No, there is no need for the US to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. It is best to do nothing for global warming is a non-problem.
I think that the Kyoto Protocol will soon self-destruct and hopefully be no more after the year 2010. The idea of reducing man-made emissions of greenhouse gases, notably CO2, with the view of preventing global warming and climate change is no longer a credible theory today.
Science has marched on leaving behind the climate change alarmists wallowing in a sea of embarrassment. They still insist that man-made CO2 emissions cause global warming, but now they call it climate change, which they say includes both warming and cooling. They stumble to explain the nonappearance of global warming during the last decade. Even if there was a mild global warming this would be more beneficial to mankind than any cooling effect.
The Kyoto Protocol is an example of bad science producing bad policy which when enacted results in bad outcomes. The US is wise not to commit itself to any targets concerning a reduction of CO2 emissions. Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant but a harmless trace gas vital for the growth of all living things.
Why allow your country to be economically devastated by unnecessary climate change policies such as an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) which has been tried and failed dismally in the EU? An ETS is better called an “Extra Tax System” or an “Emissions Trading Scam”. The Kyoto bureaucrats are all for it so as to continue their lucrative global warming bandwagon.
Both China and India are exempt from gas emission targets for reason they are developing industrially and have a low per capita level of emissions, compared to the US and EU. China is currently the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases but will soon exceed that of the USA. This exemption granted to China, plus the scientific uncertainty of the whole climate change issue and the certain harm to the economy, are some reasons why recent US governments have sensibly not submitted the treaty to Congress for ratification.
Slowly but surely we citizens of many countries are seeing what the Kyoto Protocol really is … a scam of immense proportions promoted by mainly EU politicians and the radical environmental movement. The Greens are promoting Kyoto as a means of moving towards their Utopia of a decarbonized world running on renewable energy which is unachievable fantasy.
The whole idea is best rejected unless you crave for the living standards of the Middle Ages. Kyoto is simply the means for the United Nations and the Greens to establish a totalitarian eco-state of global proportions.
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