Kyoto accord was dumb 12 years ago -- and it's dumb now

Kyoto accord was dumb 12 years ago -- and it's dumb now | John Snobelen | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun: "The folks who created the protocol not only wanted to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, they also wanted to create a new global currency and a new economic world order. The protocol didn't limit itself to environmental standards. It sought to address social change by punishing the rich and helping the poor.

Think of it as the Environmental Robin Hood Protocol.

The problem with this sort of Robin Hood thinking, as Margaret Thatcher once observed, is sooner or later you run out of rich people to rob."