Looking to the Kyoto Treaty, even without participation of the United States, to whittle away at global climate change? Don't count on it, the Christian Science Monitor reported in an eye-opening story about the hundreds of new coal-fired power plants being planned in just three countries -- China, India and the United States. If they are built, the 850 projected plants would represent a "tidal wave of greenhouse-gas emissions" from the three nations, which aren't covered by Kyoto's emission restrictions, according to the article. The new power-producing infrastructure would "pump out enormous amounts of CO2 for the next six decades," the Monitor reported. One federal climate modeler told the newspaper that if the plants start operating by 2012, "it completely cancels out any gains from Kyoto."

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1223/p01s04-sten.html