Nearly half of U.S. residents who took part in a UPI-Zogby International
poll said the United States shouldn't ratify the Kyoto global warming treaty.
The agreement -- formally known as the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate
Change -- has been ratified by about 170 countries and governmental bodies
but the United States is not among that group.
Some 47.9 percent of the 8,182 U.S. residents asked said the United States shouldn't ratify
the agreement because it puts the U.S. economy at a disadvantage. The protocol would
ask the United States reduce greenhouse gas emissions faster than some developing
countries.
Another 35.4 percent of respondents said U.S. leaders should ratify the Kyoto Protocol
and 16.7 percent said they weren't sure.
The Zogby interactive poll was done June 15-18 and carries a margin of error
of 1.1 percentage points.
