Let's not confuse politics with reality. Congress is not a scientific body.
In fact, during the Clinton Administration,  just BEFORE Clinton (or
rather his acting ambassador to the UN) signed the Kyoto Treaty, the US
Senate, in a vote of 99 to 0,  passed a resolution that it would NOT
ratify the Kyoto Treaty as it then was written.  Of course, Clinton
never submitted it to the Senate for ratification because he knew it
would be defeated overwhelmingly. So what, other than politics has
caused the Senate to change its mind?

I am put in mind of a line from the great movie "A Man For All Seasons"
Sir Thomas More says:
"There are some who believe the earth is flat, there are others who
believe the earth is round. It is a matter for question.
But if the world is flat, will the King's command make it round. And if
it is round will the King's command flatten it?"

Congress saying that something is so, doesn't make it a fact.

Chuck



Joe Fjelstad wrote:

>Senate Amendment 866, Sec. 16 was adopted after being submitted by Sen.
>Bingaman for himself and Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA), Pete Domenici (R-NM), Lamar
>Alexander (R-TN), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), Frank
>Lautenberg (D-NJ), John McCain (R-AZ), James Jeffords (I-VT), John Kerry (D-MA),
>Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
>
>(a) FINDINGS. - Congress finds that -
>
>(1) greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere are causing average
>temperatures to rise at a rate outside the range of natural variability and are
>posing a substantial risk of rising sea-levels, altered patterns of atmospheric
>and oceanic circulation, and increased frequency and severity of floods and
>droughts;
>
>(2) there is a growing scientific consensus that human activity is a
>substantial cause of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere; and
>
>(3) mandatory steps will be required to slow or stop the growth of greenhouse
>gas emissions into the atmosphere.
>
>(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE. - It is the sense of the Senate that, before the end
>of the first session of the 109th Congress, Congress should enact a
>comprehensive and effective national program of mandatory, market-based limits on
>emissions of greenhouse gases, that slow, stop and reverse the growth of such
>emissions at a rate and in a manner that -
>
>(1) will not significantly harm the United States economy; and
>
>(2) will encourage comparable action by other nations that are major trading
>partners and key contributors to global emissions.
>
>
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