Comfort from Jeremy Rifkin. It's just as well Jeremy Rifkin is there to comfort us when we get the impression Europe is not effective enough. In the past he eloquently defended the idea that Europe was leading the way in climate change and the energy revolution, and he is now defending Europe again, even more resolutely in his disenchanted comments on the conference organised by the United Nations in Bangkok, a conference whose conclusions were woefully inadequate in his view. As usual, he...