ABC REWRITES KYOTO HISTORY


In a story concerning the EU's exasperation with American and Australian rejections of Kyoto, the ABC lays the blame squarely on Bush:

The Kyoto Protocol is the only international agreement to set a target of reducing carbon pollution.

But the treaty has been almost crippled by the absence of the US, which abandoned the treaty in March 2001 in one of President George W Bush's first acts in office.

The Clinton administration's efforts to weaken Kyoto and its refusal to present the treaty to Congress are ignored, of course.