> On the same day that the "clear skies" announcement was made, the US and the UK agreed to undertake a series of below-ground nuclear tests in Nevada.

Environmental issues, expecially when they mix with politics, deserve some kind of deep discussion (not now! It's 11.20PM and I'm sleeping on the keyboard...).
Some facts happened in Europe and other happened in Italy since the last Sixties should be a lesson for all the politicians that support environment-friendly industry and for all the chemical industries that put their profit above environmental problems.

> Bo"how many of you support the Kyoto agreement? How many of you have read it and thought about its consequences?"urne

In my opinion, I'm not going to support it in full, but also not going to reject it in full... I'm uncertain.
What's bad is that the Kyoto agreement restarted the discussion about nuclear power plants in Europe (I've seen an article just yesterday on a local newspaper, but I haven't still read it).
As a sidenote, Italy dismissed all its four nuclear plants after a referendum in 1986 (some months after the disaster in Tchernobyl, USSR) and is paying a huge debt with France and Switzerland, from which buys electrical power.