While Tony Snow is trying to convince us that America is actually doing a better job of curbing emissions than the EU--despite not having any real CO2 standards, despite having not signed the Kyoto Treaty, and despite Americans being the worst emitters of CO2 on the planet--Austraiia, also a non-signer of Kyoto, has announced that it is going to ban incandescent light bulbs, to be replaced with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. Noting that incandescent light bulbs have hardly changed in the 125 years that they have been used, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull described it as less of a ban than an inability to buy inefficient and wasteful product, with the phase-out becoming effective by 2009: "By that stage you simply won’t be able to buy incandescent lightbulbs, because they won’t meet the energy standard."

Posted on 20 February, 2007, in Global Warming
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