Fumbling Towards Bethlehem And U.S. senators are on hand to prove the delegation's point. An incredulous journalist at the press hearing, who identified himself as a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, rose to defend the true faith. Craig responded that five years ago he would have agreed. But I think there is now a coalescing of the science. Language like that leads some in the environmental community to think they might have a prayer of Senate ratification, albeit some time in the distance after the Europeans and Japanese go first and a deal is brokered with the Chinese and the Indians to bring them into the process.
Environmentalists are unwilling to surrender the Kyoto process.
And with that as the context, many American environmentalists and international scientists seem willing to go along with loopholes they admit are way too broad, simply to get the process underway. Yes it's a big change, but quite do-able, IMO, given several years in which to work at it. I'm not sure that's not incorrect. I've been playing around with some statistics, below. And the other conservations efforts that David Mac suggests.