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The Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, which has been endorsed by the Clinton-Gore administration, would require the United States to reduce its energy consumption. This would be achieved by, for example, taxing fuels like oil and coal. This would make U.S. goods more expensive and less competitive with goods from places like Mainland China, which need do nothing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The result would be the transfer of even more U.S. manufacturing jobs to a hostile foreign power.
Global warming is either a threat or it is not. If it is, all nations must participate in curtailing their greenhouse gas emissions-- not just the United States, Japan, and Europe. So far, places like South America (which practices slash-and-burn agriculture; burning down rain forests to clear land) and China have shown that they do not take it seriously. The United States should not only refuse further participation in this treaty; it should repudiate and disown it.

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