The Kyoto Global Warming Treaty will lead to massive increases in the cost of gasoline, heating oil and food, and will cost millions of American jobs. As a result, America's standard of living will be significantly downgraded. It will also undermine recent reform of farm programs and threaten U.S. agricultural production. In addition, major developing nations like China would be exempt, which will not reduce worldwide emissions.

• The equivalent of a 25-cent-per-gallon gas tax would be needed to meet the imposed restrictions. (The US Commerce Department)
• With that hidden tax, U.S. net farm income would be slashed by 24%. (The American Farm Bureau, 12/97)
• Production costs for commodities would rise significantly due to the higher energy prices: corn production costs by 15.5%, soybean production by 13.7%, cotton production by 12.7%, wheat production by 13.4%, hog production by 4.9% and milk production by 3.8%. (American Farm Bureau, 12/97)
• The rise in energy prices would cost each household approximately $2,000 a year. (Economist William Nordhaus, Yale University)
• Carbon taxes will cause relatively large income losses in the poorest one-fifth of the population. (Gary W. Yohe, Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University)

A new UN bureaucracy would manage resource allocation on a global scale, with the U.S. being forced to shoulder a larger burden than other countries.

• China flatly refused to join, telling Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) that it would accept no limits within the next 50 years.
• Germany is likely to meet its reduction objective because the re-unification between East and West Germany resulted in the shutting of factories and whole industries in the former East Germany.
• Great Britain will likely meet its goal because it destroyed its coal industry and reduced it with natural gas for the North Sea.
• The U.S. conceded to UN bureaucrats some control over U.S. agriculture and forestry policies.

US Military will be restricted as dictated by the UN.
U.S. treaty negotiators caved in on the issue of exemptions on energy use for our military. This means the UN will dictate when and how certain military maneuvers can be carried out, and how much fuel can be used.

• Only overseas military actions approved by the UN would remain exempt as would training and combat in international waters.

It is any wonder why, according to a Gallup Poll, only 17% of the members of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union believe greenhouse gasses are overheating the planet?

There is no concrete evidence that global warming is taking place. If global warming is taking place, it is not certain that the cause is human activity rather than natural climatic change. Even if it was taking place, it is not at all certain that an effective way to deal with it is by imposing high-cost restrictions on the U.S. as prescribed under the Kyoto Treaty.

Al Gore pushed U.S. negotiators to get a treaty so that he will have a high-profile issue to exploit for his presidential bid in 2000.

• Global air temperatures as measured by land-based weather stations show an increase of about 0.45 degrees C over the past century. (Accu-Weather, the world's leading commercial broadcaster)
• Satellite data indicate a slight cooling in the Earth's climate in the last 18 years. These satellites use advanced technology and are not subject to the "heat island" effect around major cities that alter ground based thermometers.
• Although the climate has warmed slightly in the 100 years, 70% of that warming occurred prior to 1940, before the upsurge in greenhouse gas emissions from industrial processes. (Dr. Robert C. Balling, Arizona State University)
• 98% of total global greenhouse gas emissions are natural (mostly water vapor); only 2% are from man-made sources. (Dr. Robert C. Balling, Arizona State University)
• Only 17% of the members of the American Meteorological Society and the Geophysical Society think the warming of the 20th century was the result of an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. (Gallup survey)