At 09:44 AM 6/21/01 +0300 Charlie Bell wrote:
>> Its a bilateral arrangment between the US and the Russian Fed. Moreover,
>> the treaty expressly provides for withdrawal on six months notice.
>>
>> That definition would be assinine.
>
>Thanks John. Just as assinine as starting a new arms race?
No, it is assinine to develop a classification system for the 190+
countries of the world with primary criterion that only applt to two of
those countries.
>> I think actions speak louder than words,
>
>An action like, for example, ratifying it? Leading by example? You're always
>going on about non-ratification of Kyoto by Euorpean nations, what about
>this? Quite a few countries *have* ratified it.
No, ratifying is simply words. For example, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have
ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. I consider their
actions far mroe enlightening than their words.
As far as Kyoto goes, only one European nation has ratified it - Romania.
Not a single industrialized nation has. If, on one hand, the Europeans
were basically implementing Kyoto, without ratifying it, that would be one
thing - and they would be justified in their criticisms of the US. On the
other hand, not ratifying Kyoto, not implementing Kyoto, indeed, not even
*talking* about how they might implement Kyoto leaves no other conclusion
but that of hypocrisy when they criticize the US on this issue.
JDG
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