Then there was one: US now alone as Kyoto holdout

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071124/pl_afp/unclimatewarmingaustralia_071124203352

PARIS (AFP) - Supporters of the Kyoto Protocol were gleeful on Saturday after Australian elections left the United States in the wilderness as the only major economy to boycott the UN's climate pact.

The ouster of Prime Minister John Howard stripped President George W. Bush of a key ally barely a week before a conference in Bali, Indonesia, on the world's response to climate change beyond 2012, they said.

"It's great news for the Kyoto Protocol," Shane Rattenburg, Greenpeace's political director, told AFP.

"It's a very important event in the international climate debate, and for Bali. It will leave Bush and the United States more isolated."

Industrialised countries that have signed and ratified the Protocol are required to meet targeted curbs in their greenhouse-gas emissions by 2012.

Disgraceful.

heheheh..."

will be, s/he will be signing the agreement? :shrug:

:evilfrown:

Well, theoretically we signed it, but Steve (The Ape) Harper and his oilpatch cronies are doing all they can to sabotage the treaty. My apologies to the world for our asshat excuse for a prime minister.

One hopes we'll follow Australia's example and turf the bastards soon.

... but Congress either refused to ratify it or refused to enact legislation that would force us to comply with it.

Something like that.

-Laelth