Live at Copenhagen: Left Out in the Cold
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The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on The Foundry and at the Copenhagen Consequences Web site.
The main impression of many attendees at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen is just how poorly organized it all is. The check in time for non-governmental delegates (like Heritage’s attendees) on December 14 was over 8 hours. Hundreds had to wait for hours outside, where global warming has had no apparent impact on December Copenhagen temperatures, and many never even got in.
Mind you, this conference was two years in the making, and these delegates had already gone through a time-consuming application process in the months before the conference. Worse, the conference is less well attended than anticipated earlier this year, when expectations were higher for a major deal.
The UN is doing a terrible job handing this conference – and now it wants to all but run the U.S. and world economies.