The Flawed Treaty that is Kyoto

The Kyoto Protocols--the extremist, anti-business and unsustainable Kyoto Protocols--have been a thorn in the side of GWB since his first year in office. Watermelon Dems (Green on the outside, red on the inside) will use this or global warming in general as ammunition during any discussion concerning Bush and the environment.

Finally, saner voices are being heard and the real effects of Kyoto; enormous costs with little benefit, no viable way to ensure compliance and dubious science supporting the entire global warming theory, are being exposed to the public.

Miranda Devine has a good piece in the Sydney Morning Herald about the image tarnishing of scientists who go against the wishes of the Greens:

Proof of just how free a pass has been given to the global warming doomsayers came in the recent demolition of a hitherto unquestioned mathematical cornerstone of their theory. The so-called "hockey stick graph" published in 1998 by University of Massachusetts geoscientist Michael Mann became an article of faith, and underpinned the Kyoto Protocol. It purported to plot average surface temperatures of the Northern Hemisphere for the previous 1000 years. Temperatures appear to remain constant until 100 years ago when the graph takes a sudden upturn, supposedly showing the Earth heating up as the industrial revolution kicks in.
It took six years and several sacked scientific journal editors before doubt was thrown on the hockey stick. Last year Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick discovered a fundamental flaw in the computer program which produces the hockey stick. It seemed, whatever random data it was fed, the program almost always produced a hockey stick.
The Canadians couldn't get their work published by a scientific journal but they put it on the web for all to see.