The Kyoto treaty, that chart says it all about this country. If the Kyoto protocol was implemented, would it reduce global warming if it were a proven fact? The answer is ``no'' because it would only restrict emissions in our country. It has minimal impact in Europe and all of the developing countries that are stealing our manufacturing, like Mexico and China, who would not be living up to any agreement. They would be doing nothing. So we would be pushing manufacturing out of a country that has the best pollution control equipment in the world, taking that manufacturing to parts of the world that have little or no control over emissions, and would actually be adding to air pollution in the world. The Kyoto treaty was not written by a friend of the United States. It is probably one of the worst documents signed and brought back to this country because it would destroy our economic base. If global warming was a fact of life, it would do little or nothing.
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Discussing the implications of the Kyoto treaty on U.S. manufacturing and emissions.
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