text: There was never any prospect that the United States was going to agree to a treaty whose emissions reductions would have assured the acceleration of the relocation of American manufacturing industry overseasthis is why even the most green and liberal members of the U.S. Senate voted (by a margin of 95-0) for the Byrd-Hagel resolution in 1997 demanding that President Clinton not agree to a climate treaty that did not include developing nations such as China, India, Mexico, South Korea and Brazil in its emissions caps. But that is exactly the treaty that Al Gore brought back from Kyoto. And as of this moment it appears that Kyoto II will have virtually the same defect, though we can expect some fancy footwork in Copenhagen in December to try to dress up or disguise this fact.