Hurrah for Tony Blair, who took a slash at the over-inflated tires of the regulation-happy environmentalist crowd.(The Week)(Brief article)

Hurrah for Tony Blair, who took a slash at the over-inflated tires of the regulation-happy environmentalist crowd. At a Manhattan meeting with Bill Clinton and other big shots, Blair resolved to deliver some "brutal honesty" about the Kyoto Protocol and future efforts like it. He said, in short: There is no realistic future for treaties that attempt to curb global warming by placing stringent restrictions on carbon-dioxide emissions. The costs of such restrictions are astronomically high, and most countries will simply refuse to bear them--especially such countries as China and India, which have massive emerging economies ...