"There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions," writes Bjorn Lomborg, the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. "Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation," he writes.

"This does not mean that we should ignore global warming. But it does raise serious questions about our dogmatic pursuit of a strategy that can only be described as breathtakingly expensive and woefully ineffective." According to Lomborg, "the Kyoto approach is going nowhere If we are serious about helping the world's worst-off inhabitants, we are going to need to rethink our approach completely" (12/15).

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