Bush Gives In.

President Bush announced he will “not shirk his responsibilities in the fight against climate change.” and the United States will “serious consider any treaty to fight climate change.” This is a huge setback, if even the United States is giving in to scaremongers such as Al Gore and high-powered special interest groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists then we can kiss one trillion, one hundred billion dollars goodbye. (This is the estimated yearly cost of McCain-Feingold climate legislation, a far more sane bill then the one hyped by democrats and the U.N.)
Hopefully, the new treaty not have the flaws of Kyoto. Sadly, it probably will take the many problems with the Kyoto Protocol, and make more problems, and make the existing ones worse. The first problem is that Kyoto creates a bubble that lumps all of Europe together and allows them to all take credit for advances made by England. (These advances have nothing to do with Kyoto, but have everything to do with Margaret Thatcher’s attempts to not be dependant on coal miners, which frequently struck during her tenure.) Outside of England, Europe has increased its GHGs (greenhouse gas emissions) by 27% since they ratified the Kyoto Protocol. This is never reported, instead American news programs focus on the failure of president Bush to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
In fact, for all the agonizing over Bush’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, you would think it could actually do something to combat climate change, but even the environmental versions of chicken-little (Al Gore and his cronies,) agree that Kyoto cannot slow climate change by more than 0.015%. In a public statement, the Union of Concerned Scientists (think Al Gore with degrees) have said “the Kyoto Protocol is really about symbolism, it’s a first step to combat climate change. Perhaps once this succeeds, and the deniers are silenced, we can begin meaningful action.” Symbolism does nothing but drain economies, and give Europe and the Democrats another reason to bash Bush.
To get back to the “new treaty” that our president has vowed to “seriously consider.” I hope this is simply political maneuvering and that Bush hasn’t given in the scaremongers and alarmists. The last thing America needs to sign any treaty that will cripple our economy and force us to pay huge penalties if we cannot meet nigh-impossible standards.

(The full article can be found at this link http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKN3023796820070930)