No treaty will prevent global warming, says a key scientist who
believes manmade climate change is happening. That's bad news
for the United Nations' bureaucrats who are meeting in New Dehli
to conclude a treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Perhaps
instead of alarming the public about global warming, the
international "climatocracy" should sweat its own dim prospects.
"The fossil fuel greenhouse effect is an energy problem that
cannot be simply regulated away," wrote 18 scientists in the
Nov. 1 edition of Science. Notable among the authors is Tom
Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research -- a
longtime and prominent promoter of global warming fever. Wigley
et al. still maintain we're headed toward a major warm-up. They
claim unchecked greenhouse gas emissions -- primarily carbon
dioxide -- "could eventually produce global warming comparable
in magnitude but opposite in sign to the global cooling of the
last Ice Age." Such alarmism has been the political excuse for
the Kyoto global warming t