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The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol. -- Enric Sala
The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process. -- Laurent Fabius
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. -- Bjorn Lomborg
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming. -- Brian Mulroney
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance. -- Goran Persson
Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart. -- Vikas Swarup
Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter. -- Andrew Card
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. -- Bjorn Lomborg
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. -- Christine Todd Whitman
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. -- David Hockney
When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy. -- John F. Kerry
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong. -- Ted Kulongoski
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way. -- Hans Blix
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most. -- Roman Coppola
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. -- Graham Joyce
Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto -- Matsuo Basho
...the Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance... -- Jacques Chirac
I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto. -- Henry L. Stimson
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship. -- Hanya Yanagihara
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it. -- James Hansen
Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog. -- Stephen Harper
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum. -- Larry Ellison
The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware. -- Noam Chomsky
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan. -- Richard Dawkins
For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace. -- Jacques Chirac
I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action. -- Barry Sternlicht
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Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. -- Fred Thompson
The Kyoto treaty ... has no scientific foundation -- Andrey Illarionov
The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy. -- William Nordhaus
Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol. -- Stephen Harper
Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve. -- David Suzuki
I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on. -- Hermann E. Ott
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world. -- P. Chidambaram
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. -- Andrey Illarionov
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 UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol. -- Al Gore
In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection. -- Charles Krauthammer
Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades. -- Tom Wigley
The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has becomeâ??or else scrap it and get ready to start all over. -- Christopher Flavin
If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets? -- David Suzuki
It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere. -- Eileen Claussen
The laws of physics are not about to change. Set your agenda by what's happening in the atmosphere, not by what is happening in the artificial world of Kyoto. -- Ross McKitrick
The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round. -- Andrey Kapitsa
Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down. -- Nigel Lawson
The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements. -- Andrey Illarionov
Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September. -- Ally Carter
You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries. -- Osama bin Laden
An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world. -- Jennifer Morgan
Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses. -- Thomas Schelling
We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on. -- Bill McKibben
When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist. -- Nancy Pelosi
Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting definitions of carbon sinks, and so on. If this happens, the credibility of the international process for addressing climate change will be at risk. -- Henry Sylvester Jacoby
Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions. -- William Nordhaus
With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into effect leave such a small window of time before the first commitment period that achievement of the Kyoto targets will eventually pass out of reach. -- Henry Sylvester Jacoby
Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious,... -- Margot Wallstrom
It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. -- Eric Stoltz

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