Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change…

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

— William Nordhaus

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

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have…

— Hans Blix

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the…

— Eileen Claussen

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

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

— Andrey Illarionov

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

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

— Enric Sala

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all…

— Christopher Flavin

The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

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

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