Well you got that right Joe, they all showed up in their private jets and ran enough air conditioning to freeze meat. Did they decide what the “normal” climate should be? Did they explain past warming and cooling cycles? No, they just ragged on developed countries and had their greedy hands out for more money.

It is expected that most countries will meet their targets.

http://www.ipsnews.net/columns.asp?idnews=40498

The United Nations Conference on Climate Change was only a necessary first step along what will be a rough road to agreement on the cooperative measures required to bring the risks of climate change under control. The last minute compromise to establish a continuing negotiating process was only reached on a weakened and watered-down basis, writes Maurice Strong, secretary-general of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment and the first executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

In this analysis, Strong writes that we must treat the dangers of climate change as a security issue, the most important threat to global security we will ever face.

The author calls for establishment of a Climate Security Fund of $1,000,000,000,000 to be financed by those countries that have contributed most to cumulative emissions. The Fund would be utilised to assist developing countries to reduce the growth of their emissions and adapt to adverse conditions resulting from already irreversible changes.

The kind of climate security regime that would result from these and other indispensable measures goes well beyond Bali and what is considered realistic by most under today’s conditions, but are imperative if we are to secure the conditions that support life as we know it

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Maurice Strong is an interesting guy, ever Google him?

Also, you might like this GloGov (Global Governance Project) site -

http://www.glogov.org