The Kyoto Protocol

The Greenhouse effect is a good thing, it keeps the Earth warm and habitable not a frozen wasteland. There is a such thing as of too much of a good thing. Ever since the industrial revolution, our greenhouse gas emissions have gone up dramatically, the CO2 content in the atmosphere has also been at its highest in 650,000 years. In 1997, the Kyoto protocol opened for signature, since then 169 countries or government entities have signed the protocol (as of Dec. 06). It requires participating developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is one thing that I'm not happy about: the US not ratifying the Kyoto protocol. The US has in fact signed the treaty, but it is purely symbolic. At the time, Vice President Al Gore and Senator Joesph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations.^[reference] This I really don't understand. Why would the Senate wait for developing countries. The US is among the top-2 contributors of greenhouse gas emissions (the other being China, a developing country) and they still refuse to ratify the Kyoto protocol. It's wrong, very wrong.