The Express reports that former British deputy prime minister and current “rapporteur” on climate change for the Council of Europe, John Prescott, has doubled down on the Obama administration’s telegraphed desperation for a Kyoto II at any cost. Aspiring to be “the anti-Bush” turns out to be all the rage internationally, and if there were any doubt about Prescott’s alarmism being intended for American ears, he calls the statist agenda he wants to impose “the New Earth Deal.” Prescott says that Kyoto II must be agreed in Copenhagen, period, meaning at any cost. In fact, he says that doing so will be “ten times more difficult as Kyoto.” Which means ten times as costly.

Imagine what we would have to do if man really were causing catastrophic global warming?