Floods and other outlandish weather in Europe are finally driving home the
message about global warming—just as the besuited delegates from 180-odd
countries meet for next week’s global warming conference in The Hague. But the
well-intentioned hordes are in for a shock: the protesters who ransacked
Seattle, trashed burger joints and coffee shops, and lit up Prague like nobody
since the ’89 revolution are planning to join in.
The conference is intended to “write the rulebook” for the Kyoto Protocol
on curbing emissions of greenhouse gases, agreed three years ago at the previous
eco-shindig in Japan. You can watch…
