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The Kyoto Treaty Deserved to Die.

The American Enterprise

| September 01, 2001 | DeMuth, Christopher | COPYRIGHT 2001 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Why we should think more and clamp down less on global warming.

President Bush's firm rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change put the final nail in the coffin of a doomed project. By 2012, the agreement would have required the leading industrial nations to reduce their "greenhouse gas" emissions to levels below 1990 totals (regardless of population growth and economic transformations in the various countries), and would have exempted China and other developing nations entirely (despite the fact that their growing emissions would have swamped the reductions from the developed nations). Long before President Bush acted, this approach had been rejected by ...

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