AND NO COMMITMENT TO BLOW UP THE SUN:

Disappointments on Climate: A week that could have brought important progress on climate change ended in disappointment. (Der Spiegel, 12/17/07)

From the United States the delegates got nothing, except a promise to participate in the forthcoming negotiations. Even prying that out of the Bush administration required enormous effort.

Despite pleas from their European allies, the Americans flatly rejected the idea of setting even provisional targets for reductions in greenhouse gases. And they refused to give what the rest of the world wanted most: an unambiguous commitment to reducing America's own emissions. Without that, there is little hope that other large emitters, including China, will change their ways.