or any other treaty of that type and that's coming from an organization that does not support kyoto or has serious reservations about a cap and trade regime. >> some treaties argue that if the u.s. joins the convention we'll lose jobs. does the chamber of commerce agree with that? >> no. if you expand the economy, and many of our jobs in the future come from mining, energy and trade and this clearly is a treaty that will enhance that, not detract from it, and i believe that as we have said publicly, not only about this treaty, but about the whole energy mining and other issues, these are where a lot of the jobs in the future are, and i think they'll create jobs. >> anyone else want to comment on that? >> senator, surely, it will be a job creator and let me add one other anecdote and the keystone excel pipeline. a lot of people don't realize that the keystone excel pipeline has 2400 companies from 49 different states. we've only not found someone in the state of hawaii that's involved in the keystone excel pipeline development. so when you look at energy infrastructure and energy inv

the kyoto protocol are going to run out at the end of this year -- the keel protocols -- the kyoto protocols. it looks as the climate protection will be unregulated. germany held this meeting of a kind of coalition of the willing -- 35 countries who are committed to protecting the climate and cutting co2 emissions -- to form a strong body before the cut are some -- the qatar summit. >> angela merkel came out saying much more needed to be done, but we heard her own government may not necessarily meet its own goals. is this a top priority, do you think? >> i think it is a very important issue. the german government was too ambitious in its goals. on the other hand, there's general agreement in german society, and that is reflected in all the major political parties, that we need to take climate change very seriously and reach as high a target as we possibly can, and that is across the major opposition parties. it is also in the business wing of angela merkel's own central right cdu party. >> thanks very much. or an example of what is at stake as the global climate changes, we visited mauritani

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. >> binding restrictions under the kyoto protocol run out at the end of this year. >> it will not be easy to reach a deal by 2015. is always tough when you have 180 countries trying to reach one agreement. >> still, the scientists and 35 government ministers at monday's conference hope they can make a new legal framework at the conference in november. >> we turn to sports now. the 15th stage of the tour de france. it was at the foothills of the pyrenees. he was in a breakaway group and meet -- and beat the american. but it was bradley wiggins retained the yellow jersey with a comfortable two-minute lead. >> and to soccer news now. the former anglin coach -- england coach fabio capello is taking over russia. >> the soccer federation confirm speculation about the italian appointment on monday. capello is waiting for moscow to work out the final details efore assuming his new post. he looked for new job early this year after he felt his authority was challenged. >> after the break, a new test that can tell pregnant women whether their unborn child has down's syndrome. we will look at so

these guys are from the prefecture of kyoto, the old japanese capitol. and they -- there is a death poem on there and that is blood right there. so i'm trying to return it back to the families as a gesture of peace and friendship between our peoples. >> and the mercury news so eloquently put it in an article about you, that why you are doing it. because these men, if you didn't kill them, they would kill you. >> yes. that's what soldiers do to one another. actually, it is nothing personal. but it is personal. but the thing is, that families suffer the same. their loved ones, they die. it is all the same. we are all human beings. i remember one annecdote during world war i, they had troops on christmas day. they got together and drank together and they were friends. and after the truce -- so we are all the same, basically. >> i want to keep talking about this in our next segment. charlie is from chusma house publications. maybe you can help him with husband publication and get him on the right track. >>> we are back here with charlie from chusma house pub

this school in kyoto is run by the japanese firm. the emphasis on meeting local needs has proved to be the key for the south korean company to succeed outside the country. in this class, primary school children all start with the alphabet. the school has put its own textbooks together since children in south korea have already learned the abcs in kindergarten. students in japan go to cram school about twice a week while korean students take a lesson every day. in order to get the similar results in less time, japanese schools condense the material to about 2/3 of the basic content and they add a self study part. >> translator: we hope to expand in vietnam, china and taiwan. by satisfying their local needs, just like we have done in japan. in these countries, people need to learn english, but don't have teaching systems that don't depend on native people. >> reporter: unique teaching methods born of the desires among south korean people to improve their english language skills are spreading throughout asia. reporting for nhk world. >>

handmade and, in fact, just recently rebuilt in the last 10-15 years by a group of craftsmen from kyoto that came over and rebuilt it. wow. >> this is a project that 3rd street and folsom called st. francis something corridor gardens. and this is a type of entrance where the entrance is the gap between the buildings, you know? quite deliberately developed, and near my office, i go by it all the time. probably in 20 years, i have seen three or four people go up the stairs. it must be some other, you know, elevator from the garage or something like that that everyone uses. and this serves a kind of symbolic function. i think that is not uncommon and i think we'll see other examples of that. >> it's odd because it's on the corner and it creates a leech from the street inward. i prefer closed corners. >> i think it's hideous. >> that is a whole other thing-- >> it's terrible. it has all of this junk and it has tremendously strong focus on nothing. and it's overly complex and then it's got all of this junk out on the street, what can we do? what can we do? nothing, huh? >> shall we not menti

the appearance of kyoto.and so, he took ideas that approach, but actually my impression was that the human rights envoy that was appointed really was not a major part of the picture in terms of the policy. now we have the obama administration, we haven't seen any refugees in the oval office, police in a human rights envoy that actually went to north korea and talked with the north koreans can i raise human rights that the north korean, even though that was probably relatively short conversation. where do you see as the merits and demerits of this approach is? >> guest: i think it's great the obama administration, human rights and robert king has been able to make a trip to the korea. two trips are more. i mean, i think that's great. the more we can open a dialogue with other users of issues the north, the better. admittedly part of what he was doing, as you know well, with straight to negotiate a humanitarian assistance package in terms of food more than human rights abuses. the fact that he was there is very

the trip covered kyoto, mount fuji and other tourist spots for about $600. the firm's chinese partner demanded that the cost be lowered by 80%. >> translator: the agency demanded that the price for a six-day tour be cut to $125 or even less. that big a cut is simply impossible. >> japan wants to attract visitors from china. tourism agencies says it plans urge the chinese governmt to allow japanese tr companies to operate in the country. >>> people in japan's northeast are focused on overcoming the challenges of the 2011 disaster. but it won't be easy. they have to rebuild homes, businesses entire communities. we'll show you their struggles and their successes on "the road ahead," every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time here on "newsline." >>> japanese prime minister yoshihiko noda has that sinking feeling again. a new nhk poll suggests his approv ratg isow and his disapproval rating is high. voters disagree with his plan to cover japan's debt and pay for its aging society. noda's approval rating is sitting at 27%. it's the lowest level since he took office l

kyoto would cost 2.4 million jobs and reduce g.d.p.by 2.4% and reduce the amount expenditure on primary and secondary education. -- reduce it by an amount of the total expenditure spent on primary and secondary education. the -- oh, yeah, let's talk about polar bears. i'm not sure my friend mentioned the polar bears so i'll skip that part. anyway, let me just say this, that it's become something that has been somewhat of a religion to talk about the -- what's happening and the world's come to an end. and i would just suggest that they're not winning that battle. in march of 2010, the gallup poll, americans ranked global warming dead last, eight out of eight environmental issues. that wasn't true ten years ago. ten years ago, it was number one, and everyone thought that and more people sit back and look at that time and study it. they decide well, maybe it's not true after all. in march of 2010, rasmussen, 72% of american voters don't believe global warming is a very serious problem. rasmussen poll at the same time. only the democrat ba

came to lack of interest in a congressional climate bill and lack of interest in the united nations kyoto but a job well done for president obama. >> more rigorous and basically obama is their best ally. >> i think he missed in a little bit of trolling. i do not think -- i think it is not quite accurate to say there's been total continuity between the administration's, even on negotiations, but that is the place where there has been the most negotiations. in terms of the international trauma. there's a much cleaner break domestically. part of the problem we see, and this is why the great civilization challenge of the times, is that climate is the ultimate collective action problem. you need states to get together, and everybody, particularly the wealthiest nations, those that have been responsible for already putting the most carbon in the atmosphere that have drawn out of the bank account the most, to take the hit, to say, yes, we will take the steps. precisely the framework increasingly happening. the people that are best equipped to lead the nation is the u.s., of course, the source of

with the kyoto protocol, signed by clinton in the mid-1990s and not ratified by the senate, states andons sued sing epa should be regulating greenhouse gases. it was just reaffirmed recently. the epa is responsible for issuing rules that would raise the cost of burning fossil fuels. if that happens, there be a shift of investment from these dirty and subsidized industries toward clean industries. these laws exist. this is to happen. the government to lead the way by saying, all of our news vehicles will be electric. we will set out a schedule for buying clean power for all of our buildings. the federal government is the largest single consumer of power in the economy. the private sector has -- it is sitting on more and invested cash. i'm not talking about bonuses or profits paid out, but many in the short term. if the government allow the epa to do with it must do, raise the price of burning fossil fuels, that would help direct private money into renewable energy and not put people back to work. in the face of this crisis, we a to think seriously and maturely and creatively about the r

or any other treaty of that type, and that is coming from an organization that does not support kyotod has serious reservations about a cap-and-trade regime. some critics have additionally argue that if the u.s. joins the convention, the chamber of commerce agree with that? >> no. if you expandfá the economy, and many of our jobs in the future are going to come from mining, from energy, from trade, and this clearly is a treaty that will enhance that, not detract from it, and i believe that, as we have said publicly, not only about this treaty but about the whole energy mining and other issues. these are where a lot of the jobs of the future are. i think it would create jobs. >> anyone else want to comment on that? >> clearly it will be a job created. i will just add one other anecdote and i'm raising a touchy issue here. keystone xl poplin. a lot of people don't release the keystone xl pipeline has 2400 u.s. companies involved in its development from 49 different states. we have only not found someone in the state of hawaii that is involved in the keystone xl pipeline development so i

>> well, it's going to sit out there for years like the kyoto treaty, they'll have a permanent fundinghanism, they're scheduleing conferences up to 208. this is a bunch of nonsense, america needs to know how bad it is. and if the glass breaks in your house at 2 a.m., the baby blue helmets of the u.n. are not going to save everybody. there's nobody who's going to save a citizen in that situation. what will save them is the american constitutional right to own a firearm. megyn: i always say guns are just like lawyer, everybody dislikes them until they need them. right? [laughter] not everybody, but a lot of them. >> great freedom. and when the u.n. attacks us, they're debating all of our founding fathers that understood what this freedom means to americans. megyn: so, wayne, are they going to hear you out? you will get your chance to testify? >> i'm going to go in and tell them this plan weakens our rights, cheapens our sovereignty and enables every tyrant, thug and criminal and evil government around the world. megyn: well, we'll see if syria gets up and walks out on you. >> they're goi

for example, andrew strauss -- a law professor very well-known -- states that u.s.jection of the kyoto protocol makes the united states the most logical first country target of a global warming lawsuit in the international forum. so i would ask along with my statement i be able to insert into the record the various legal entities that are rejoicing about the fact this they might be able to sue this country. now, lastly -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: lastly, i would say, madam president, that we -- i'm submitting a letter that is signed by 31 members of the united states senate stating that they will object to and vote against any ratification effort that would take place this year -- and this doesn't really restrict this to this year -- that would be 31 of them. and i have as a separate letter, a letter that is signed by senators portman and kelly ayotte stating essentially the same thing, and a statement in the web site of senator isakson and i was given permission to speak a position on behalf of lamar alexander that while he hasn't taken a position on the l

i wasn't -- years ago when the kyoto treaty was up i wasn't sure which way to go. i assumed the scientists were all together on this only to find out that they weren't but one thing we did find out when we got a report from several universities including m.i.t. that the cost of this if we were to pass any of the bills would have been between $300 billion and $400 billion a year. what i always do when i hear about billions and trillions of dollars i try to go back and figure out how does that affect my family in the state of oklahoma. about back when we had the largest clinton-gore tax increase, you might remember that, 1993, they increased marginal rates, death tax, capital gains tax and all of that. and it was at that time the largest tax increase in three decades and we've were all pretty outraged about it. yet that was a $32 billion tax increase. here we're talking about a $300 billion to $400 billion tax increase. in the last thing i would say is if you have a tax increase like this, what do you get for it? i sometimes appreciate -- in fact, i always appreciate