Copenhagen will be a bust for climate change By Ian Bremmer | The Call

It's becoming increasingly clear that the demands of domestic politics in several key countries ensure that there isn't going to be a substantive treaty agreement on climate change from December's Copenhagen summit. No government will want the blame --but Washington is the most likely to take a diplomatic black eye.
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In Copenhagen, [Obama's] negotiators will likely offer broadly defined targets for global emissions reductions, saving the details for a future gathering, when he has a better sense of what he can sell at home. That won't prevent the summit from becoming a major foreign-policy setback for a president whom many around the world would really like to embrace.

June '08: Althouse: "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Most megalomaniacal line in Barack Obama's speech last night. We laughed a lot.

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