Minorities would be especially hard-hit. A report commissioned by six African-American and Hispanic organizations concludes that the treaty would reduce the earnings of black and Hispanic workers by 10 percent and throw 864,000 blacks and 511,000 Hispanics out of work. An equally important argument against the Kyoto treaty is the mounting scientific evidence questioning the impact of human behavior on climate change. NASA weather satellites, the most accurate measurement of global temperature, indicate that the Earth stopped warming more than 20 years ago. Soho satellite show that the Sun, not Man's burning of fossil fuels, is the main cause of the global warming that occurred between 1850 and the mid-20th century.
Many environmentalists now agree that the Kyoto treaty is simply unrealistic.
Some environmentalists are conceding that the treaty is unacceptable for those very reasons. To download the 2000 edition of our National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims, click here.