The green message has failed. Where now for climate politics? - Public Service

The green message alone has failed. It is all to easy to scream from the roof tops about coming catastrophes, yet in the midst of a great crisis people are understandably less inclined to think about future generations. The scientific misdemeanours and misplaced certainty over the magnitude of the problem hurt, but more fundamentally the message was too idealistic and the core principles became muddled with that of environmentalism.

The Ever-Growing Human Cost of China’s Coal - Ecocentric - TIME.com

As recently as 2007, China was still consuming 41% of the world's coal, and as of 2005, nearly 63% of the nation's energy demand was coal. Demand for coal is only projected to go up from here — in a recent report from the Pew Center for Climate Change, it could be triple its coal power capacity from 2005 numbers to 2030.

Despite Faltering Climate [Hoax] Talks, Yvo de Boer [Allegedly] Departs an Optimist by Elizabeth Kolbert: Yale Environment 360

Yvo de Boer: Well, I certainly hope we’re not going to wait until there is a disaster [so de Boer doesn't blame CO2 for Katrina?] because, as you rightly say, then it will be too late. Sometimes international climate policy reminds me a little bit of the frog in water that gets hotter and hotter, and the frog doesn’t notice until it’s too late. If we let things get out of control and are already confronted by extreme impacts of climate change, then it really will be too late.
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I don’t know how many times in every decade you would need to double the size of the Chinese rail network to move enough coal across the country to keep the current model surviving.