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As a practical matter of politics, nobody knows what Kyoto is or what it commits us to. The Kyoto Protocol is a political solution to a non-existent problem without scientific justification. Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that Maurice Strong, Senior Advisor to UN Secr-General Kofi Annan Consensus is the business of politics. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. Until a continuous climate observing system is established, both climate models and observations will remain uncertain. We can no longer absolutely conclude whether globally the troposphere is cooling or warming relative to the surface. We only understand 10 percent of the climate issue. That is not enough to wreck the world economy with Kyoto-like measures. Henk Tennekes, former research director, Dutch Royal Meteorological Institute The minute you begin to believe your own hypothesis, you're a dead duck as a scientist. We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of Timothy Wirth, Clinton Administration Under Secretary of State Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming, they have a I would freely admit that on global warming we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy. I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits...Climate change provides the greatest chance Skepticism is the highest of duties, and unverified belief the one unpardonable sin. Some people will do anything to save the earth. .. except take a science course. We have to offer up scary scenarios (about global warming)....each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective