by Allan Taylor

Created on: July 01, 2009   Last Updated: January 02, 2010

No. This is the short answer, in my opinion.

The global climate agreement referred to is the Kyoto Agreement which is under review. Its future extension will be considered at the UN Conference on Climate Change to be held at Copenhagen in December, 2009.

The bone of contention with the Americans is that being the largest producer of greenhouse gases, it must submit itself to any stringent reductions in emissions agreed upon, whereas the developing nations such as India and China, are presently exempt until a certain per capita emission rate is reached, equivalent to a higher level of industrial development.

In other words, the developing nations have successfully blamed the "global warming crisis" on the US and the developed Western World, because in achieving their high standard of living over the past 100 years, they are almost solely responsible for this environmental crisis concerning rising levels of atmospheric CO2, that they promote.

The developing nations rightfully ask why their industrial development should be curtailed by Kyoto Agreement restrictions on emissions when the problem, as outlined by the West, has been caused by the West in the first place.

The developing nations have a sound argument. This is a major factor in preventing a new global climate agreement and extension of the Kyoto Protocol. The matter will be thrashed out at the Copenhagen Meeting.

The problem would seem to be insoluble within the existing state of reference, or by the currently used small system analysis. One has to resort to the ideas of that famous American thinker, Edward de Bono to resolve matters and so find a new pathway ahead. A much larger system is required to be studied to arrive at a sensible solution to the problem. Most likely by doing so, the problem will be found to be nonexistent, or just a figment of the imagination of a few religious environmental fanatics.

It is necessary to go back to basics and analyze all the propositions used by the Kyoto enthusiasts and decide whether they "hold water". They have a great propensity for changing the meaning of words from their long accepted meaning used in the scientific literature.

The prime example is their loose and incorrect use of the word "pollution". According to Kyoto the atmosphere is being "polluted" by man-made greenhouse gas emissions, predominately CO2, which they say causes global warming and is harmful to the future of mankind and the planet.

My dictionary defines the verb "pollute" as "destroy the

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