Europe and global warming

The Heritage Foundation has a web memo that summarizes recent EU attempts to curb global warming. It describes a meeting in Poznan, Poland, to agree on the next steps after the 2012 goals set under the Kyoto Protocol which President Bush refused to sign (and which the Senate at one point rejected by 95-0).

Let's hope the Obama Administration takes note of Europe's failure to meet its targets under Kyoto. This failure occurred in large part because of the economic pain meeting those targets would cause; if the United States embarks on a similar path, it is likely to face the same prospect. Indeed, the United States has reduced its emissions more in recent years than have a number of EU member states - without Kyoto. Add to that the growing uncertainty over whether the earth is in fact warming or cooling, and it's definitely time to proceed with caution.