"'There's a question of national prestige involved,' said Pachauri, head of the U.N. panel that last year shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former President Al Gore."

Al Gore never was president.

"President George W. Bush pulled the United States out of Kyoto in 2001, saying the pact would hurt the economy and was unfair since it excluded big developing nations from committing to emissions cuts."

The U.S. never signed on to the Kyoto Protocol. Al Gore was the U.S. representative at Kyoto and advised AGAINST signing on. Clinton agreed and never bothered with it. This story is pure horse crap.