"Way, Way Beyond Kyoto"

Dubya does it to the left again, this time the watermelon brigade:

In a surprise move that caught Europe's smug moralists and the environmental movement's noisy extremists flatfooted, the United States announced in Vientiane, Laos, last week that it was joining five other nations - China, India, Japan, South Korea and Australia - in a new pact that offers a refreshing and effective alternative route to tackling the problem of climate change.

Wait'll you get a load of the details. They're just too sweeeeeeeeet....

[T]he new deal was negotiated and settled without the involvement of the United Nations or the European Union - a clear message from the United States that multilateralism does not have a single definition. [emphasis added]

That wrinkle alone enhances the chances of this deal actually accomplishing anything (beyond the economic collapse of the West) multifold.

Ditto this one:

[T]he agreement comprises countries that account for 45% of the world's population and about half the world's economic output and greenhouse gas emissions, mainly carbon dioxide, implicated in raising surface temperatures. More Asian countries may soon join the pact.

Since neither Red China nor India - two of the biggest generators of greenhouse gases given their state of economic and industrial development - were signatories to the Kyoto Protocol, their inclusion in this arrangment has to be considered a major coup.

But I saved the best part for last:

[I]t takes a pro-growth approach to combating the possibility of global warming in the century ahead. The new Beyond Kyoto agreement focuses on innovative technology as the antidote, not only to carbon-dioxide emissions but also to dirty air and economic deprivation. The very first statement in the pact is: "Development and poverty eradication are urgent and overriding goals internationally."

That's a stark contrast with Kyoto's preference for hard CO2 targets, met through government directives, to reduce energy use. [emphasis added]

Targets, I might add, that the EUnuchs aren't even trying to reach.

I misspoke above - this is the best part:

Many professional environmentalists, for whom Kyoto is a matter of religious fervor, are disarmed and dismayed. "There's really nothing new here," said Jeff Fielder, an analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York.

Fielder is right in one respect. The Bush Administration has been quietly signing bilateral agreements for technology sharing for years now. But Vientiane is, absolutely, a new comprehensive approach to climate, and the Greens don't want to acknowledge its clear validity. "I think this is aimed at complicating the Montreal talks," Fielder added, referring to the 11th annual conference on global warming four months from now.

It's as El Rushbo has always said: environmentalists are simply chlorophyl Marxists. They don't give a rat's ass about flora or fauna or the "ecosystem" or global climate; all of those things are just means to the end of global socialism and the raping and pillaging of the planet's economic engine, the United States.

And with "Beyond Kyoto," the barbeque jockey from Crawford, Texas has exposed them as the pinko hypocrites they've always been.

While the children of the left whine, preen, gibber, and posture, the adults of the right are getting things done.

Maybe there's a method to voter madness after all....