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After two weeks of increasingly ill-tempered negotiations, one of the European delegates at the Copenhagen summit “to save the planet” had clearly reached breaking point; or perhaps it was the ingratitude of the people he was trying to save that caused this negotiator to tell the BBC’s science correspondent, Susan Watts, that millions of Africans now “deserve” to be incinerated.
The fact that CO2 and methane concentrations have passed the threshold of 400ppm is of the most enormous significance. It means we have entered a new era – the era of dangerous climate change.
We have reached the point where our children
can no longer be promised a safe climate.
The most urgent outcomes of a 2°C rise, which is now at the low end of what is expected, and without even considering the devastation of triggering even one of the climate tipping points, would be:
Like businessmen who insist a deal is legit, politicians protesting they have done something “meaningful” arouse suspicions that the opposite is in fact true. And “meaningful” was about the best word the spin doctors could muster in respect of the agreement of sorts that was brokered in Copenhagen late last night.
A delegate sleeps as negotiators worked through the night to form a draft text at the Copenhagen summit. Photograph: Bob Strong/Reuters
National leaders and sleep-deprived negotiators thrashed out a text late last night that could determine the balance of power in the world and possibly the future of our species. The list below gives a breakdown of the key points:
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Source. The Guardian.
While Copenhagen may fall far short of the deal we need, leaders know voters are not prepared to change their lifestyles
Despair is not acceptable, but it may be inevitable. Social democrats are the world’s optimists, knowing human destiny is in our own hands if we have the will to change. Leave pessimism to the world’s conservatives, ever fearful of the future and yearning for a better yesterday. But today optimism feels impossible. The chance of world leaders preventing a more than 2C increase in temperature looks vanishingly small.
Politics is being weighed in the balance and found wanting. The writing is on the wall. The leadership required within and between each nation is heavier lifting that the weak machinery of governmental power can manage. Most leaders in Copenhagen were out ahead of their people. Most understand the crisis better than those they represent, promising more sacrifice than their citizens are yet ready to accept – while no doubt praying for some miraculous technological escape. This is the way the world ends, in communiques expressing insufficient commitment.