Bush administration praised for opposing Kyoto treaty

[Soldier4Christ]

Bush administration praised for opposing Kyoto treaty

A public-policy think tank says the Bush administration is completely justified in ignoring the demands from European countries to ratify the Kyoto global warming treaty.



H. Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a non-profit research organization that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. He says the administration recognizes that a Kyoto-style treaty would do little or nothing to prevent warming or help the environment, but would put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage to other countries.

Burnett says the U.S. doing a better job of emission control than many countries that have signed Kyoto.

"While our economy is growing faster than Europe's [and] our population is growing faster than Europe's -- some of Europe has shrinking populations -- they are putting out more emissions per unit of GDP, more emissions per unit of energy used than we are," the NCPA spokesman observes. "Our plants, our workers are more efficient."

He says Europeans need to stop criticizing the United States for not ratifying Kyoto, which he points out has always really been an economic treaty -- not a climate treaty.

"And the funny thing is, despite the fact that the U.S. has not been a party to the treaty [and] did not ratify the treaty in the Senate, ... overall we have done a much better job than our European allies, who have committed to the treaty, of slowing our emissions growth," Burnett explains.

He adds that as far as he can tell, there is no move in the Senate to ratify the Kyoto treaty.

[Brother Jerry]

Bout time someone came out and supported these actions....  When I first heard about Kyoto I knew there was nothing about conserving energy or pollution...it was all about money and a push to a communistic global economy..

[Soldier4Christ]

That's precisely what global warming is all about and nothing more. It is sad that some people will grab at anything for money and power.

[Faithin1]

Greed will be a primary factor in the destruction of this country....along with the minimization of God.