So what’s to talk about at Cancun now?

Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"The world’s climate negotiations in Cancun were faced with deadlock at their outset yesterday after Japan insisted it would not agree to renewing the Kyoto Protocol, the current treaty under which rich countries are cutting their emissions of greenhouse gases. ....Sounds definitive to me. So Indian and China won’t sign a deal which restricts their emissions, and the US and Japan won’t sign one that won’t.

And still we hear this babble in Australia about an international deal being in the offing. "