Analysis: Time growing short for ’seizing historic opportunity’ and climate deal in December

UNITED NATIONS — The man from the middle of the Indian Ocean, from one of the tiniest of nations, told his fellow presidents he knew “you are not really listening.”
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They heard from Nasheed and leaders of other states threatened with flooding, drought and other expected impacts of a warming world. “If things go as usual, we will not live. We will die,” the Maldivian said of his low-lying islands, a nation of 300,000 people.

Terence Corcoran: Growth first, climate later - Full Comment

The reason for all the foot-dragging leading up to Copenhagen is a growing realization that the radical carbon reduction targets are unreasonable and unattainable.

President Clinton Tackles Climate and Other Big Problems at Opening of CGI | ecopolitology

To quote the man of the hour, WJC: “If we do it right, we will still have created a new economy, made growth more democratic, created new jobs, and pulled us out of a financial tail spin. And that’s even IF THE SCIENCE IS WRONG! (which isn’t a rabbit hole to go down right now)

Obama Disappoints NBC for ‘Falling Short’ on ‘Climate Change,’ Fret Expectations ‘Dashed’

A lover’s quarrel emerged Tuesday night in the media’s love affair with President Barack Obama. He disappointed NBC by failing, at the UN’s “Summit on Climate Change,” to go far enough on global warming. “President Obama’s being accused of falling short on the environment today with the whole world watching,”…