Why does the American government refuse to ratify the Kyoto Protocol?

Question

The United States puts out nearly one third of the world's greenhouse gases. Still, our government will not agree to a treaty that will be beneficial for it, along with the rest of the planet. How can they deny the validity of a global treaty that all but two nations have agreed to in some way?

Answer 1

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ friends of our government, sad

Answer 2

The US has some of the best scientific advisers in the World. They have been acutely aware of the scientific shortcomings of Kyoto for some time. The rest of the Scientific Community is starting to catch up.
Just two years ago a survey of Scientific papers found that more than half seemed to accept Greenhouse Gasses as the cause of Global Warming.
Papers written since then are skewed the other way.
Solar Scientists have explained how Global Warming is the result of cycles of Solar activity.
Historians have pointed out cyclic Climate Change in human records.
Worst case models have Greenhouse warming melting glaciers and causing mass extinctions. We hear of those.
Best case models have human activity slowing the warming by global dimming. We don't hear of those.
Of course "worst" and "best" case scenarios are equally unlikely to the point of impossibility.
In short the US Government had good intelligence telling them that they stood to ruin their economy and lower the standard of living for all Americans by doing something that would in all likely hood make no real difference to Global Warming.
Other countries signed Kyoto for simple political expedience - their Governments needed the "Green" vote to stay in power. At that level politics and truth don't mix.

Answer 3

The Kyoto Protocol is a worldwide contract appropriate to the United countries Framework convention on climate replace. the main characteristic of the Kyoto Protocol is that it instruments binding objectives for 37 industrialized countries and the ecu community for lowering greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions

Answer 4

The current administration does not think the Kyoto Protocol is fair to force the United States to lower adimissions and allow other countries to sign on and do nothing at the present time. This doesn't make any sense because if a country like Ethopia reduced its emissions by 10% they would be reduced to a level below what most people need to live.

Answer 5

OK if we agree will u stop using your car? there would be people that would be put out of work. It would crash our country we cant live on 33% of our present fuel usage . And it is based on a lie. Of the green house gas the largest is CO2 and that is not a pollutant but part of Mother natures air recycle process. A few million years ago when she introduced plants . The plants have eliminated the problem and there has been no increase in CO2 . The plants through a process called photosynthesis recycles our air and if u follow it further it recycles our fossil fuels. STOP trying to fix something that is not broken.

Answer 6

The vote in the Senate against it was 98 or 99 to 0, so it wasn't "this administration" stopping it all by itself. It also doesn't stop India or China from emitting the gases so the US is logical to wonder why it should volunteer to hamstring its economy when its biggest emerging competitor doesn't have to do anything. Global warming is also just a theory, hasn't been proven to exist no matter how much the media wants to shove it down your throat.

Answer 7

India and China are spewing pollution at ever increasing rates. They want to hog tie our industries to standards that other countries will not have to meet. It would economically strangle the US economy. The true purpose of the Kyoto Protocol is "redistribution of wealth". The US has the cleanest industrial facilities in the world. If they(you) don't like it, shove it up yer ****, we ain't signing.

Answer 8

Short-sighted economic reasons.

Answer 9

because the political parties are supported by the donations of big businesses....businesses that are smog/pollution producing....they would lose valuable donations by supporting something that would cost thier donors money to fix or lose business...

Answer 10

It has to do with economics, to be polite.