India and China Stall

The latest news from the plenary session in Bali is that European countries moved a lot, and the U.S. moved a little, toward agreement. India and China disagree with parts of the text and this has stalled a final agreement.

However, I described this earlier as a planned U.S. strategy to shift the blame for failure to reach agreement to China and India. Language was inserted last minute, by the U.S. that caused India and China to pull back.

It’s a game of hardball…. played behind closed doors by the U.S. It’s a lose/lose game. Nature loses. And the scientific urgency which brought 190 countries to the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali has been ignored.

Last Spring, I gave a lecture at the University of Colorado in which I outlined the lack of status scientists and environmentalists have had over the past 25 years in the U.S. Their increasingly loud cries of alarm were ignored from the Regan Years to the present.

According to Environmental Defense Fund lawyers, acknowledgement of scientific findings was only permitted by agencies of the Bush Admininstration two years ago. Prior to 2005, U.S. agencies were not allowed to comment on the science, or show cause for concern.