Japan to buy carbon emission credits from the Czech Republic

There is so much irony in the whole Kyoto Protocol situation.

No. Wait. Irony would mean it was unexpected. But those who laughed at the Kyoto Protocol all these years have expected this exact situation.

Japan won’t meet it’s target.
[Almost no country will, except the few given lax targets or that have had a relatively huge GNP crash, thus less industry, since 1990 i.e. Russia]

But Japan will “meet” it’s target by giving money to other countries, who promise to not emit CO2, and there’s absolutely no oversight or confirmation of this.

And the whole “not emit CO2″ thing, are they actually reducing CO2 emissions? or just enacting plans that would cut hypothetical emissions in growth forecasts? Again with no oversight, and of course confirmation is impossible even if there were. “Yeah, we are GONNA emit 1 gazillion tons of CO2 next year, but if you give us cash at $1 per hypothetical ton, we will only emit 0.8 gazillion tons.”

Yet while all the cash transfer happens and targets are “met”, America is actually doing better than most other countries on ACTUALLY cutting CO2 [due more to higher gas prices combined with the USA's comparatively large automobile dependence, plus private energy conservation, than any government policy] the Euros and others will still be hypocritically pointing their fingers at the USA. Further, private charitable donations, and US aid to Africa dwarfs all other countries. Do they exceed carbon credit cash? Probably. Even further, much of the green technology that will actually reduce pollution and CO2 is being invented in the USA.

Green is good. Better energy is good. The Kyoto Protocol is a load of BS wealth-transfer program to let politicians think that they, rather than engineers and scientists, are helping the environment.