Now Here’s a Surprise

Anyone shocked by this?

The Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse emissions is "ineffectual" and the world should prepare for the effects of climate change, the nation's biggest general science meeting will be told tonight.
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"Adaptation policies have had far less attention than mitigation, and that is a mistake," says Miss Cairncross. "We need to think now about policies that prepare for a hotter, drier world."

As no one is meeting their Kyoto targets, of course it’s not having much effect. As even if they did it would delay the warming by 6 years after a century, no Kyoto is not the answer.

Mitigation, adaptation are.

Despite the arguments about the mix between renewables, nuclear and fossil fuels, the bottom line is that, "with present technologies, no combination of existing energy sources can conceivably bring about the reductions in energy use that we need, or at least, not without a disruption that is politically unimaginable".

Quite, despite the protestations of the various eco-fascists who would see us return to a (never existent) nirvana of Morrisite localism, people simply will not put up with the decline in living standards that would entail.

Looks like Lomborg was right then. Climate change is happening, Kyoto is not the answer. Develop new technologies, yes, adapt and prepare, yes, and note that the world which will actually have to deal with it, a century and more into the future, will be much richer than the one we have now and thus more resilient (please note that the warming models are in fact predicated on the idea that the world in a century will be much richer. If economic growth stops so that it is not then the warming will be less than currently predicted).