[Sam Cree]

The Europeans might as well sacrifice a virgin to the global warming god for all the good Kyoto would do.

Kyoto would theoretically lower the temperature of earth by between .06 and .1 degrees F. I forget how long it will take for that to happen, but it's awhile.

[colorado tanker]

Even if you accept that the Earth is warming, human sources of CO2 are so small in comparison to natural sources, and Kyoto would reduce such a small percentage of the human sources, that it's unlikely to have any substantial effect, as you say.

Kyoto is a pointless exercise.

And why wouldn't the British welcome having real summers for a change???

[rjsimmons]

Kyoto protocols, if everything went as expected, would reduce global temperature 0.1 degree celcius by 2100.