
The cynics report that this was because of America's selfish love of gas-guzzling cars. Hmm. Possible, I suppose.
Unfortunately, America has fallen for the con, look at this link: http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/
These others are also quite revealing:
http://www.climateaudit.org/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/henry.tsmith/garbgate/item2/ccrook5.htm
http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/4035/29/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/04/eaclimate104.xml