Les Jones

Environment > The Kyoto-Carbon Disconnect

Mark Steyn:

At the recent climate jamboree in Bali, the Rev. Al Gore told the assembled faithful: "My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here." Really? The American Thinker's Web site ran the numbers. In the seven years between the signing of Kyoto in 1997 and 2004, here's what happened:

• Emissions worldwide increased 18.0 percent;
• Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1 percent;
• Emissions from nonsigners increased 10.0 percent; and
• Emissions from the United States increased 6.6 percent.

Here's the American Thinker story, with a link to the U.S. Census numbers. The data only goes through 2004, but a year or two ago U.S. carbon emissions descreased a few percent from year to year. That story sure didn't get much attention.