To put that into
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. Christine Todd Whitman
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In reality, Kyoto was
In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection. Charles Krauthammer
Whether the process proves
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let’s acknowledge the urgency of global warming. Brian Mulroney
The obvious issue is
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. Bjorn Lomborg
The Kyoto treaty has
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. Bjorn Lomborg
The total efforts of
The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Bjorn Lomborg
We’ve abnegated the Kyoto
We’ve abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we’ve instituted a voluntary program that’s obviously not been working, we’ve taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on. Bill McKibben
It’s much to the
It’s much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto accords on their own. It makes it unbelievably difficult to do that, for a variety of economic and regulatory reasons, without the participation of the biggest energy user in the world. Bill McKibben
If you look at
If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration’s decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the … Read more
The Kyoto theorists have
The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round. Andrey Kapitsa