Japan backs away from Kyoto

And so it begins.

Kyoto projects harm ozone layer

This is just one of the reasons the US, under Bill Clinton, rejected Kyoto.

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)"