gerard:
I’d agree with your argument, if I agreed with all of your premises, which I don’t. Despite the religious conviction with which you accept the sources and dangers of increasing greenhouse gases, the latest brouhahas in the climate science community clear show that the jury is out. I myself am an agnostic on the issue.

Where I do get a little fringy is in my strong suspicion that this entire Copenhagen, etc movement is just an effort to transfer wealth from rich countries to poor ones under the guise of improving the climate. The “Global South” doesn’t give a flying fuck about polar bears. They do however want our and Russia’s and China’s money.

hello. my holdout is for India to be the developing turning point away from fossil fuel dependency. if they take the lead beyond our central and south American biofuel advocates, and shift all technologies into the clean energy of hydrogen or solar energies, all the ‘crap and fade’, of developing countries with their hands out over global warming, will redouble against the oil conglomerates instead of American tax payers. meanwhile oil prices rise for the next election campaigns.

Of course if they start having regular meetings to discuss and agree upon specific recommendations or demands for climate change, the small “developing” countries will succeed in raising enough of an outcry, with the help of the more enlightened European Union, to make the huge polluting,
“developed” countries look even worse than they look already.
  China, U.S., Russia, fess up.  You don’t want change that would interfere with your “development,” even though it endangers everybody else along with yourselves. You would prefer to ignore these smaller countries who already suffer the creeping edges of global warming so you can keep on producing greenhouse gases till you yourselves start choking to death.
  What is so sinister is that you three biggies are the ones who think of yourselves as the best-educated, the most “advanced,” the most productive and powerful, but are also the ones who produce the most greenhouse gas pollution.  Yet you think you deserve to determine the future of life on earth by back-pedalling on actions that could prevent this looming disaster. 
  Ironically, it is you, and you alone who can provide the funds and the technologies to turn things around. So you have the world by the throat.  So what do you gain by that?  Your leadership would make all the difference! What are you really waiting for?