Kyoto is dead let it be buried

SHOWING what a skilful politician he is, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his role as president of the G8, managed to simultaneously read the burial service for the Kyoto Treaty while declaring the corpse still breathed.

In a sense, though, he is right. The issue of global climate change and how to deal with it is still very much alive. What is dead is Europe’s attempt to impose its highly regulated socialist model of climate control on the rest of the world, striking a calculated economic blow at the US in the process.