Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Truth About Kyoto
There seems to have been a lot of misinformation propounded about the signing and non-ratification of the Kyoto Accords by the United States. During the time that the Treaty was basically finished but not ready for signing, our Senate voted 95-0 on a measure (Sen. Resolution 98) which directed the Executive not to negotiate a treaty like Kyoto became. We signed the treaty anyway (Al Gore did) but the Clinton administration never tried to get it ratified by the Senate. And given the vote before the treaty was finalized, who can blame them.
The Bush administration has continued the Clinton policy of not submitting the policy for ratification. That is history.
If I had a dime for every lefty who has blamed the Bush administration for not signing the Kyoto treaty I would be dollars richer, but it is complete bunk. The buck stopped with Clinton and Gore, and with the Senate which told everyone not to bother putting it in front of them. Bush is blameless to rational people. And the Senate was right to signal its displeasure with the treaty--it accomplishes very little at an enormous cost which only falls on leading industrial nations but leaves huge polluters like China and India out.
Are the nations which signed and ratified it living up to their pledges of CO2 reduction? Not hardly.
The Bush administration has continued the Clinton policy of not submitting the policy for ratification. That is history.
If I had a dime for every lefty who has blamed the Bush administration for not signing the Kyoto treaty I would be dollars richer, but it is complete bunk. The buck stopped with Clinton and Gore, and with the Senate which told everyone not to bother putting it in front of them. Bush is blameless to rational people. And the Senate was right to signal its displeasure with the treaty--it accomplishes very little at an enormous cost which only falls on leading industrial nations but leaves huge polluters like China and India out.
Are the nations which signed and ratified it living up to their pledges of CO2 reduction? Not hardly.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:10 AM 
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Bottom line, Kyoto is not pollution quantities lowering, insomuch as it is about pollution distribution and weakening the economy of the USA.
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