Russian scientists still negative about Kyoto protocol

... but the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov (a mathematician) has signed the pro-Kyoto letter to G8 over objections of Russian climatologists. Looks like he was in a hurry to sign it before the official Academy panel on climate change could convene. Still, the panel calls on him to withdraw his sign.

What bothers me most in all this Kyoto business is the number of tricks that Kyotoists use to achieve their goal.

When they replace all the references to carbon dioxide or CO2, which everyone knows as the natural product of organic life, with 'greenhouse gasses' or, to make it more scary, 'greenhouse pollutants', it's a kind of propaganda newspeak that makes me deeply suspicious of every Kyoto proponents' word, including 'a' and 'and'.