It's the same editorial being used around the world as leaders prepare for the Copenhagen talks. One - yes one - newspaper in the US participated. What a pathetic joke though it shows just how powerful the teabagging, anti-science crowd has become in the US. John had an interesting post yesterday about how these groups work to manufacture doubt. How exactly does a country show leadership in the world when there's such a rejection of the modern world? The teabaggers don't care if the US is the laughing stock of the world, as long as they have their Bible.
Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and half-hearted.
