No-hope-in-hagen

  In the early hours of December 19, a giant balloon of hot air appeared over Copenhagen, as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came to an end. For two weeks the conference’s odd 15,000 participants had talked and talked and talked, yet were unable to reach an agreement. And thus the stage was set for “Our Savior” — United States President Barack Obama — on the very last day, to bang out a deal that utterly lacked in substance and ambition. Tellingly, while most of the 115 world leaders had not even read the text, the White House was the first to announce that a historic agreement had been reached. Shortly after, Obama appeared on television to explain to his dear citizens that the US, China, Brazil, India and South Africa had agreed to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius. But he did not