AND YOU THOUGHT THE 2 DEGREE BIT WAS ASININE?:

Copenhagen climate change talks stall: Vital hours lost over claim Kyoto treaty being killed (John Vidal, Suzanne Goldenberg and Jonathan Watts, 12/15/09, The Guardian)

A fraught day in Copenhagen yesterday saw disputes cause the loss of five vital hours of negotiating time and the UN and Danish organisers accused of sidelining developing nations by holding informal consultations with selected countries.

"The disaster has already begun because we have not closed the gap an inch. We have not moved," a senior Asian negotiator said. "We are just trying to paste over it with political rhetoric."

It doesn't hold a candle to the notion of "five vital hours."

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 14, 2009 8:29 PM