Marc Morano, CNSNews.com
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNSNews.com) - After a relentless attack on the United States for opposing the Kyoto Protocol, environmental groups concede the international treaty will have no impact on what they believe to be impending catastrophic global warming.
Despite the fact that green groups at the U.N. climate summit in Buenos Aires called President George Bush “immoral” and “illegitimate” for not supporting the Kyoto Protocol, the groups themselves concede the Protocol will only have “symbolic” effect on climate because they believe it is too weak. Kyoto is an international treaty that seeks to limit greenhouse gases of the developed countries by 2012.
“I think that everybody agrees that Kyoto is really, really hopeless in terms of delivering what the planet needs,“ Peter Roderick of Friends of the Earth International told CNSNews.com.
“It’s tiny, it’s tiny, tiny, it’s tiny,“ Roderick said. “It is woefully inadequate, woefully. We need huge cuts to protect the planet from climate change.“
But just because Kyoto may end up having little or no impact on the climate, that did not stop Roderick from blasting President Bush for the White House’s environmental policies.
Roderick cited “deep psychological reasons” as to why the Bush administration opposed the Protocol.
“[Bush] comes across as not caring,“ Roderick said. “I am sure he does care in his own life personally about many things, [but] I think also that he is scared, he is fearful, he is fearful about wanting to continue in power.“