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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.
The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.
I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.
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 Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.