Bush was Right to Reject Kyoto Treaty

Ha! According to Forbes Magazine, Bush shouldn't feel so bad about all the criticism for not signing the Kyoto Treaty. I found this story on newsmax. Apparently, the Kyoto treaty seemed like a good idea at the time, but now that the time has come to cut emissions, the awful truth is sinking in.... In order to cut emissions, you must cut growth!

Even Britain’s Tony Blair, a supporter of the protocol, seemed to admit defeat for the treaty when in a recent speech at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, he conceded: "No country is going to cut growth” – which is the only known way to cut emissions, according to Forbes.

Oh, but that's not even the best part! It seems that while the European nations were too busy complaining about us not signing the treaty, they were'nt paying attention to their own emissions.

Ironically, even western Europe is not reducing emissions. According to the protocol, western European nations must reduce their emissions to levels 8 percent lower than those of 1990. But in the years since the treaty was negotiated, carbon dioxide levels increased by 7 percent in France, 11 percent in Italy and 29 percent in Spain. Overall, the increase for western Europe was 5.4 percent.

"After many years of European chatter about the monstrous evil perpetrated by George W. Bush in rejecting Kyoto,” Forbes concludes, "it is of possible interest that the increase in carbon emissions in the U.S. during those years was slightly lower (4.7 percent).”

Those who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.