Consequence Quote by Tom Wigley

The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health at risk.…

— Lawrence B. Lindsey

With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

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

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

— Laurent Fabius

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

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

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

“Models are models - and the real world is different. For example, for the last three years the world economy has grown significantly, but…

— Carl Pope

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 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

The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity…

— Andrey Illarionov

Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions…

— Robert O. Mendelsohn