With the science under siege and the politics in disarray, it may fall to civil society to keep this still crucial fight alive Ian Katz guardian.co.uk 8 February 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 if we couldn't agree exactly what. And though we'd had the usual pre-summit rollercoaster ride of dire predictions and naive exhortati... [Read Post]
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