James Hansen: Good Riddance, Copenhagen. Time for Better Ideas.

The proposals discussed in Copenhagen were like the indulgences of the Middle Ages. The sinners are the developed countries, which are responsible for most of the excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. They want to continue business as usual, by buying off the developing countries.

If developing countries can get a hundred billion dollars a year, that’s enormously attractive. But both parties are thumbing their noses at young people and future generations.

The hundred billion dollars a year