The European Union has already accepted the Kyoto Protocol, and we are being pressured to join. In 1997, our Senate votes 95-0 to oppose the treaty. Now the presidential candidates are talking global warming. I doubt that a Democratic Congress will continue to resist.

Charles Krauthammer, in a recent column, quoted the Czech president, "that the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism is the largest threat to freedom, democracy, the economy and prosperity."

The first phase of Kyoto's emission reduction requirements is estimated to cost $716 billion. You guessed it, two-thirds to fall on the U.S. supposedly because we're the world's worst polluter. China, India, South Korea and Mexico will not be required to join. Even with that estimated cost, what would it achieve? Even the U.N. computer formula says global temperature by 2050 would be equivalent to .05 degrees centigrade, or 1/20th of a degree. How insane is that?

Let's look at the facts about warming. Environmentalists and the so-called intelligentsia want you to believe the 100s were the hottest ever. Wrong. The hottest in the past century was actually the years between 1920 and 1940.

Studies show for thousands of years there has been warming and cooling of our universe. During the Roman rule, there was the Roman Warming period. This spurred vine-growing from Italy to northern Europe. Warmer period are notorious for better crop production. Following the Roman Warming, there was a sharp cooling period followed by the Medieval Warming, which lasted 400 years.

The global warming players of today use computer formularies and only deal with the years 1943-1970 basically. Based on this and not science they want to control our every way of life.

The IPCC, the U.N. panel on global warming, says there is a consensus and the matter is settled. They ignore any scientists who say this is not a crisis or even anything unusual, but a normal cycle occurring. Is this arrogant, or what?

In the 1970s we were told we were in the beginning of an ice age. The likes of James Hansen predicted all kinds of dire things which never occurred. Indeed, the climate began to warm again in the 1980s, so the rhetoric changed to warming.

NASA says that the 20th century was actually slightly cooler.

Since Great Britain joined the Kyoto Protocol, consumers are paying 7 to 12 percent more for electricity while electric companies are enjoying a windfall profit of 1.3 billion. Indeed, the cap-and-trade scheme is very profitable.

Mr. Al Gore, a multimillionaire of save-the-earth fame, is chairman of a British company called Generation Investment Management. He is cashing in on the multimillion-dollar carbon offset boom.

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