Bring your old tires by to create some heat and love for our smart and powerful country! If you can't spare a spare just clean your basement cupboards of any old paint or aerosol cans and bring them by. The fire will be burning all night! Don't worry, if you get lightheaded or start to loose the ability to breathe, we'll have a chill-out zone set up in a fleet of Escalades (equipped with DVD players) idling in the driveway all night long.
Let's show the 140 nations, dumb enough to pass the Kyoto Warming Pact, that America is still the country to look up to!
Wed Feb 16, 7:09 AM ET
By JOSEPH COLEMAN, Associated Press Writer
KYOTO, Japan - The Kyoto global warming pact went into force Wednesday, seven years after it was negotiated, imposing limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases scientists blame for rising world temperatures, melting glaciers and rising oceans.
The landmark agreement, negotiated in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto in 1997 and ratified by 140 nations, targets carbon dioxide and five other gases that can trap heat in the atmosphere, and are believed to be behind rising global temperatures that many scientists say are disrupting weather patterns.
The United States, the world's largest emitter of such gases, has refused to ratify the agreement, saying it would harm the economy.
Greenpeace adds:
Then of course there was the biggest obstacle of all to an agreement - the United States. The Bush administration withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol in early 2001 but it didn't wash its hands of the negotiations. With the active support (some would say under the instruction) of the American fossil fuel industry and its well-funded front groups, the US government worked tirelessly to derail the treaty.
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