Just A Quick Correction on a Climate Change Story

When the AP writer in this story wrote:

The U.S. — responsible for about one-quarter of the world's greenhouse gases that scientists blame for global warming — rejected the 1997 Kyoto protocol, a U.N. treaty that requires 35 industrial nations to cut greenhouse gases by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

The Bush administration argues the Kyoto protocol would hurt the U.S. economy and objects that high-polluting developing nations like China and India are not required to reduce emissions. Instead, the White House says it is spending almost $3 billion a year on energy-technology research and development to combat climate change.

One is left with the impression that the Bush administration rejected Kyoto, when it was the Clinton administration that rejected it. The only one to "symbolically ratify" the treaty, after it was unanimously rejected by the Senate, was Al Gore himself. That second paragraph should read:

The Clinton administration administration argued the Kyoto protocol would hurt the U.S. economy and objected that high-polluting developing nations like China and India are not required to reduce emissions.The Bush administration continued the Clinton policy, and now is spending almost $3 billion a year on energy-technology research and development to combat climate change.

I'm always glad to help out the Associated Press. Seems like they need it more and more these days...