United States senators believe that a rich country like the United States should take no leadership role unless poor countries like India and China have taken equal responsibility. I can't believe that 95 United States senators really believe that. I mean, if you believe that, then you would have to say that we have embarked on an incredibly selfish view of leadership. NARRATOR: In the two years since Kyoto, nothing has happened. Facing certain defeat, the White House has not even submitted the treaty to the Senate for ratification. FRED PALMER, Western Fuels Assn, Inc.: There is no chance of Kyoto being ratified. We are not going to do it as a society. The notion of reducing carbon dioxide emission levels in the United States 7 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2010 is a complete fantasy. NARRATOR: While the Senate and the White House are stalemated, what do the American people think - and what do they know - about global warming? HANK C. JENKINS-SMITH, University of New Mexico: People in general tend to know relatively little about this question. They know that auto emissions or coal emissions generate greenhouse gas in fairly large percentages. But there's an enormous amount of confusion, as well. Our own studies show that 50 percent of the populace, approximately, would attribute some global warming cost to nuclear energy, for example, which is kind of a scary finding in this particular context. NARRATOR: Hank Jenkins-Smith is a political scientist who studies public opinion