Kyoto - yeah rigghhht...

More fun and ganes from old Europe (as reported by the BBC) bq. Countries refusing to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases should face trade sanctions, according to a British independent think-tank. bq. The United States has not signed the Kyoto agreement on climate change and Russia has indicated it may follow. bq. The New Economics Foundation wants the EU to tax imports from these countries because they enjoy a competitive disadvantage as energy costs increase Ohkaaay - they are saying that we will not play their game so they are raising the prices they will have to pay for our own goods... Kyoto has some major flaws in it - the core data behind the basic model (the hockeystick graph) has been refuted by two Canadian researchers. The issue here is not global warming - we know this is happening. The issue is the cause of the warming. We left an era known as the Little Ice Age in the 1850's and the planet has been gradually warming since then. The Little Ice Age was preceeded by an era known as the "Medieval Warm Period" which covered the three previous centuries. Periodic fluctuations of this planets climate are well known and provable from plant (tree ring), glacial ice and sedimentaru deposits. This is a complex issue and there is no simple answer (CO2) and no simple solution (Kyoto)