COP15 Copenhagen
It is now day 10 of the conference and things have turned out quite badly.
There seems to be little prospect of a meaningful deal. The USA will not sign up to Kyoto; the developing world will sign up to Kyoto extensions only. It looks like they’ll have another meeting in 6 months in Mexico. Up there with USA is Canada with its “tar sands” extraction of oil at enormous expense.
The only long-term solution is to use only as much energy as can be extracted from energy arrivin
g from the Sun. This includes solar panels, wind farms and hydro. [ The Sun creates the wind and couds which are the source of hydro ]. In the meantime it is possible that we shall carry on burning fossil fuels until they just run out. Sad but true.
The pre-meeting hack of the Climatic Research Unit emails and files seems to have died down apart from in the hard denier community. It certainly looks to me like the climate scientists make poor software engineers.