring
by Frank J.
Regan
You cannot even attempt to solve
Climate Change due to man-made greed house gases if you don’t even
know who is emitting green house gases and who is not. In Canada,
companies are required by law to report their carbon gas emissions;
in the United States we are not. We should.
We are kidding ourselves if we in
the United States can even begin to address our contribution to
Global Warming. We do know that the US is the largest emitter of
man-made green house gases, though we don’t know exactly who and the
only way we can is if we mandate companies to submit their emissions
so they can be regulated.
Of course, companies will believe
that the best way is for voluntary listing, but anybody with a
scintilla of realism knows that this won’t happen. This is so
because we already have a voluntary program and very few submit to
it. So, there is no chance of regulating our carbon gas releases
because we don’t know who is emitting how much green house gases and
no political resolve to make listing mandatory. At any rate some
states have voluntarily begun a program to list carbon gas releases.
But, I cannot conceive of realistic
program to curb man-made greenhouse gases that contribute to Global
Warming if the program is not complete and compulsory.
Check this program out: -
http://www.theclimateregistry.org/The_Climate_Registry_Press_Release.pdf
Washington, D.C.] – "Thirty-one states, representing over 70% of the
U.S. population, are charter members of The Climate Registry,
marking the largest national effort to take action on climate
change. The list of founding member states and tribes thus far
includes the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont,
Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the Campo Kumeyaay Nation."
The Climate Registry
"THE CLIMATE REGISTRY is a multi-state and tribe collaboration aimed
at developing and managing a common greenhouse gas emissions
reporting system with high integrity that is capable of supporting
various greenhouse gas emission reporting and reduction policies for
its member states and tribes and reporting entities. It will provide
an accurate, complete, consistent, transparent and verified set of
greenhouse gas emissions data from reporting entities, supported by
a robust accounting and verification infrastructure."
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