Amidst all the gloom, let’s not miss some really good news. From the Guardian, “Global deal on climate change in 2010 ‘all but impossible.’”

A global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the negotiations.

“The forces trying to tackle climate change are in disarray, wandering in small groups around the battlefield like a beaten army,” said a senior British diplomat.

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The current UNFCCC [UN framework convention on climate change] impasse was described to the Guardian as “paralysis” and even its head, Yvo de Boer, has talked of a “cooling off period” after Copenhagen. Last night’s deadline for nations to submit their domestic targets is expected to have attracted about 25-30 responses, though De Boer had already fudged it. “You can describe it as a soft deadline,” he said. [Ha! -ed]

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The diplomatic traumas suffered by China in Copenhagen, where Beijing took much of the blame for the summit’s failure, has hardened opinions, said Li Yan, Greenpeace China’s climate campaigner: “Now there are stronger conservative voices and more concerns about the changed diplomatic circumstances and the economic downturn.”

In the nervy run-up to Copenhagen, a senior British diplomat warned: “We can go into extra time, but we can’t afford a replay.” At the end of the chaotic summit, that replay, set for Mexico in November, was seen as a good result, given how close the entire show came to collapsing.

But six weeks since the summit reached its conclusion, senior figures around the world do not believe the rematch is even likely to be played.

And all of the above doesn’t even get into all the stories of the ever-collapsing evidence and ever-more-discredited research.

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