LOOK MA, NO HANDS! (via Jim Yates):

Where Credit Is Due (INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY, May 02, 2008)

"Isn't the U.S. an awful country?" a Labor Party member of the British Parliament said some years ago. "With only 5% of the world's population, it produces 20% of those terrible gases that are warming our atmosphere. How dare President Bush say he won't go along with the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol on global warming."

It was actually Bill Clinton, not George Bush, who was in power when the treaty was signed by Vice President Al Gore in 1997 and who neglected to send it to the Senate for approval. Maybe the Clinton White House decided it wasn't worth the effort since the Senate, recognizing a con game, had passed a resolution 97-0 saying it wouldn't ratify the pact unless developing nations had to follow it as well.

But even without the taskmaster of the Kyoto Protocol, the U.S. is doing a better job of holding down its greenhouse gas emissions than countries that were so eager — for politically correct reasons, of course — to be a party (see chart).

Imagine if we cared?

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 5, 2008 4:04 PM