Via Powerline comes this gem of a whopper
Under the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton, the United States joined a U.N. meeting in Kyoto and agreed to the protocol. But the United States rejected it under the administration of President George W. Bush, Clinton’s successor.
Please refer to the BS Meter in the previous post.
I have mentioned the pure lie inherent in the above excerpt many times. As Scott points out
Readers with a long memory may recall that the United States never adopted the Kyoto Protocol because the Clinton administration never submitted it for ratification to the Senate. The Clinton administration never submitted it to the Senate for ratification because in July 1997 the Senate voted 95-0 to adopt a resolution stating that ”the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto.”
It would be spectacular if the Big Media would include facts, rather then BDS. Also, for those with that long memory, the Democrats had control of the Senate in 1997, so these same Dems who complain about Bush nit signing Kyoto, which has been proven not to solve what its stated goals were, completely ignore what Democrats did.
A cute paragraph from Wikipedia
On July 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized (although it had been fully negotiated, and a penultimate draft was finished), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 95–0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States". On November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations. The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification.
Gore had no power to do that as VP, and did not make the US a signatury.
Some climahysterics like to make a big deal out of the Resolution being passed before Kyoto, not quite sure what their actual point is, but, hey, anything for some climahystericy. Notice the first sentence, though.
