2011 Offers Little Cheer for Those Battling Climate Change - NYTimes.com

“I’m pessimistic about this international process,” said Jurgen Weiss, a principal at Brattle Group, a consulting firm based in Massachusetts. The Cancún agreement was not legally binding, so while vows to limit the planet’s warming to a modest amount are all very well, Mr. Weiss said, it would be “utterly shocking if these things remain more than just words.”