25 October 2007

Kate and I don't always agree...

But I love the pithy commentary...
"Warmer winters, wetter summers, and now - deader rodents."

"I'm failing to see the downside in this."
Not to mention her uncanny ability... to always drill down to the shiniest nugget.
"The only folly more profound than the notion that mankind can 'change the weather', is the folly that argues that we can change it back."
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RELATED: "Scrap Y2Kyoto", says science journal "Nature"
A report in an influential science magazine says it is time to forego the Kyoto protocol because the United Nations treaty has failed to bring about any significant action on climate change.

Not only has the decade-old treaty not delivered cuts in global emissions of greenhouse gases that continue to soar, but it is the wrong tool for the job, say Gwyn Prins of the London School of Economics and Steve Rayner at Oxford.
The article also explains why the Liberals... and Steffi in particular... were so enamored with the airy-fairy protocol...
Kyoto is a "symbolically important expression" of governments' concerns about climate change, they say. "But as an instrument for achieving emissions reductions it has failed.

Their commentary has top billing in the British science journal this week.

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