Opinion: In today’s pages: Reinventing Kyoto and the G-8 recap
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The editorial board writes at length about how to get a revised Kyoto Protocol back on track:
What’s needed is a new, improved version of Kyoto that brings India and China onboard and commits them to ‘grow green,’ but still leaves the tougher cuts up to those nations better able to make them, such as the U.S., Canada, Japan and Europe. A better treaty would scrap the unworkable carbon-trading scheme and instead impose new taxes on carbon-based fuels.
On the op-ed page, University of Michigan law professor Samuel R. Gross discusses the likelihood of false convictions, debunking conventional wisdom that the rate is far less than one percent. Columnist Gregory Rodriguez explains why moving away from family-based immigration isn’t the American way, and columnist Niall Ferguson recaps the G-8 summit and whether it should really be the G-11. TV writer and kids’ baseball coach Jeff Strauss pens a letter to his teams’ families.
On the letters page, readers react to the immigration bill impasse in the Senate. Santa Ana’s Dan Naber asks what’s on a lot of minds: ‘Is it going to be the same government as the one that can’t get a passport out in three months that will be responsible for enforcing whatever regulations come from an immigration bill?’