Wake up people,the real threat to the environment is from the crazies with the nukes.

It is not getting better,connect the dots if you will.

stan kruger, Dryden, Canada On.

So they flew from all over the world, no doubt with small armies of advisers and flunkeys in tow and accompanied by tons of pointless paperwork, to talk about cutting emissions and saving the environment. Makes sense.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need a few vodkas before I'm able to run tonight's AA meeting...

Matt, London,

as long as our economies are based on growth with NO solution of a different approach - we will fail .
exploiting all available resources with no mercy - we will fail . feeding the overpopulated planet & rely on contaminated soils & waters - we will fail . in a limited world our systems & leaders are behaving dead wrong . the rich copy the french king - after us the deluge . NO money on this planet will buy you a one way ticket to another planet & remember you can't
eat golden eggs .
start NOW to live your life a little bit more modest .

walt, 70 mile house, canada / b.c.

I wish I could remember where hundreds of over-paid Gov' officials met back in the good old days of the 80's when we had an imminent Ice Age, but I don't think it was as attractive as Bali just before Christmas. This meeting is a junket - a wonderful excuse for the parasitic community to enjoy good food and hotel service.

The easiest, quickest and cheapest method of stabilising the planet's climatic fluctuations is to plant trees. Nobody needs to travel to an exotic location to do that.

Crispin Caldicott, Warkworth, New Zealand

If the Kyoto Treaty is so vital (though some would say yet another tool for redistributing the wealth), then why won't China and India sign it. Maybe it is because they realize that it is a costly boondoggle which if America has to pay for and support and they don't, then it will give them yet another competitive advantage. Canada is stll reeling from the financial impact vis-a-vis penalties for their carbon footprint.

russ miller, fort worth,, USA Texas

We must all thank our lucky stars that the US Senate, in 1997 - the time of Clinton not Bush, voted by 95 to 0 for a resolution opposing the proposed Kyoto Protocol. Had this not happened every political lemming would by now have rushed over the cliff.
Their well informed stand gives hope to those who believe that such change in climate as might be happening is just another cycle such as has been going on for millennia and that within the next few years we will actually be worrying abouth the cold.
Who will count the cost of the damage that is being done in the name of reducing carbon emissions - such as the species destruction and poverty that are already arising from the corrupt expansion of biofuels in the third world.

Philip Collings, Wallingford, Oxon