Cow's Arse/Banjo Interface Problem

I've managed to mostly avoid mentioning Copenhagen in the last two weeks. In truth, my shifts have meant I haven't been following as closely as I'd like to have been.

But what I have been following has been through gritted teeth.

It seems to me that not only has the world missed a spectacular opportunity to do the right thing, they've deliberately missed that opportunity.

Because they haven't been negotiating a reduction in emissions, they've been negotiating how much pollution they can get away with.

As the BBC's Richard Black says about the draft "political agreement", the product of two years of negotiating:

What we have, we're told, doesn't contain a commitment to a legally-binding treaty, doesn't endorse an explicit temperature target, doesn't have a target date for finalising a deal, and doesn't any more aim for emission curbs to be verifiable.

There's still a couple of hours of negotiating to be done, but I'm not hopeful. Never before has "Suitably Despairing" so lived up to it's name.