text: This brings me to the second main pointthe fixation with the Kyoto Protocol, or what I call, to borrow Churchill's phrase about the disarmament chatter of the 1930s, the prolonged and solemn farce of the Kyoto process. The original Kyoto Protocol of 1998 is set to expire in another few years, and the global climate campaign is desperately wedded to the goal of crafting Kyoto II at climactic negotiations in Copenhagen at the end of this yeartalks which it is widely expected President Obama will attend. The first Kyoto Protocol of 1998, which even a President Al Gore would not have attempted to implement in the United States had he become president in 2000, has generated the greatest mass hypocrisy since the Kellogg-Briand Pact promised to end warfare back in 1928. I have little doubt that in 10 or 20 years we are going to look back on Kyoto process as the climate policy equivalent of wage and price controls to fight inflation in the 1970s. The Kyoto approach has utterly failed to achieve its first stage goals; European claims to have complied with Kyoto depend on some bookkeeping gimmicks that would have embarrassed Enron.