The Kyoto treaty was agreed upon in late 1997 and countries started signing and ratifying it in 1998. If we look at that data and compare 2004 (latest year for which data is available) to 1997 (last year before the Kyoto treaty was signed), we find the following:

• Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.

• Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.

• Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.

• Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.

In fact, emissions from the U.S. grew slower than those of over 75% of the countries that signed Kyoto.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/12/kyoto_schmyoto.html

We may not have grown our emissions as fast but we're still the largest producer. China is catching up...

We should have just signed it and gone through the motions like everyone else...

hmm, George Bush - global warming hero...

That's cold - the guy lives in a house any tree hugger would be proud to call home, the US outperforms 75% of the Kyoto signers, and still he gets no enviromental love...tragic...

If you researched what "in force" meant in the text of the agreement you would realize your comment is nonsensical. Signatories of the treaty certainly weren't waiting for the in force provisions to kick in before they began the task at hand. The failure of the signatories to live up to the treaty exposes it for what it really was. Further more, even if the reductions outlined in Kyoto are met (which they won't) the impact on the actual temperature of the earth over the next century would be so negligible as to make it one of the most ineffective and wasteful treaties from a cost standpoint ever conceived. It's just another example of bad government in action.  The fact that non signers out performed those who did sign must give even you cause for reflection.

The worlds problems are so big and complex that no government or  government policy in consultation with the other can solve them. The  only thing that gives the means and the solution of the human race to  survive beyond this century, Oregon-STEM complex and its associated  global satellite Incubator Centers. In fact, if the leading scientific  minds of the world, the concert can not do it, no politician or others  can. It is so simple. The problem is, of course, that politicians do not  listen to the independent mind and voice.

Those who have followed the debate on Global Warming of manmade are very aware that every time the Intergovernmental Panel  on United Nations Climate Change issues another statement is, the media  report the bad news to each hour on the hour. But what if a scientific  study concluded that new data from the IPCC chosen in CO2 levels in the  past to make it appear that current levels are extraordinary. What the  report of the media?