Writing in Reason, Ronald Bailey offers this cautionary bit with regard to worldwide environmental treaties:
How costly is the Kyoto Protocol? Estimates vary, but a recent analysis published in Science this past November concluded that adopting the Kyoto Protocol would cost the United States as much as $125 billion annually. In addition, Worldwatch activists well know that Kyoto is just the first cut, because the reductions mandated by that agreement would decrease potential global warming by an undetectable one-tenth of a degree centigrade over the next century. To stabilize carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would require that fossil fuel consumption be reduced by 70 to 80 percent.
Related: Antarctic ice sheet is growing (via Heretical Ideas)
What you mean that my teachers and profs aer lying and there is no global warming and Kyoto is not a good thing. If you buy into this, you apprently have not been teaching too long!