Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/21/2009 10:00:31 AM PDT by Signalman
WASHINGTON — With the clock running out and deep differences unresolved, it now appears that there is little chance that international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December will produce a comprehensive and binding new treaty on global warming.
The United States and many other major pollutant-emitting countries have concluded that it is more useful to take incremental but important steps toward a global agreement rather than to try to jam through a treaty that is either too weak to address the problem or too onerous to be ratified and enforced.
Instead, representatives at the Copenhagen meeting are likely to announce a number of interim steps and agree to keep talking next year.
“There isn’t sufficient time to get the whole thing done,” Yvo De Boer, the Dutch diplomat who leads the United Nations climate secretariat and oversees the negotiations, said late last week. “But I hope it will go well beyond simply a declaration of principles. The form I would like it to take is the groundwork for a ratifiable agreement next year.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I thought that I read all sorts of grim predictions that if all the countries in the world didn't reach an agreement in 50 days or two weeks or something and FIX THIS MESS then the world was going to blow up. Or burn up. Or some other disaster.
Locusts. Plagues. Fire and Brimstone. Dogs and cats living together.
Indeed, "The most critical meeting of our time" or somesuch was the way it was referred to.
You mean they were wrong? Heaven forbid.
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