Death of the Kyoto Protocol

The end is near.

The Kyoto Protocol, the world's only binding climate agreement, will soon expire.

The most important means to date of compelling industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions seems likely to become a mere footnote in history.

The current CO2-reduction agreements expire at the end of 2012, and there is enormous resistance to new targets.

The environment ministers and negotiators from roughly 200 countries, who will travel to Durban, South Africa at the end of November for the latest global climate conference, are a long way from breathing new life into the Kyoto process.

It seems that the public is tired of hearing of global warming catastrophes from climate scientists who allegedly use legerdemain in their analyses.