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Today, on February 16, the Kyoto Protocol...
to draft a successor to the Kyoto protocol. Apart from the usual squabbles and recalcitrance, the process saw provocations, false evidence, half-truths and pseudo scientific arguments. There was bribery, intrigue and idiocy. Minor mistakes made by some experts were exaggerated, taken out of context, and presented as evidence of inconsistency in the entire process and theory of global warming. Strange as it may seem, nobody refutes the reality of global warming as such.Nobody knows where we go after Copenhagen. Nobody made any commitments there. All limits are voluntary and are dependent on so many factors that they may well end up being ignored. The next climate change conference will take place in Madrid in the fall.
Perhaps the Copenhagen conference would have been a global success if it had been chaired by good old storyteller Andersen. It showed that one, two (the Kyoto meeting in 1997) or even a dozen climate change conferences cannot resolve the main issue
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