ABSTRACT
Spare a thought for climate scientists. On our backs rode the heroes of the 1992 Earth Summit and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which set international targets for cutting back greenhouse gas emissions. This month, governments will meet again, this time in The Hague, to finalise details of how the Kyoto Protocol will work. Many of the delegates gathering there will tell you that the climate scientists have completed their tasks. It’s time, they’ll say, for us to turn off our supercomputers, put away our temperature charts and go back to measuring the weather.
