Kyoto - what's it good for?

Better question - is anyone going to meet the targets?    Via Yahoo:  Canada, Japan, Europe failing on Kyoto Protocol targets: UN report

 

This lends a lot of weight to the idea that Kyoto's real goal all along was to try and limit the US economic growth, and never about environmental idealism.  Not to mention that even if Kyoto was fully implemented, and China and India not included, the net benefit would be less than one degree difference in "global warming" - maybe.  Perhaps that's too low a rate of return on hundred's of thousands of jobs and economic stagnation...