Kyoto Update from G8

Tony Blair took his turn as head of the G8 this year to put global warming and Kyoto on the table--along with an equally idiotic plan to send more money to corrupt nations in Africa. Bush was forced to sit there and listen to all this nonsense for 2-3 days. Here are the facts:
U.N. forecasters see one to two degrees of warming over the next century. Even if every nation that signed on to Kyoto followed it slavishly, the expected warming would be trimmed by less than one-fifth of a degree. Reading the newspapers, you’d think that humans were the sole source of C02, dumping huge amounts into the atmosphere. Not so. Human sources account for 0.3% of the total; the rest — 99.7% — comes from nature. Man simply can't compete with volcanos, for example. But what about all the scientists who have reached a “consensus” on global warming? Well, professor Dennis Bray of Germany’s GKSS Forschungszentrum recently surveyed 530 top climatologists — experts with the most direct scientific knowledge about warming. Just 9.4% strongly agreed that “climate change is mostly the result of (human) causes.” Nearly a third were described as skeptical, while 9.7% “strongly disagreed.” In short, there is no consensus. Not that those who pushed Kyoto were serious about it in the first place. As much as anything, Kyoto was a hypocritical attempt by European nations to impose global controls over the U.S. economy, and regulate it to death.
After excoriating the U.S. for failing to ratify Kyoto, they failed to follow it themselves. The European Union is supposed to cut greenhouse gases 8% by 2010. But the European Environment Agency recently reported that emissions increased 1.3% in 2003, and that 12 of 15 EU members are out of compliance. Nevertheless, the EU’s parliament in May called for trade sanctions against the U.S. for not cutting back its C02 emissions. It is hard to escape the consequences of bad science.