Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Kyoto Treaty: Excessive Braying Leads to Attention Deficit

Kyoto's Walls Are Crumbling Down

Now what about the politics of global warming? The international climate conference in Buenos Aires, last December, has been a disaster for the Kyotoists. The US and Australia have repeated their refusal to join. Moreover, China, India and other G-77 countries have made clear that they will not accept any commitment to reduce emissions as from 2012, when Kyoto Mark I expires. More surprisingly, Italy has announced that it will withdraw from the Kyoto process in the same year. It plausible to assume that other European countries, particularly Russia, will follow suit
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In regards the current use of modeling projections by which activists for the 'good cause' cite near and imminent apocolypse:

Fred Singer referred to a nice quotation from the famous mathematician John von Neumann: 'With four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

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