and one more point, what surprises me is ,
while a handful of greedy blood suckers destroy earth , human kinds future, abuse all workers
for more money,
you are defending them, ignoring evidences and burrying the head in sand..
well , go on..
Methinks it is the other way round. One day, you will be surprised to learn that it is you who is inadvertently defending the blood suckers.
here you go then..
"The U.S. signed the Protocol, but did not ratify it. Before the Protocol was agreed on, the US Senate passed the
Byrd-Hagel Resolution unanimously preventing ratification of any international agreement that 1) did not require developing countries to make emission reductions and 2) “would seriously harm the economy of the United States”.
[99] Therefore, even though the
Clinton administration signed the treaty,
[100] it remained only a symbolic act and was never submitted to the Senate for ratification.
When
George W. Bush was elected US president in 2000, he was asked by
US Senator Hagel what his administration's position was on climate change. Bush replied that he took climate change "very seriously,"
[101] but that he opposed the Kyoto treaty, because "it exempts 80% of the world, including major population centers such as China and India, from compliance, and would cause serious harm to the US economy".
[102] Almost all world leaders (e.g., China, Japan, South Africa, Pacific islands) expressed their disappointment over President Bush's decision not to support the treaty.
[103]The US accounted for 36% of emissions in 1990, and without US ratification, only an EU+Russia+Japan+small party coalition could place the treaty into legal effect. A deal was reached in the Bonn climate talks (COP-6.5), held in 2001.
[104]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol and from bbc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/policies/kyoto.shtml