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Copenhagen: the price of the atmosphere : Comments
By Andrew Glikson, published 31/12/2009A denial campaign waged by contrarians supported by fossil fuel interests is holding the world to ransom.
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The last thing that we wanted was an agreement which basically meant the continuation of business as usual with piffling and meaningless reductions in CO2 emissions.
Such a deal would have had a big placating effect. At least without any deal, the level of concern remains right up there, with the urgency even more heightened in the minds of the world's decision-makers and those that influence them.
So now the trick is to make this count for something.
What's the chance of that? Tiny, but certainly better than if Copenhagen had produced some pretend-to-be-concerned-about-climate-change deal.