s top climate reofficial, said it would be physically impossible -- now this is the chief advocate of all of this. physically impossible. this is iron telecommunication say the least considering that president obama was supposed to bring all the parties together to transcend their differences and to produce a treaty that would save the world from global warming. but the reality of the cost of carbon reductions has intervened and now a deal appears as if it always has to me far from achievable. and we mustn't forget where the senate stands on global warming. as senators may recall in 1997, the senate voted favorably 95-0 -- 95-0. that doesn't happen often in this chamber. what was stated is if you go to kyoto, you bring back a treaty, and we will not ratify that treaty if it mandates greenhouse gas reductions from the united states without requiring new specific commitments from developing countries over the same clines period or, two, in serious economic harm to the united states. well, obviously we talked about the serious harm to the united states and the fact that there's no intent