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Commissioner Margot Wallstrom insists that the Kyoto Protocol is “the only existing effective international framework for combating global warming.”  This questionable argument—<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Kyoto neither exists yet, nor has any scientist claimed it would yield a detectable climatic impact—is a curious example of a statement designed to ensure its own truthfulness.  The entire “Kyoto industry” regularly cite it to shout down any proposal to break the obvious impasse over this unratified “global warming” treaty.  Should any such alternative emerge even for discussion, it would pull a bottom card from the delicate rhetorical house this cadre has constructed.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />