Is Bush playing treaty "chicken"?

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, June 4, 2002 | Christopher C. Horner

[JohnHuang2]

As one of the first manifestations of President George W. Bush's supposed campaign of foreign policy "unilateralism," last year he rejected, withdrew from or otherwise abandoned the Kyoto Protocol on "global warming"

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, June 4, 2002

Quote of the Day by vladog

[Mike Darancette]

The president has undertaken no similar action to withdraw from Kyoto, the U.N. effort at rationing energy use among developed nations.

Ummm, wasn't ICC ratified by the requisite number of parties and put in force while Kyoto hasn't been approved yet.

Does anyone really believe that Bush would enter the US into Kyoto without the Constitutionally required Senate ratification?

[Mike Darancette]

Huh?

[Salman]

So does nuclear winter cancel out global warming?
Or could this be a religious right plot to get rid of Key West and Fire Island?

[altair]

Ummm, wasn't ICC ratified by the requisite number of parties and put in force while Kyoto hasn't been approved yet.

The Kyoto Protocol automatically goes into effect when 55 countries ratify it. Japan was #55 last week.

I don't know why everyone is in such a rush to give the world to China. They stand to make a fortune if Kyoto is actually adopted.

[rottweiller_inc]

Does anyone really believe that Bush would enter the US into Kyoto without the Constitutionally required Senate ratification?

does it really matter if he carries out the treaty anyway without ratifying it?

[Mike Darancette]

does it really matter if he carries out the treaty anyway without ratifying it?

Where would Bush get the money to pay 3rd world nations under the terms of the treaty?

[rottweiller_inc]

By doing what politicians always do; call it something else and offer aid.

[Mike Darancette]

The Kyoto Protocol automatically goes into effect when 55 countries ratify it. Japan was #55 last week.

Koto requires 55 countries representing at least 55% of the world's greenhouse gas omissions. Even with Japan and the EU signing this week without the US they are still short.

Russia and Poland may sign later this year giving them their 55%.

That would be the time for W to give them the bad news.

[altair]

Koto requires 55 countries representing at least 55% of the world's greenhouse gas omissions.

Thanks for the correction. The report I read earlier didn't make that distinction.

[WhiteyAppleseed]

Two hundred years ago, the founding fathers intended a separation of Church and State; James Madison wrote, “religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.”

Today, subjective science is used to accomplish the task the misuse of religion would accomplish if not for the First Amendment.

If Madison was here today, he would be shouting from the rooftops, "Science and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together." We need an amendment to separate Science and State. We need this yesterday. Science no longer is enlightening; when used by government and those in power it is only used to coerce and shackle liberty.

[lavaroise]

Good point, government and certain class/behavioral minorities support each other in their claim of sinlessness. Kyoto treaty a sinless treaty? Harldy ever so, especialy given the fact it gives itself this aura against "evil" "unilateralism". The socialist hypocrisy is hence unveiled: why can they mandate what sin is when they refuse us a voice of objecition?

Unilateralism rules in this instance and so called multilateralists can rot in their dead end hell of absurdity.

[niki]

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