text: For example, in March 2001, he rejected the Kyoto Protocol on climate change as "fatally flawed." For nearly four years, Europeans have acted as if Mr. Bush didn't believe what he said, or that they could apply enough moral suasion to change his mind. Won't happen. A smarter policy would have been to find a new approach to mitigating the possibility of global warmingone with a sounder scientific basis and a lower economic cost. Bribing Russia to join Kyoto is not going to sway George Bush one inch.