Quagmire!
Alternate title: U.S. out of Copenhagen!
COPENHAGEN — The Copenhagen climate change conference appeared to be imploding from within and exploding from without on Wednesday.
Police fired tear gas, brandished batons and detained more than 200 protesters who tried to push through the security cordon around the Bella Center, as negotiations inside bogged down, for the second time this week, over differences between China and the West over emissions, funding issues and transparency.
“People around the world [are] actually expecting something to be done from us,” red-faced Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen lectured delegates from nearly 200 nations.
Y’know, if this was Congress or my own state legislature, I’d say: yay! They’re not accomplishing anything!
But this being a U.N. event, the odds that they would ever accomplish anything were virtually nil anyway. Other than posing for holy pictures and spewing tons upon tons of carbon into the air, that is. So the “news” that they aren’t accomplishing anything is leaving me somewhat deflated.
Via Memeorandum.
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