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Nature 450, 346 (15 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450346c; Published online 14 November 2007

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Kyoto: no time to rearrange deckchairs on the Titanic

John Schellnhuber1

  1. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PO Box 601203, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany

Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner, in their Commentary (Nature 449, 973–975; 2007), manage to be perfectly right and utterly wrong at the same time. Their criticism of the bureaucratic Kyoto Protocol is justified on many crucial points (although they don't mention that the physical impact of the protocol on the climate system would be negligible even if it worked).

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