Word: kyoto
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...Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove is supposed to keep the President in a healthy political glow. But on one key issue recently, Rove stood by while Bush turned as gray as a hazy day in Houston. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty, suspended new arsenic standards for drinking water--and began to look suspiciously like the eco-villain Al Gore warned us about. Moderate Republicans were getting jittery. So last week Rove and other aides pulled out the green paints and brushes and set to work on Bush...
...never a party to the Kyoto treaty, so we cannot pull out of it. As you pointed out, four years ago, the Senate voted 95 to 0 not to participate. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is certainly correct in saying no one should be surprised that the U.S. won't be abiding by Kyoto. ROBERT E. MCNULTY San Jose, Calif...
Your coverage of global warming and the White House's opposition to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to cut carbon dioxide emissions was heartening [SPECIAL REPORT, April 9]. George W. Bush's decision is just the latest and perhaps the most serious in a string of setbacks on environmental issues that have come out of Washington. Bush and his colleagues should realize that without clean air and the right temperature to support life at all levels, a healthy economy won't be possible. Truly, our economic health depends on environmental health. JUDY MATA Hemet, Calif...
...strong case can be made that global warming is science fiction masquerading as fact. The Kyoto treaty would bind the U.S. to reduce "greenhouse gases" 7% below their 1990 levels by 2012. If the U.S. followed that provision, it could result in considerable price hikes for gasoline and a huge increase in electricity bills for most Americans. Global warming is a theory based, at this point, on speculative science, imprecise computer models and a lot of doom-and-gloom rhetoric. Despite what Chicken Little politicians claim, the scientific case is tenuous, at best. JOY LATHERS Colorado Springs, Colo...
There is a lack of common sense in the global-warming debate. To reverse the warming trend, we don't just have to return to pre-1990 levels of greenhouse-gas emissions; we have to go back even further. The Kyoto Protocol was obsolete when it was drawn up. Without action, the rate of global warming will not be linear but exponential--the rate at which the planet is warming is increasing. We must control global population and cut back drastically on fossil-fuel use. From a global-warming perspective, the only light at the end of the tunnel...