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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: zonder who wrote (61235)12/12/2002 4:43:18 AM
From: D. Long   of 281500
 
http://unfccc.int/resource/kpstats.pdf

The US is listed as a signatory. But the signature is worthless without ratification, which will never happen. Because no US Senate will ever ratify it. Kerplunk.

And as others have posted here:
On November 12, Peter Burleigh, the acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, signed the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Before that date, every major developed nation had signed the treaty except the United States. The signing is seen as a purely symbolic gesture on the part of the White House due to widespread opposition of the protocol in Congress and ratification of the treaty by the Senate, as it stands now, is seen as a pipe dream.

That, in American political parlance, is called a DODGE. The Clinton Administration put its Hancock on it to stick the political fallout on the next Administration. The Administration knew the treaty wouldn't be ratified, but it took the political points by signing it. That's politics.

Derek
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