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| The Kyoto Protocol Launches! But Will it Matter? |
| 2005-02-18 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 so that is why it is so bitter cold today! |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-02-18 4:49:17 PM |
| #2 Well it's only about 31 in D.C. today. I guess those folks were right about Kyoto after all! And over night!! (/sarc) And now that it is cold again--thanks A LOT for that, by the way--I guess we can go back to business as usual. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-02-18 4:46:41 PM |
| #1 Just a reminder for your records - http://www.nationalcenter.org/KyotoSenate.html Byrd-Hagel Resolution, July 25, 1997, passed 95-0 "Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that-- (1) the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter, which would-- (A) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex I Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period, or (B) would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States; and (2) any such protocol or other agreement which would require the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification should be accompanied by a detailed explanation of any legislation or regulatory actions that may be required to implement the protocol or other agreement and should also be accompanied by an analysis of the detailed financial costs and other impacts on the economy of the United States which would be incurred by the implementation of the protocol or other agreement." |
| Posted by: Thraing Whaimp1866 2005-02-18 1:24:39 PM |