¿Why the government resists to sign the Kyoto Protocol?

Question

The United States is one of the most industriest countries in the world, and also one of the most contaminant, why us don't want to protect the environment reducing the emissions of greenhouses gases like the other countries in the Kyoto protocol?

Answer 1

China is the second largest contributor of Co2. Do you think they will comply? Plus, the UN report is politically tainted....... Also, as some background, top scientists have refuted man's affect on the climate such as Astrophysicist Nir Shariv who stated, "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming. Particularly because of the evidence that has been accumulating over the past decade of the strong relationship that cosmic-rays have on our atmosphere."

"The sun's strong role indicates that greenhouse gases can't have much of an influence on the climate."

Even doubling the amount of CO2 by 2100, for example, "will not dramatically increase the global temperature."

I don't think there is a debate about whether global warming is occurring, but the idea that it is man made is a myth. Remember, the UN that came out with a recent report about climate change is a political entity that has done many things to prove it is not a credible, un-biased source. A recent example is the oil for food scandal that diverted millions of dollars to UN members and others. Also, even if there was man made climate change, China (the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter) and India are not going to embrace fossil fuel consumption.

Additionally, many scientists disagree about climate change and 17,000 signed a petition against the Kyoto treaty. Unfortunately, the sales focussed media who know little about this, spin it to suit their own opinions. So, its highly debatable whether humans are influencing global warming. Another thing to consider is that every 11,500 years, the earth goes through a major extinction with a global warming and cooling phase (ice age.) Paleontologists are able to track this through soil samples. We may actually be headed into an ice age because we are coming to the tail end of the current cycle. The problem is that the media and politicians get focussed on a piece of the puzzle and try to simplify this issue. Don't be fooled. There is probably nothing humans can do. Even if we could, there is no way you can control China who is becoming a major world polluter. Humans will need to adapt to climate change. Where I live there are small changes in our weather pattern, but nothing major. A lot of the media is hype to sell newspapers. The only caution is that some past climate changes have been more radical, swinging wildly from hot to cold. Others have brought on instant and severe cold conditions. I know the area that I live used to be buried in hundreds on feet of ice, but temperatures are mild today... Humans will just need to wait and see what mother nature brings and adapt as necessary.

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Winter Blast Brings Snow To West LA, Malibu
CHP To Escort Motorists Through Icy Grapevine
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Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
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Global warming 'just a natural cycle'
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Imminent Global Cooling
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R.G Bromley (1979)and Kenneth J Hsu (1982) - Dramatic sea temperature changes in earlier extinctions
Norman D Newell - Sea level plunge before extinctions
Anthony Hallam University of Birmingham, UK
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Answer 2

C'mon on. China and India either said no or are off the hook. And both are now or on the way to being super-polluters. With our regulations about water quality, air quality, waste management, and all that, we may be the biggest generator of CO2, but we are certainly more advanced than either of those two. Kyoto was a political show. Yeah, global warming is real, but American SUVs aren't the only bad boy on the block.

Answer 3

Gee, ask the Clinton Administration and the Congress back then why they dumped it. Unanimously.

The Kyoto protocol is not based on science. It's purpose is to steal from productive nations, and give the money to unproductive countries.

The US, with 6% of the population, produces about 75% of the World's goods and services. And our water and air are far cleaner than you'll find in China or the former Soviet Union.

Kyoto won't solve global warming on either Mars or Earth. Kyoto is junk science and Comintern propaganda.

Answer 4

Because the Kyoto Protocol is pure crap. Go look up the most polluted cities in the world and you will not find even ONE American City in the top ten..The whole greenhouse gasses theory is pure fiction.

Answer 5

because president bush didnt think that the united states would be able to lower emissions, which he was right for once.