Who's Losing Face, Exactly?

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Tokyo's mayor has just joined the mass of politicians spouting off about the U.S. being "selfish" for not embracing the Kyoto Protocol — which is already a miserable failure, except when it comes to transferring wealth. Don't we know there is "face" at stake here?

Of course, as Larry Kudlow has noted on NRO, U.S. GHG emissions increased 6.6 percent since 1997, when Kyoto was agreed, compared with 18 percent for the entire world and 22 percent for the less selfish Kyoto countries.