On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:07:18 -0600, Mike Hartigan
wrote:

In article ,
says...
[...] Kyoto only calls for reductions, not elimination.

Kyoto is what turned this into a blatantly political issue. Kyoto
calls for neither a reduction nor an elimination of global CO2
emissions. It simply prescribes a redistribution of these emissions.
It virtually guarantees that manufacturing would shift largely from
the US to so-called 'developing countries' (China, India, et al) -
countries that are on track to surpass the US in oil consumption
during the next decade, even without Kyoto. It's just one more
incentive to outsource.

And when you press the people whingeing about it online hard enough
they eventually almost universally go off on how the US is the Evil
Empire and Bush is the Antichrist for not signing Kyoto.