"but all the countries in Europe are up in arms about him rejecting Kyoto when not even *one* EU country has ratified it themselves"
If we ratified it after Bush said that you would not ratify it no matter what, our industry would suffer but not yours, and that would have been unfair to the industry and would have created big problems with ratifying it here (as well as worsening the economy).
The general opinion is that Bush destroyed it. If Bush had said yes, people would have ratified it, hence, he destroyed it. And since Clinton started the process, doesn't that make Bush an even worse bastard for stopping it?
Your points on not including China and India doesn't take into consideration that it is *not* the population of a country that decides. I'm pretty sure 300 million americans in cars are able to pollute much more than a billion chinese on bicycles (not a nyanced picture but you get the idea).
Personally I would like to see the EU ratifying it, screw our economy...we are starting to see effects on the heating over here now, northern europe gets more and more rain every year and southern europe gets more and more dried up every year. Our metrologs says it's the CO2, of course you are free to distrust that.
I don't hate Bush personally, I dislike american conservatives in general (I'm sure they are very nice as people, I just have other opinions). Bush must of course just do what the people (or the buisnesses?) decides.
The world would have been a boring place if everyone thought the same though.
