Meeting Kyoto Standards in CitiesThis
fawning article on local mayors attempting to meet the Kyoto mandates is amusing. Look at the "sacrifice" the mayor of Seattle is making his citizens endure:
Mr. Nickels said that to achieve the 7 percent reduction, Seattle was requiring cruise ships that dock in its bustling port to turn off their diesel engines while resupplying and to rely only on electric power provided by the city, a requirement that has forced some ships to retrofit. And by the end of this year the city's power utility, Seattle City Light, will be the only utility in the country with no net emissions of greenhouse gases, the mayor's office said.
Salt Lake City has become Utah's largest buyer of wind power in order to meet its reduction target. In New York, the Bloomberg administration is trying to reduce emissions from the municipal fleet by buying hybrid electric-gasoline-powered vehicles.So cruise ships account for 7 percent of Seattle's greenhouse gas emissions? Somehow I doubt that it's even 1 percent; it's just that's where they could get an easy reduction.
