It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.

The Kyoto treaty ... has no scientific foundation

Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe.

It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.

We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation. In addition, it certainly violates the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens, and well as the rights and freedoms of citizens in those countries which signed and ratified it.

...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.