What action did President GeorgW. Bush take with regard to the Kyoto Protocol?

Question

A. He strengthened it. B. He softened it. C. he took America out of it. D. He brought America into it.

Answer 1

E. He pretended it didn't exist

Answer 2

Bush didn't do (A), (B) or (D). At most, he might have spoken against it. I'd pick C.

Congress voted against the Treaty when Clinton was in office by the razor thin margin of 95-0.

When Dems and Republicans can agree that much, you know that the treaty at issue was horrid.

Kyoto would achieve *NOTHING* for the environment, but would bankrupt nations simply in complying with its standards.

It exempts India and China, which comprise nearly half of the world population, so it was never a treaty made with the environment in mind.

It is a treaty that assumes that CO2 reductions are man made and their reduction will be beneficial.

The money used to comply with Kyoto could bring clean water to every human on earth. (Our priorities are skewed.)

Answer 3

I'm not a Bush fan, but the Kyoto Protocol came around in 1997. The Senate sent a 95-0 resolution against it. President Clinton never submitted it for ratification, since it would certainly be defeated.

President Bush has not submitted it to the Senate for ratification, and it seems unlikely that he will.

Answer 4

The Kyoto treaty was voted down by the US senate 95-0 before Bush got into office.

It works like this:
Presidents negotiate treaties, they are either approved or disapproved by the Senate.

The Kyoto treaty was so badly negotiated by the previous administration that not a single US senator could support it because it was so bad for the USA.

Credit Al Gore for that one.

Once Bush was in office the treaty was already written in such a way that it could never get majority support in the Senate. Even if he wanted to it was too late for him to rewrite it.

If Kyoto is such a great treaty, and GWB is to blame, why doesnt the democrat senate majority ratify it? GWB can do nothing until the senate votes to approve it, even if he wants to.

Answer 5

E: He rejected it.
Speaking to British broadcaster ITV, he said he would instead be talking to fellow leaders about new technologies as a way of tackling global warming.

But he conceded that the issue was one "we've got to deal with" and said human activity was "to some extent" to blame.

Tony Blair is hoping for agreements on climate change and Africa when he hosts the summit in Scotland this week.

Mr Bush said he would resist measures that were similar to the 1997 UN Kyoto Protocol, involving legally binding reductions on carbon emissions, which Washington never ratified.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4647383.stm
That was in 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#United_States
That one explains what some States and Cities are doing, write your Mayor petition your Governor and get it going on.

Answer 6

He definitely did no longer do something with it. Congress had already indicated u . s . a .'s interest in starting to be a member of the protocol with their ninety 5-0 vote against it a pair of years earlier Bush became elected. Bush rightly chosen to settle for that vote as u . s . a .'s place on the topic.

Answer 7

He 86'd it. Congress rejected it the first time, under Clinton, 95-0. Why it was still sitting around, I'm not sure. It should have been tossed when it was rejected, but I guess the polls told Clinton that it would make little Al look bad to his enviro-whacko friends.

Answer 8

took us away from it, and is softening what the Kyoto treaty asks of countries to do..

Answer 9

Do your own homework.

Answer 10

Trick question, he didn't do any of those. Congress rejected it.