Irrelevent rules for an irrelevent treaty...

Can't anybody in the press be somewhat skeptical of this?

Delegates have approved a rule book for the Kyoto Protocol at a United Nations climate change conference in Montreal.

Rules defining how Kyoto will proceed were outlined in the Marrakech Accords in 2001, and adopting them was a major achievement of the Montreal conference, according to delegates.

"This is a victory for the citizens of the world," Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew said Wednesday.

The accord gives teeth to the Kyoto Protocol, making it "one of the most powerful treaties ever negotiated by any multilateral body," said Steve Sawyer, an expert on climate and energy policy for Greenpeace International told CBC.ca.

The rules spell out how emissions will be reported and verified, and give industrial nations credit if they help developing countries produce clean energy.

They also set out the terms for emissions trading, which means countries that produce too much greenhouse gas can buy credits from those that are under their limit.

"You go to a carbon broker and you say, 'I want to buy a hundred megatons of carbon. Can you find partners to offer me that?' And the carbon brokers will go around, just like they're shopping for money or a car," said delegate Bill Hare, a member of Greenpeace International.

And is the US, China, India, South Korea going to abide by these so-called 'rules'? Do they really expect that Canada will make massive payments to countries like Russia so we can feel better about our nightly 'emissions'???