Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.
The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.