It may come as a surprise to some people newly interested in the Hope and Change of politics, that the American response to the Kyoto Protocol has been consistently negative stretching back to the second term of Clinton. Before Bush (for an explanation of this Series please click here) "rejected" the Kyoto Treaty it had been decidedly tabled for lack of support.
In 1997 the Senate voted 95-0 to adopt a resolution stating that ''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.'' Given that result, presidnet clinton wisely refrained from signing the treaty and submitting it to a vote.
So Before Bush was president, the senate unanimously and bipartisanly rejected Kyoto as an nonviable treaty. By the way, since then the USA has made more progress towrd reaching targeted reductions in greenhouse gases than any of the signatories to Kyoto. And Bush was the first president to build and occupy a sustainable green home.
