Bush Stands by Rejection of Kyoto Treaty

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The rapture's gonna occur soon. Why should I give a shit about green house gas - G DUHbya

By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - President Bush is holding fast to his rejection of mandatory curbs on greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming, despite a fresh report from 300 scientists in the United States and seven other nations that shows Arctic temperatures are rising.


This week, a four-year study of the Arctic will document that the region is warming rapidly, affecting global climates.


Scientists project that industrial gases such as carbon dioxide will make the Arctic warmer still, which would raise the level of the seas and make the earth hotter. The world's atmosphere now includes about 380 parts per million of carbon dioxide, compared with 280 parts per million in 1800, according to scientists.


Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) signed the Kyoto international climate treaty last week, which puts it into effect early next year without U.S. participation. The treaty requires industrial nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases below 1990 levels.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=530&e=2&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_global_warming

[kwolf68]

1. Here we go

....This man is the most disgraceful environmental president in history. Even Nixon was good and Bush I wasn't overly bad. Raygun was shit, but he did ban ivory trade...but Ike was good and so was Teddy R.

There has been one absolutely horrific environmental President in history and he goes by W

[MatrixEscape]

6. Nixon ...

would be a Liberal by today's Neocon standards! Compare Bush to Nixon and woah!

[kwolf68]

7. LEFTY from hell

He signed the ESA as well. Hell, if he wasn't such a crooked bastard I'd love Dick Nixon to be Environmental Czar.

[tompea]

11. nixon signed EPA into existence 1972

you're right, take away all the shit..and he was actually ok..i lived through it and hated his evil..but hell...w and comopnay make the nixon gang look like kindergarten

tom pea

[AlCzervik]

14. Nixon was an amateur compared to these bastards

[Name removed]

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[Jazzgirl]

34. Hmmmmm....

:eyes:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

37. Kerry was the most pro Kyoto senator there was...WTF are you talking about

[atomic kitty]

38. This is what I am talking about.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 105th Congress - 1st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

SUMMARY AS OF:
6/12/1997--Introduced.

Declares 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 in December 1997 or thereafter which would: (1) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex 1 Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period; or (2) result in serious harm to the U.S. economy.



Vote Summary

Question: On the Resolution (s.res.98 )
Vote Number: 205 Vote Date: July 25, 1997, 11:37 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Resolution Agreed to
Vote Counts: YEAs 95
NAYs 0
Not Voting 5
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State

Alphabetical by Senator Name
Abraham (R-MI), Yea
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Allard (R-CO), Yea
Ashcroft (R-MO), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Yea
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Breaux (D-LA), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Bryan (D-NV), Not Voting
Bumpers (D-AR), Yea
Burns (R-MT), Yea
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Campbell (R-CO), Yea
Chafee (R-RI), Yea
Cleland (D-GA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Coverdell (R-GA), Yea
Craig (R-ID), Yea
D'Amato (R-NY), Yea
Daschle (D-SD), Yea
DeWine (R-OH), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Domenici (R-NM), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Faircloth (R-NC), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Not Voting
Ford (D-KY), Yea
Frist (R-TN), Yea
Glenn (D-OH), Yea
Gorton (R-WA), Yea
Graham (D-FL), Yea
Gramm (R-TX), Yea
Grams (R-MN), Not Voting
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagel (R-NE), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Not Voting
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Helms (R-NC), Yea
Hollings (D-SC), Yea
Hutchinson (R-AR), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Jeffords (R-VT), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kempthorne (R-ID), Yea
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerrey (D-NE), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Lott (R-MS), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Mack (R-FL), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Moseley-Braun (D-IL), Yea
Moynihan (D-NY), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nickles (R-OK), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Not Voting
Robb (D-VA), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Roth (R-DE), Yea
Santorum (R-PA), Yea
Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Smith (R-NH), Yea
Smith (R-OR), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Yea
Stevens (R-AK), Yea
Thomas (R-WY), Yea
Thompson (R-TN), Yea
Thurmond (R-SC), Yea
Torricelli (D-NJ), Yea
Warner (R-VA), Yea
Wellstone (D-MN), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

39. Typical response from someone that never watched the actual hearings

Kerry voted against that particular resolution because some of the wording in it was not strict enough against China and other developing nations. Throwing a piece of legislation up and taking it out of context is typical.

Nice try.

[DeadManInc]

2. kyoto treaty

I wish that the international community would make sanctions against the US until we get on board with the rest of the world on the environment.

[ogradda]

3. wouldn't want a little thing like global catastrophe

to interfere with american corporate profits would we?

[are_we_united_yet]

4. The

Environmental President

[Bjornsdotter]

5. Bush...

...is an ass!

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

[peekaloo]

8. yeah and 55 million still stand by their rejection of His Fraudulence!

[Blue_Tires]

9. undrinkable water and unbreathable air???

don't blame me!!!

[sakabatou]

10. Bush:

The things that really 'cause this here "Greenhouse Effects" are by those damn Green Party members and Green Peace... Hell I'll even throw in that St. Patrick's Day contributes to this "Effect".

And Logic has left the building...

[VegasWolf]

12. Saw Lady Laura running around grinning on TV saying that there is

no scientific evidence of global warming.

[sakabatou]

17. Hasn't she looked at the report?

Isn't that enough?

[coreystone]

21. I'm sorry Laura, but, you should keep your mouth closed until...

you a have a vague notion of what is being emitted. Try this "my name is Laura and George is my husband". PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD.................................................................................................

[Jack Schitt]

27. She was a teacher...

and she says this? I wonder what kinds of grades the students got in her class???

She must be dumber than I thought.

[robbedvoter]

33. Pickles learned science - she - librarian - knows stuff

Stem cells, global warming and leech blood letting! (dime bag selling too)

[Erika]

13. Amazing the GOP will doom their kids and grandkids....

but you know it is about profit.

[antonialee839]

15. gee what a surprise

[DuaneBidoux]

16. You are With us or Against us!! Oh, you want something? FU

[The Zanti Regent]

18. Why don't we ask the Presidential Prayer team to Pray for the enviromnent?

I'd love them to all mass in Florida as it sinks under water...

[pinniped]

19. Looks like all the other countries that signed it aren't worried about...

millions and billions of lost jobs.

[Spazito]

35. That's because they don't buy bogus reports....

the job losses are the 'bogey man' scare tactics brought to you by US corporations. It is just like the crap that HMOs spread re health care.

[MisterP]

20. James Connaughton, chairman of the WH Council on Environmental Quality:

"President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost."
Unless, of course, it's OUTSOURCING!!!!!!!

[n2mark]

22. My hearing must be leaving me

but didn't shrub say he did wonderful things for the environment during the debates?

[keopeli]

23. This is news?!

bush says he still believes in god.
bush says he still believes that getting rich is more important than preserving the land
bush says he still wants scalia to be supreme court chieg
bush says he still can't work with democrats
bush says yada yada yada

This is not news. This is propoganda to demonstrate unswerving resolve. That, too, is not news.

I imagine we'll be getting a lot of 'not' news in the future.

[nookiemonster]

24. Thanks Bush voters,

you've doomed us all. Way to go. -sarcasm off-

[daleo]

25. Jesus will save us from global warming

The laws of nature will be suspended in the nick of time. Praise God.

[Jack Schitt]

26. Who cares? At least them homosexuals can't marry!

:eyes: :grr: :grr: :eyes:

</sarcasm>

Seriously...in the next 10-20 years, we're going to have to walk around wearing gas masks so we can breathe. But do these members of the Third Reich (repukes) care? Hell no. :grr:

[NickB79]

28. Exactly, that's my new line from now on

Thanks to another DU member who originally said it, this is my new response for the next 4 yrs whenever anyone who voted for Bush complains about his screw-ups:

"Well, at least nobody got butt-fucked."

It's so versatile, see it's many uses:

"Agh, I can't believe how many hundreds of casualties we had in Fallujah. I thought Bush said the Iraqis would welcome us with flowers?"

Me: "Well, at least nobody got butt-fucked."

"Agh, we can't eat fish from lakes anymore, and our hunting land was clearcut. I thought Bush was for sportsmen and the environment?"

Me: "Well, at least nobody got butt-fucked."

"Agh, my job was just outsourced to India. I thought Bush said our economy was getting better?"

Me: "Well, at least nobody got butt-fucked."

I could go on for hrs with this, it's just that versatile.

[Ferretherder]

29. Beautiful.

n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Except, of course, the prisoners in Abu Ghraib

who were raped by the US Army and their mercenaries, on behalf of Bush and Blair.

[ydya]

32. Will you commie pinko infidel whiners stop it already with your

incessant bellyaching about the environment? Everyone know that the Rapture is coming any day now and the environment aint gonna matter worth a square shit. So quit wasting time whining about the environment and get busy sucking your friendly neighbourhood pastor's dick so you wont get left behind when the Rapture arrives.
Sheeeesh. Whaddaya gotta to to make the blind see the light?

PS: And send more money to Pat Robertson while you are at it. You think the "talking to God" phone calls are cheap?

[DS1]

36. America deserves Bush. The world does not deserve America.

[bamacrat]

40. Of course he rejects the Kyoto treaty hes owned

by big oil.

[VegasWolf]

41. Of course not! He owns the "voting machines". He's immune.