A lot of folks have placed a lot of faith in the Kyoto Protocol, despite the blindingly obvious fact that it’s a total failure.  Since it was signed in 1997, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase virtually unabated.  Here’s the situation between 1997 and 2004:

Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.

The US, despite refusing to sign, has outperformed Kyoto signatories.  Go figure.

Says Professor Emeritus Phillip Stott,

Here we have, yet again, unequivocal evidence that ‘global warming’ is the ultimate faith without works.

Pope Benedict XVINow the pope is taking on the false prophets of climate change.

Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.

The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that fears over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.

The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it was vital that the international community based its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement.

Public policy should be based on science instead of dogma?  Hold on a minute: That’s pretty radical.

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