Round Two:
Theeeeeeyyyyyyre heeeeerrree!

ok, I mentioned this when it first came out, and I apologize, i handled it in a very cynical way--

But now they're back for more Beyond Kyoto! Everybody say Ho! ...and while Condi was going to go and attend the six-nation Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate next week, she canceled, and now Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky will be attending. And she must be pleased as punch. I know I know, she looks it, that's for sure!

The meeting will be the first for the partnership, which includes Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea along with the United States and was set up under an agreement last July. ((Woah! Slow down there...)) and Undersecretary Dobriansky must be excited! And she certainly knows the party line, stating at least 4 times how this agreement (BTW "agreement on climate",not on climate change) will be going "beyond kyoto." Seriously, she said it in every possible combination ("we're bringing innovations to take us beyond kyoto"... "we come not with an effort to circumvent the Kyoto Protocol, but rather to complement it with action that goes beyond the treaty", blah blah blah...), and it leads me to ask just one thing: Why exactly, if they have no problem going beyond Kyoto, could they not sign Kyoto? Or maybe not actually sign it, maybe just stop trying to derail it at every chance they got? I mean if they come to praise Kyoto not bury it... OK well anyway, it's interesting to see what Greenpeace's take is on this: apparently there are no new innovations, except of course for the meme 'beyond kyoto.' Thanks heavens for PR flacks...