The Failure at Copenhagen
by Barry Piacenza
Climate Change Economics LLC - December 27, 2010
The failure of Copenhagen has not changed the science of climate change. The facts remain.
The reality is unchanged.
The outcome is not only a failure for mankind it is a failure for every living being on the planet.
This stakes are greater than any national, state and or monetary, financial and or political system -
for it is life itself that is at stake.
If we wait until Shanghai, New York, Miami, Amsterdam, other cities and nations are flooded it will be too
late.
It may be too late as I write this now.
No amount of gold, paper money or economic system is worth destroying a world.
Some might hail Copenhagen as a starting point. It is a defeat based on national interests, because the science
shows that climate change is more rapidly advancing than anyone in the policy arena understands or realizes.
It is not a question if we wait, our nation is so large we will prevail; prevailing at what cost and what
outcome, verification is necessary - as former United States President Ronald Reagan said “ trust but verify”-
it is essential -with out metrics there are no guarantees other than idle promises made by political officials
that goals and commitments actually are being accomplished. Hollow is as hollow does - the peric victory of the
Kahn in the thousand dollar suit is meaningless. Unless nations immediately reconvene and come to a conclusion
in 2010 at Mexico, or before, the planet itself will be irrevocably changed by mankind who will become another
victim of species extinction.
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