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A Year Wasted

The debate in governments over the science ended this year.

The debate among economists over the costs and benefits ended this year.

And we even learned where the human damage will be the greatest, and the ability to mitigate also the least, not the circumpolar regions, but sub-saharan Africa.

But the 12th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) yeilded precious little in committments -- a rejection from the US and Australia, distance from the positions of the prior government from Canada.

Collectively we're OK with Truth. Inconvenience needs much more work.