Kyoto Treaty

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The Bush crew is a total drag on the climate conference in Indonesia. But on our shores, a political wave of resistance to global warming is rising.
  • Kevin Rudd wastes no time

    And then there was one. In his first act as prime minister, Rudd leaves the U.S. standing alone as the only developed nation that hasn't ratified the Kyoto Protocol.
  • Bush's cold view of climate change

    Leading climate researcher Peter Goldmark says the administration is defying headwinds of progress on controlling greenhouse gases.
  • Chris Dodd pushes the energy envelope

    The presidential candidate is alone in calling for a carbon tax -- he says voters can "handle the truth."
  • Bill Richardson on greening SUVs

    The presidential candidate says there's no need for Americans to choose between their love for monster cars and saving the environment.
  • The earth thanks Kevin Rudd

    Australia's new prime minister promises to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Better late than never!
  • Trading over troubled water

    How much will you pay for the right to dump sewage?
  • Pulverize this!

    If an 8-year-old boy designed an incinerator...
  • Free-market environmentalism

    We're doomed, Chapter XXIV: The dark side of carbon trading.
  • Greenhouse gains, with no pain

    Exxon-funded propaganda calls Kyoto "economic suicide." Puh-leeez.
  • Mining for carbon gold

    The civilized world is starting to profit from pollution.
  • How greed will save the world

    Panning for gold in China's environmental catastrophes.
  • "A crisis of biblical proportions"

    A pro-Bush but eco-conscious evangelical launches a crusade against global warming.
  • Kyoto lite

    To make up for passing on the Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration devised an alternative -- a poorly defined international partnership with no limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, no funding and no clear goals.
  • A wimpier shade of green

    Why aren't environmental groups taking to the streets to protest the U.S.'s snubbing of the Kyoto Protocol?
  • On the right track

    New Republican leaders emerge in the battle against climate change.
  • Hot enough for you, John?

    Sen. McCain is sweating the Bush White House over global warming. Why didn't he support the candidate who would have done something about it?
  • Coal: Clean, green power machine?

    Forget about that nasty oil or radioactive nuclear waste: If you want to breathe fresh air, says the coal industry, burn, baby, burn!
  • Splitting airs

    Bush's latest clean-air proposals are better than nothing, but not by much.
  • Global trade = global warming

    Free trade may help struggling economies -- but the trucks and planes needed to move goods around the world will flood the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.
  • Adventures in smog trading

    A world market for buying and selling pollution credits is poised to take off and could be our best chance to stop global warming. Too bad George Bush won't let it happen.
  • Watson, come here, I want to fire you

    Angry at his predictions of global warming, the Bush administration and the energy industry strive to unseat a prominent scientist.
  • Pity the fool

    George Bush isn't mean, he just ain't too bright.
  • The powder puff girls

    My $5,000 night at the most exclusive geisha house in Japan.
  • The Colin Powell difference

    For Foreign Service veterans, the new secretary of state's openness is a welcome change from Madeleine Albright's snobbery.
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