The Kyoto Protocol is failing because it is ineffective, costly, and unfair. It is also "scientifically flawed" and not needed. It is likely to be replaced by other treaties and regulations to limit the use of energy and restrict economic growth. Such developments must be attacked with a strategy that uses both science and economic analysis.

S. Fred Singer will also comment on the film The Day After Tomorrow by Roland Emmerich, released in Belgium and France on May 26th.

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S. Fred Singer , an atmospheric physicist, is professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, and the president of the Arlington, Virginia-based Science & Environmental Policy Project, a non-profit policy institute. [SEPP is an association of working scientists concerned with providing a sound scientific base for environmental policies.] He has held several academic and governmental positions, including being the first director of the US Weather Satellite Service (now part of NOAA), deputy assistant administrator for policy of the Environmental Protection Agency and, most recently, chief scientist of the U.S. Department of Transportation. He has invented instruments to measure atmospheric parameters from satellites and was first to point to and calculate the human-based production of atmospheric methane, an important greenhouse gas and source of stratospheric water vapor. He is author and editor of a number of books, including Global Effects of Environmental Pollution (Reidel Publishing Company 1970), Global Climate Change (Paragon House 1989), and Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate (Independent Institute 1997 and 1999).

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