The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions…

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for…

— Tom Wigley

You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the…

— Osama bin Laden

“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if…

— Melina Marchetta

Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role…

— Kary Mullis

If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some poor countries…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives,…

— William Nordhaus

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to…

— Michael Meacher

We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and…

— Andrey Illarionov

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be…

— James Howard Kunstler

In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private…

— Jennifer Morgan

The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.

— James Hansen

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

— James Hansen

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas…

— James Hansen