Copenhagen summit ends in blood,
sweat and recrimination
Gordon Brown and Barack Obama did their best to put a positive spin on it, but Copenhagen was a disaster, writes Andrew Gilligan.
"I feel I've played a part in bringing countries together," said the Prime Minister, in a line clearly prepared long before the disaster unfolding around him.
For even as he spoke, international unity was falling apart – and the emotional temperature inside the conference centre was already rising to levels beyond even the most doom-laden forecasts of the global-warming lobby.
Tim Jones, of the World Development Movement, called it a "shameful and monumental failure, devoid of real content. The leaders of rich countries have refused to lead and history will judge them harshly." Greenpeace's John Sauven said Copenhagen was a "crime scene, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport".
Some even saw the President as an active obstacle to a real agreement – alienating the Chinese with a demand for inspections, which he then effectively retracted. For all the efforts of Obama's people to present him as key to a deal, his reputation suffered in Copenhagen – along with many other totems of idealism.
the climate change agenda itself, already reeling from the "Climategate" email leaks, took a major blow.
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Don't get me wrong, I am not advocating the destruction of the world as we know it. I'll leave that to Obummer and the Goracle. Personally, I keep my thermostat at a cool 60 and I drive as little as possible. I'd just as soon not give my money to the oil robber barons in either case.
If you really want to be concerned about something, ask why the oil companies are buying up every square foot of land with water on it and all the water rights they can get their grimy hands on.
That is something to be concerned about.
Oil, Water Are Volatile Mix in West
Oil companies have gained control over billions of gallons of water from Western rivers.The group, Western Resource Advocates, used public records to conclude that energy companies are collectively entitled to divert more than 6.5 billion gallons of water a day during peak river flows. The companies also hold rights to store, in dozens of reservoirs, 1.7 million acre feet of water, enough to supply metro Denver for six years.
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