BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | How can climate treaty be strengthened?

"Environmentalists have attacked US claims that America is doing as much to curb global warming as nations that have signed the Kyoto Treaty.

The US refuses to join the Kyoto Protocol because, they say, it is politically-motivated and would threaten economic growth."

Well, almost. It's not the US as a people that refuse Kyoto but rather the current Bubba administration and its cronies. Nonetheless, it's not a good image for the US to project in the world -- that of being a Bubba nation!