By Bill Jamieson LET US not burst into tears because the climate conference in The Hague ended without agreement.
Climate change remains one of the most hotly disputed areas of scientific inquiry.
The evidence on global warming is dogged by controversy. There is no consensus on whether a sustained, secular deterioration in the global climate is under way, still less is there agreement on the extent to which human activity has contributed. Equally, there is no agreement on how a regime of national curbs on greenhouse gases would work over time, or a set of measurable outcomes for each target proposed, so that the effectiveness of targets could be monitored. We have every cause to welcome more considered legislation. This may rob some of the emotional satisfaction of beating up on America just because it is the world's biggest economy.