[farlander]

Good luck with that green/socialist/communist nonsense...

[CWOJackson]

"Major U.S. allies expressed..."

"...Canada and the European Union hope the..."

LOL! Allies?

[headstamp]

Yeah, they are used to blowing smoke up each other's butts over Kyoto why not try it with us to get rid of that nasty CO2.

Or maybe they can ask China and India first.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Washington, which has pulled out of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming.

Idiot journalist, we were never IN the Kyoto Proto-Tool.

Hello, McFly? 95-0 vote? U.S. Senate? Factchecking? Hello? Anybody?

Am I the only one here who'd like to take a stroll down to the wire-service offices and just start randomly kicking the crap out the people who work there?

[BobS]

After IRAN gets the hell nuked out of it, we'll talk; that is if they don't solve that problem FIRST!

[1066AD]

President George W. Bush pulled out in 2001, branding Kyoto an economic straitjacket.

Think that's a falsehood - don't think we were ever "in" it, Clinton's agreement was never ratified by Congress, right?

[Mike Darancette]

The United States, the biggest emitter of heat-trapping gases, has ruled out joining any U.N.-led talks in coming years on ways to rein in rising temperatures.

How will talking reduce heat-trapping gasses?

[liliesgrandpa]

“Icecaps could melt, raising sea levels and drowning coastal cities and low-lying Pacific islands.”

I thought that the icecaps where all melted right now. Did I miss the news on NY being under water?

And they should ban all volcanoes, there is more environmentally damaging gases released from one volcano than from all the factories on earth.

[Straight Vermonter]

It looks to me like we are already doing a lot to limit greenhouse gases.