We aren't blocking! We're just dragging our heels!

BBC has the headline: US 'blocks environment progress.' Damn that Al Gore! Now everybody is pointing at the US for its massive pollution problems:

Germany's environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, says the United States has blocked progress on two key issues to protect the global environment.

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Ministers stressed that the meeting had shown that there was a good deal of consensus on the scale and nature of the problem of climate change - but a lack of agreement on the tools to tackle it.

The BBC's Matt McGrath in Potsdam says there was a widespread acceptance that sustainable economic development had to go hand in hand with efforts to cut emissions of carbon dioxide.

But disagreements surfaced over specifics such as extending the global system of carbon trading, one of the central planks of any proposed deal to curb emissions.

According to one delegate the United States was "not subtle" in its opposition to carbon trading, and to another proposal that would pay developing countries to preserve rainforests.

Great. Now when somebody's topsoil does this:

Or somebody's car does this:

The world will wish to personally thank the United States....