negotiations for a global treaty to stabilize the climate aren’t going so well.

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In fact, little more than a year out from the December 2015 deadline for signing a deal, countries can’t even agree on a fundamental approach to curbing heat-trapping greenhouse emissions.

One option is a binding treaty that mandates a clear target for reducing overall emissions and assigns each country a fair share of the work. The second option is a nonbinding “pledge and review” process by which each nation records what pollution cuts it thinks it can make. According to this plan, we’d add up those pledges, hope they’re enough to avoid climate chaos, and come back in a few years to see how governments have done.

The United States is the primary proponent of the latter option, for the record.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/181675/while-we-march-climate-governments-meet-polluters

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1. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

Not

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2. Yeah. No one could have expected this

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3. We will continue putting econimical supremacy before ecological sustainablty

until the economy collapses with the climate system, and out leadership will throw up their arms and say, "How could we have known?"