Political Football

Click here to read a powerlineblog article debunking the LIE that the White House is paying scientists to lie about Global Warming. 

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Mark Twain

Powerlineblog talks about Kyoto and what President Bush is doing to help the environment here and the current White House initiatives are documented in more detail here.

The Kyoto Protocol, written in 1997 was a bad document that placed the burden of environmental improvements primarily on the shoulders of the U.S. without realistically looking at China, India, Russia and the Third World.

In 1997 (early in the second CLINTON administration) the Senate voted on a resolution below and it passed 95-0.  [not voting Bryan (D-NV  Grams (R-MN) Reid (D-NV) Feinstein (D-CA) Harkin (D-IA)]

I find it interesting to note that even though John Kerry voted for the resolution, he urged President Clinton to sign the Protocol anyway…

Resolution
(1) the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter, which would–
     (A) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex I Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period, or
     (B) would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States; and

(2) any such protocol or other agreement which would require the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification should be accompanied by a detailed explanation of any legislation or regulatory actions that may be required to implement the protocol or other agreement and should also be accompanied by an analysis of the detailed financial costs and other impacts on the economy of the United States which would be incurred by the implementation of the protocol or other agreement.

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