Copenhagen Climate Talks: Why They May Fail

This is Climate Week here in New York City, so if you have been swept up in the excitement over Hugh Jackman's lending his celebrity to the cause of averting a catastrophic greenhouse effect ("people in developing countries have contributed the least to climate change and are suffering the most from it," he said at Monday's opening ceremony at the New York Public Library), or President Obama's speech at the United Nations Tuesday warning of “irreversible ... Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
3.6
by Jack Dinkmeyer - Sep. 24, 2009

Solid journalism, which depending on your politics, is either good news or a douse of cold water. Meaning if you’re expecting anything of real substance, forget it. Also meaning Senator Murkowski’s proposal to exclude big carbon emitters from regulation by the EPA says all you need to know about right-wingers’ opinions of global warming pseudo science. Undercurrent in the writing is the author’s desperation that time for effective action is fast waning.

At the eleventh hour, when global warming becomes too serious for even right-wingers like Murkowski to ignore, what will we be able to do? At what cost?

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