[RussianConservative]

Also in Russia almost every two week, new factory open...so I believes, Russia soon run out of "credit" to sell anyway. Beside, warmer weather....why not? Envirogoons not count on Russians saying hmmm warmer weather, why not? Then they not count on having to rely on Russia for silly pact.

[dinasour]

Had the US agreed to the protocol, Russia stood to make a lot of money selling us emissions credits. The timing of the cut off date was specifically chosen to be before the Soviet Union collapsed.

This would have more than offset any pain that they would have had to endure trying to meet the requirements of Kyoto.

Now that that isn't going to happen, Putin isn't going along with it.

It was never about the environment, it was about transferring money from the US to Eastern and Western Europe, and putting UN bureaucrats essentially in control of the entire Wests' economies.