Britain and Calif. to join forces on global warming

Houston Comical (AP) ^ | July 31, 2006, 6:36AM | JOHN HEILPRIN

[The_Victor]

I thought, per the Constitution, that only the federal government could enter into international treaties.

[Jameison]

"then withdrew U.S. support from the Kyoto treaty requiring industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse gases to below 1990 levels"

Groan.
More Associalistic Press BS.
The Klinton administration had NOT promulgated the Kyoto treaty, and the US Senate had voted OVERWHELMINGLY AGAINST adopting the Kyoto Treaty.
The treaty was already dead in the water before President Bush took power.
He merely put it, out of it's misery for good.

[Jameison]

"The green fundamentalists have never been shy about casting the first stone.

If the world fries because of climate change, they thunder, it will be America's fault. Or, more specifically, George W.'s, because he took the Kyoto Protocol out of the desk drawer where Bill Clinton had stashed it for several years, and definitively binned it. "


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674996/posts

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Clinton counted the votes prior to submitting the treaty to the US Senate. It was never considered by the legislative branch, thus the US never "withdrew" from anything.

[Jameison]

"thus the US never "withdrew" from anything"


Yup.
You can't withdraw from something you never joined in the first place.
But try telling that to he Associalistic Press shills.

[randog]

People who accumulate unused carbon allowances — for example, by driving less, or switching to less polluting vehicles — could sell them to people who exceed their allowances — for example by driving more.

How about people that don't have any kids, like me? After all, one of the most environmentally-incorrect things a person could do is burden the earth with more "polluters", right? Damn, I'm gonna be rich!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'm constantly amazed at the lack of depth in AP's reporting. It wasn't always this way, I can assure you...

[You Dirty Rats]

From Article I, Section 10:

"No State shall, without the consent of Congress ... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power ..."

Foreign relations are delegated to the Federal Government, not to State Governors. Ah-Nold is off base on this one.

[npg]

So Arnold speaks for the U.S. now?

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

"I thought, per the Constitution, that only the federal government could enter into international treaties."

Since our constitution does say this, a lot of things are called into question with this scenario...

[marsh2]

I wonder how many carbon credits California gets for allowing the USFS to neglect Forest management - encouraging massive fuel build up and resultant heavy wildfire. (Why the Gov. has even exacerbated the situation by unilaterally declaring all roadless areas made under Clinton to remain without roads.) In my valley, we cannot even go outside, the place is so choked with smoke. Of course, no one can get to the fires, so I am told they will continue to burn into winter when the rains and snows put them out.

[OldPossum]

I read somewhere that someone quipped that California was our only State with its own foreign policy. Here's some more proof of that.

[GeronL]

The US needs to place sanctions on the rogue state of Californication

[wildbill]

Seems like the best market of all would be China and India and other third world countries who are exempted from the Kyoto protocol emissions caps.

They could easily outbid the other countries with their cheaper cost emission levels.

So let's 'sell' all out carbon emissions to them.

[NorCalRepub]

.we have enough sanctions on us already...like subsidizing half the U.S. anyway.....

[madison10]

So California is its own country now? Californico? ('course we always knew that, guess it's now official) Where's a San Andreas fault when you need one?

[NorCalRepub]

....I thought that was for treaties etc....I think any state can enter into business transactions with anyone that isn't a terrorist state....they do it all the time.....

[La Enchiladita]

Deport the illegals. They don't get their old toyota trucks smogged.

Also, try to imagine liberals giving up their SUVs.

[La Enchiladita]

Please. The correct name is Mexifornia.

[Always Right]

After taking office, Bush reversed a 2000 campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions

LOL, the ghost of Christie Todd Whitman lives. Bush gave one stump speech in front of a small crowd where a writer inserted CO2 as a pollutant to be regulated. Bush was very clear in the debates and in every other speech that he would not regulate CO2. This was the reason CTW was canned.