The case for climate action must be remade from the ground upwards (comment)

UNFCCC: Climate Change Headlines • Feb 9, 2010

What a difference three months makes. Back in November, the world broadly agreed that emissions of carbon dioxide were heating up the planet and that we needed to do something about it, even ifwe couldn't agree exactly what. And though we'd had the usual pre-summit rollercoaster ride of dire predictions and naive exhortations (yes, I plead guilty to some of those), even hardheaded types dared to hope that Copenhagen might produce the basis of a global climate treaty. Now, with climate science under siege and climate politics in disarray, that sounds like the rhetoric of another age. The American commentator… Full Story »