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U.S. angered by Martin's climate comments
It is not clear that the United States would have agreed to participate in new climate talks in any case, said the official, but chances now have been reduced to zero.
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Those chances were already zero.
They have as much commitment to Kyoto as I have to learning Korean, i.e.,
zero.
The Bush-Cheney junta made excuses to back out of Kyoto
after pretending to play along for appearance's sake.
They never planned on signing in the first place.
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They also say the international effort will be doomed without the participation of the United States, which accounts for about a quarter of global greenhouse emissions.
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It's worse than you think.
The US has been using a loophole in the system to avoid cutting
greenhouse emissions -- I'm not sure if this makes sense, but
every represented country has certain amounts it has to reduce by.
So a collapsed economy like Soviet Uzbekistan can say, "well,
our greenhouse emissions have dropped by six percent...because
we don't have an economy left."
The US then
buys that 6% and applies it to their own "quota,"
in exchange for what I don't know. It's like instead of cutting
their gas emissions, the Bush-Cheney junta is increasing their
"credit limit" of allowable emissions.