Monday, September 10, 2007

US - Kyoto: The AP rewrites history

again.

"Under the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton, the United States joined a U.N. meeting in Kyoto and agreed to the protocol. But the United States rejected it under the administration of President George W. Bush, Clinton's successor. "


In fact, it was rejected in 1997 under the Clinton administration.

"(1) 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--"


The vote under the Clinton administration? "(Passed by the Senate 95-0)"

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