Kyoto Completion

The New York Times > International > Europe > Final Step for Kyoto Pact to Take Place at U.N.:

"United Nations officials said that the final step leading to the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol, the first treaty restricting heat-trapping pollution linked to global warming, is scheduled to take place Thursday, when Russian officials deliver ratification papers signed by President Vladimir V. Putin to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. The handoff will take place at a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council in Nairobi exploring the conflict in Sudan. After President Bush rejected the climate treaty in 2001, the only way for it to gain sufficient support to take force was with Russian participation. Only four industrialized countries have not ratified it: the United States, Australia, Liechtenstein and Monaco."

If only I'd read it, to know if Bush's explanation that it wasn't stringent enough had ANY truth to it. I'm of the opinion that he's just being anti-conservationist, but who knows? Knowledge is power and I haven't got it on this one. I certainly like the IDEA of the KP a lot. How would it work in practice? And is it a sort of environmental League of Nations, DOA without US support, despite Russia's late rally to the cause?