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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

U.S. Alone Among Industrialized Countries

No, this isn't about torture.


From National Geographic News:
Australia Signs Kyoto Protocol; U.S. Now Only Holdout

By Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia
Associated Press
December 3, 2007


Australia's new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the paperwork Monday to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, making good on an election promise that will leave the U.S. isolated among industrialized countries in shunning the international global warming pact.

The dramatic step just nine days after Rudd was elected looked likely to send Australia's standing soaring at international climate change talks that started Monday in Indonesia and to intensify pressure on Washington to join the Kyoto framework.

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