To listen to the propaganda being presented by former VP Gore and others regarding global warming and the eco-fantasy movie "The Day After Tomorrow", one would think that only George W Bush stands between the world and salvation. After all, it was President Bush who declared the Kyoto Treaty dead and refused to submit it to the Senate. Right?
Wrong. It was President Clinton who failed to submit Kyoto to the Senate -- because he knew it would be overwhelmingly rejected. As the negotiations at Kyoto were concluding, the Senate passed the following Resolution (S.RES.98, 105th Congress, 1997):
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--The vote? 95-0. One would have to assume that VP Gore knew this, being President of the Senate. Perhaps he just doesn't recall.
(1) the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter, which would--(A) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex I Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period, or(2) any such protocol or other agreement which would require the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification should be accompanied by a detailed explanation of any legislation or regulatory actions that may be required to implement the protocol or other agreement and should also be accompanied by an analysis of the detailed financial costs and other impacts on the economy of the United States which would be incurred by the implementation of the protocol or other agreement.
(B) would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States; and