Science journal “Nature” admits Kyoto failed
October 25th, 2007 by Brendan SteinhauserHat tip to Marc Morano on this one. Further evidence that the Nobel Peace Prize was more of a political stunt rather than a serious award. The case for carbon emissions is crumbling before Gore’s eyes.
It is time for a radical rethink on climate change, says a report in the journal Nature this week. Echoing sentiments long associated with politicians such as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President George Bush, the report says it is time to ditch the Kyoto Protocol because the United Nations treaty has “failed.” Not only has the decade-old treaty not delivered cuts in global emissions of greenhouse gases which 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.
Their commentary has top billing in the influential British science journal this week. ‘… as an instrument for achieving emissions reductions [Kyoto] has failed. It has produced no demonstrable reduction in emissions or even in anticipated emissions growth,’ reads a report in the journal Nature.
